Researchers from the University of South Florida are exhuming remains from the bodies of 19 long-lost residents of the infamous Dozier Reform School for Boys in the Florida Panhandle. “Even if we can’t name them, just the fact that they’re not lost, with trees growing through...
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Human bones found at infamous Florida reform school
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Pakistan orders fresh murder charges against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan police on Monday registered murder charges against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the death of a radical cleric during the siege of a mosque in 2007. It is the latest in a series of charges dating back to Musharraf’s 1999-2008 rule, which the retired...
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French lawmakers ‘to see proof Syria regime behind attack’
France will hand over evidence to lawmakers on Monday proving President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was behind last month’s chemical weapons attack in Syria, a government source told AFP. “It will be a set of evidence of different kinds that will allow the regime to be clearly...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom plans to launch new political party in New Zealand
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom announced Monday he will launch a political party in New Zealand to contest next year’s elections, drawing a scornful response from Prime Minister John Key. Dotcom said his plans were still embryonic but the yet-to-be-named party would launch on January 20, the...
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Monster crocodile traps tourist on Australian island
A tourist has had a lucky escape after being trapped on a remote Australian island for two weeks by a monster six-metre (20-foot) crocodile, reports said Monday. The New Zealander, identified only as Ryan, was dropped with his kayak on Governor Island off Western Australia’s far north by boat...
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Angry mob castrates Papua New Guinea’s cult leader ‘Black Jesus’
An infamous Papua New Guinea cult leader known as “Black Jesus” was castrated by an angry mob after being hacked to death for killing young girls as sacrifices, reports said Monday. Steven Tari, a convicted rapist who was suspected of cannibalism, was killed in a remote PNG village last...
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‘Ugly Betty’ drug cartel leader captured by Mexican police
Mexican police have detained the alleged leader of the New Juarez Cartel, a 47-year-old man known as “Ugly Betty,” authorities said. Alberto Carrillo Fuentes was arrested by federal police in the western state of Nayarit and he was later questioned by prosecutors, an official from the...
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One fifth of CIA job applicants with suspect backgrounds have ‘significant terrorist’ connections: Washington Post
Al-Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to infiltrate US intelligence agencies, which are investigating thousands of their employees to counter the threat, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The CIA found that about a fifth of job applicants with suspect backgrounds had...
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Tuberculosis followed early humans out of Africa 70,000 years ago: study
One of the largest genetic investigations into the microbe which causes TB shows the germ followed early humans out of Africa at least 70,000 years ago, scientists say. In a parallel probe, investigators also said they had identified 39 new genes that drive dangerous drug resistance in this germ,...
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Fukushima radioactive plume to hit the U.S. by early 2014
The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the United States sometime in 2014, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales — a full three or so…
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Three Massachusetts high school soccer players arrested for rape
Three high school soccer players were arrested and charged with the sexual assault of three victims at a campground in Otis, Massachusetts. According to the Boston Globe, 17-year-old Galileo Mondol and two 16-year-olds allegedly entered the freshman cabin at Camp Lenox and carried out a sexual...
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Hagel and Kerry to make case to Congress for attacking Syria: Failing to act ‘unravels the deterrent impact of the international norm against chemical weapons use’
The US secretaries of state and defense go before a Senate panel seeking support to attack Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons, warning failure to do so might embolden Hezbollah and Iran. In what will be one of the most high-profile political set pieces in Washington in weeks, John Kerry...
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Dennis Rodman heads back to North Korea to see ‘friend’ Kim Jong-Un
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman Tuesday said he was heading back to Pyongyang to see his “friend”, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, but refused to say if he would come back with an imprisoned US citizen. Korean-American Kenneth Bae, 44, has been held prisoner in the North since November,...
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U.S. steps up Pakistan surveillance: Washington Post ‘black budget’ analysis
While US intelligence agencies spend billions monitoring enemies like Al-Qaeda and Iran, they pay just as much as attention to ally Pakistan, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The United States has intensified surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, is concerned about biological and...
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UK troops deny mutilating Iraq insurgents’ corpses
British army officials have dismissed “baseless rumours” that troops mutilated the bodies of dead Iraqi insurgents after a 2004 battle, as a public inquiry heard its first evidence from military witnesses. The Al-Sweady Inquiry is investigating claims that British troops committed human...
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Japan unveils $500 million ice wall plan for Fukushima water leaks
Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the government elbowed the operator aside. Acknowledging global concerns over a so-far “haphazard” management of the crisis by...
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Verdicts in New Delhi gang-rape trial due next week
The judge in the trial of four men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus last December announced Tuesday he would deliver his verdicts on September 10. The trial began in a “fast-track” court in the capital in February with the prosecution laying out evidence...
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Nazi war crimes investigation in Germany to examine 30 former Auschwitz personnel
The German office investigating Nazi war crimes said Tuesday it would send files on 30 former Auschwitz death camp personnel to state prosecutors with a recommendation to pursue charges. Chief investigator Kurt Schrimm told reporters that the suspects were former Auschwitz guards now aged up to 97...
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Egyptian court orders Al Jazeera and other news outlets to close down
A Cairo court Tuesday ordered the closure of four television channels, including Al-Jazeera Egypt and Ahrar 25, a network belonging to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. The other two channels to be closed are the Islamist broadcasters Al-Yarmuk and Al-Quds, according to the court order. The closure...
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McCain laughs as he mocks Laura Ingraham’s ‘vast knowledge of military tactics’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Monday mocked conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s “vast knowledge of military tactics” and then smacked down Fox News host Brian Kilmeade for opposing religious Muslim fighters, but not Christian soldiers. During an appearance on Fox & Friends...
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