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| North Korea says U.S. citizen Merrill E. Newman is a criminal, arrested for hostile acts Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:10 PM PST  North Korea said on Saturday it had arrested U.S. citizen Merrill E. Newman for "hostile acts" against the state and accused him of being "a criminal" who was involved in the killing of civilians during the 1950-53 Korean War. Newman "masterminded espionage and subversive activities against the DPRK and in this course he was involved in killings of service personnel of the Korean People's Army and innocent civilians," the North's official KCNA news agency said. DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Full Story | Top |
| Nigerian-Lebanese sentenced to life for arms cache Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:38 AM PST ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Federal High Court has sentenced a Nigerian-Lebanese accused of belonging to Hezbollah to two terms of life imprisonment for an arms cache hidden in a concrete bunker under a home in the country's troubled north. Full Story | Top |
| German cop arrested over cannibalism website murder Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:00 AM PST  A German police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man whom he met on an Internet site for cannibalism fetishists, authorities said Friday. The 55-year-old had confessed to slashing the throat of his willing victim and then cutting his body into small pieces and burying them in his garden, police said. But there was no evidence that the suspect, identified by media as police officer Detlev G. of the eastern state of Saxony, had eaten any of the body parts of his victim, prosecutors said. The victim, a 59-year-old man from Hanover, Lower Saxony, had "since his youth fantasised about being murdered and eaten," Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll told a press conference. Full Story | Top |
| German police officer arrested over killing Friday, Nov 29, 2013 05:56 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — A German police officer has been arrested on suspicion of killing and chopping up a man he met on the Internet who had long fantasized about being killed and eaten, authorities said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Man Arrested More Than 1,250 Times in Jail Again Friday, Nov 29, 2013 05:47 AM PST  Henry Earl, the man who has been arrested more than 1,250 times, spent another Thanksgiving in jail. Earl, crowned the "World's Most Arrested Man" by The Smoking Gun, was most recently arrested on Oct. 4 for public intoxication in Lexington, Ky. According to Fayette County Detention... Full Story | Top |
| Mexico leader's anti-crime pledge tested in first year Friday, Nov 29, 2013 05:22 AM PST  Gruesome mass graves, relentless drug cartels and emerging vigilantes have put Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's pledge to reduce violence to the test in his first year in power. Pena Nieto has sought to switch world attention to economic issues since taking office on December 1, 2012, passing education, telecommunications and fiscal reforms as part of his drive to "transform" Latin America's second biggest economy. But despite his efforts to focus on the economy, security remains in the spotlight after more than 70,000 people were killed in drug violence during his predecessor's six-year term. "The numbers for these first 11 months are encouraging," Pena Nieto said on November 7. Full Story | Top |
| 'Nairobbery' grapples with pre-Christmas crime wave Friday, Nov 29, 2013 12:38 AM PST  Nairobi (AFP) - Sydney advertising executive Patrick Richer led the typical Nairobi expatriate lifestyle, living in a home in a leafy part of the city, protected by high walls and round-the-clock security. Full Story | Top |
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