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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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Visible on the east side of Interstate 94 just north of the Illinois Wisconsin border is an adults-only emporium named “Superb Video.” Read more
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The Moors murderer Ian Brady says he can pinpoint the spot where one of his victims is buried. But can you trust a serial killer – especially one who has spent 40 years playing cat and mouse with the authorities? We will be talking to the man who spoke to Brady. Also on tonight’s show [...]
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The poll was condemned after Mr Tsvangirai withdrew saying almost 90 of his supporters had been killed in systematic violence by Mugabe’s supporters. Read more
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Luke and Michael worried that they were running out of lemonade this afternoon. In the kitchen, Michael asked Luke how much lemonade they had left. After initially replying that he could see “zero” bottles, Luke later discovered that they had two bottles left. “Here’s the situation,” Luke explained. “We have two bottles of lemonade to [...]
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The International Whaling Commission on Thursday rejected a request by indigenous Greenland fishermen to kill 10 humpback whales a year. The fishermen had offered to swap rights to eight fin whales for the humpbacks. Read more
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BELGRADE, Serbia – The brutish Serbian basketball player on the lam in his homeland for beating a Brooklyn college student within an inch of his life will never be extradited back to New York, the Foreign Ministry of Serbia said yesterday. Read more
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California Democrats have been quick to criticize the latest effort to change Legislative districts — Proposition 11 on the November ballot — as unfair to minority groups throughout the state. Read more
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In what the British newspaper the Telegraph describes as “a remarkable turn-around” (also known in American political shorthand as a “flip-flop”), yesterday, George W. Bush announced that the United States will no longer regard the government of North Korea’s communist dictator, big-haired Kim Jong-il, as a sponsor of terrorism. The reason for the foreign-policy U-turn: [...]
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Ha sido un comienzo de siglo particularmente decepcionante para aquellos que promueven la integración económica de las Américas. El hemisferio parece hoy más dividido ideológicamente que en cualquier otro momento desde la Guerra Fría, lo que ha disipado cualquier esperanza de revivir la idea de un Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas, extinguida hace [...]
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MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin‘s switch from running Russia as its president to running Russia as its prime minister has changed traffic patterns here but little else. Read more
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WINDSOR CASTLE, England, June 15 — Twenty-six years after Ronald Reagan rode horses here with Queen Elizabeth II, President Bush flew to Windsor Castle on Sunday for a quick visit with the reigning monarch. Read more
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NEW DELHI — The bicycle rickshaws that weave through New Delhi’s narrow lanes have long been scorned by authorities here for congesting the city’s already fierce traffic. The creaking carriages crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses and cows. Read more
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The open Latin American/Caribbean seat on the U.N. Security Council remained vacant this evening as the 192-member General Assembly again failed to give either front-runner Guatemala or second-place Venezuela the required number of votes to break a week-long impasse. Read more
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Colombia’s Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the legitimacy of President Álvaro Uribe‘s reelection in 2006, prompting Uribe to call on Congress to enable a new presidential election that could ultimately extend his stay in office. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, June 27 — A U.S. plan to provide Mexico with a major anti-drug aid package has received congressional approval, following months of negotiations in which Mexico proved itself to be a far more assertive neighbor than in the past, according to current and former high-ranking officials in both nations. Read more
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, June 27 — President Robert Mugabe’s militias drove a frightened electorate to the polls Friday, checking off names of voters and threatening vengeance on those who failed to cast ballots for the only man ever to rule Zimbabwe. This Story PostGlobal: What Next For Zimbabwe? Voters Forced to Polls in Zimbabwe A Leader [...]
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BAGHDAD, June 26 — Two bombings in Iraq on Thursday killed at least 40 people, among them three Marines and two interpreters who were part of a civil affairs team meeting with Sunni tribal leaders, U.S. military officials said. Read more
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KYOTO, Japan, June 27 — North Korea dynamited the dirty gray cooling tower at its deactivated Yongbyon nuclear facility on Friday, a made-for-TV event intended to show the United States and the world that it is serious about abandoning its nuclear weapons program. Read more