Six shot and charred bodies, identified by local police as drug gang members were discovered dumped on a street in Tijuana, Mexico today. It seems the War on Drugs just keeps producing more bodies and does little to...
Four artists have been nominated for this year's Turner Prize, with film and sculpture dominating the nominees. "Artist Mark Leckey has been included for his solo exhibition Industrial Light & Magic, which...
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"Gun battles between rival factions of a Mexican drugs cartel have left at least 15 people dead in the city of Tijuana, near the border with the US.Police said all the dead were from the Arellano Felix cartel, which has come under pressure from a rival gang.Two were wearing...
These modern day heroes risk their lives on a daily basis to save others. And in a country where natural calamities are of the norm, the role of rescue volunteers has been placed on the limelight. For...
Off road Class 1 on the news again?Read previous story; helicopter-crash-baja-road-race "New York, March 17, 2008—Mexican
federal police arrested a member of the Arellano Félix drug cartel on
Saturday on...
Jakarta (ANTARA News/AFP) - Five of late Indonesian president Suharto's six children have appointed lawyers for their defence in a civil graft case that was originally filed against their father, a court heard Tuesday.The government had been seeking 1.4 billion dollars in...
""This request will be transferred today (Tuesday) to the Central Jakarta district court so that they can send the request to the concerned parties," said the head of the panel of judges, Wahjono.Suharto's children live in areas covered by the Central Jakarta court's...
An international evangelist, considered as the most queried man on earth today reiterated his need to face his powerful nemesis in a one-on-one debate on television live. Also counted as the most sensible preacher of our time today, his challenge is not one to be easily...
In a scene from the Godfather…
Twenty heavily-armed drug hitmen snatched the body of
a fellow trafficker from a morgue in northern Mexico after he died in a
dramatic helicopter crash, police say.
The gunmen killed two policemen as they took the corpse from the
morgue in the...
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - Hundreds gathered Friday on a beach in a remote jungle region of Nicaragua to mourn the victims of Hurricane Felix and condemn the government for doing too little to search for anyone...
UPDATE: "DAKURA, Nicaragua --
The chopper hovered for a moment. So many people below. But the
pilot landed anyway and they rushed forward, these people, homeless and
desperate. All of them, at once.
They...
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"The ocean was filled with debris, preventing a rescue mission from going ashore at Sandy Bay, Nicaragua, the village where the eye of Felix made landfall with catastrophic 160 mph winds and a storm surge estimated at 18 feet above normal tides.
From a distance, rescue teams...
Overview
The recent reversal in activity in the tropical sectors may soon translate to some fairly radical weather changes in the United States and adjacent island chains. While Hurricane Felix is...
2 x Category 5 Hurricanes have already made landfall
Hurricane Felix has stormed on the heels of Hurricane Dean, both catastrophic CAT 5 monsters. It is the first time in recorded history that two storms at the top of the scale (there is no higher scale than CAT 5)...
"Thousands of residents and tourists have been fleeing coastal areas in Central America as Hurricane Felix churns through the Caribbean.
It has weakened to a category four storm but is still packing winds of 230km/h (145mph) and is "extremely dangerous", warned...