Five cubans jailed by the US in 2001 are the subject of full page appeals by around 130 celebrities in two of the UK's biggest national newspapers. In Cuba they are seen as national heroes but Cuban exiles in the US...
The Reverend Richard Hart, who became notorious in the UK after 56,000 images of child pornography were discovered on his computer, has today started his prison sentence. On the same day, a charity has used the opportunity to warn that child pornography is currently growing...
A hopeful indication of the future?"Israel freed 198 Palestinian prisoners today amid scenes of jubilation in the West Bank as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew in to try and salvage a stagnating...
The eight Americans detained for pro-Tibet protests during the Olympic Games have been released today. American officials had been lobbying for their release over the weekend.Six of the detainees belonged to the group Free Tibet Reporters, and two were members of Students for...
Oh how I love this fairy tale, but the guys got porridge now, what a nut case falling to sleep on the job. Any way his punishment is a hard bed in small cell. Can you imagine what his cell mates will say and now that embarising nick name Goldilocks. "There was no porridge on...
This 20-month old boy surely unlucky to have such an experienced. His brain will record this incident and could cause him a trauma. " The parents of the 20-month-old boy had become concerned about the behaviour of...
It seems like naked hiking would be terribly uncomfortable, since backpack chafing is a problem even while wearing a shirt.This story got front page coverage in Russia's Pravda.ru. Human interest at its best."Ten...
A man who made so much money from shoplifting that he was able to afford a "lavish lifestyle" has been jailed in the UK. They had evenr ented a flat in London's upmarket Knightsbridge neighborhood that cost 1,000 pounds per week."A Briton dubbed the "millionaire shoplifter"...
What a lot of trouble they went to! They must have been desperate. Stupid, but desparate."John and Anne Darwin were each jailed for more than six years today for carrying out a £250,000 con by faking his death...
"Nelson Mandela, who was instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa and rose from prisoner to president, is celebrating his 90th birthday. After a series of public appearances around the world over the past few...
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"A FORMER federal policeman has been jailed for five months on child pornography charges by a magistrate who said a ruined career and community ridicule were not punishment enough. Michael Edward Hatch, 38,...
"AN Adelaide man who cruelly mocked dying toddler David Mamo has been jailed for more than 11 years - but no one will ever face justice for the boy's murder. David John Partridge, 30, taunted the three-year old...
A tribal man in India rescued an abandoned bear cub for his daughter to help her overcome her mother's death, but has now had the cub taken away from him by forestry officials because he is breaking the rules."They...
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" The partner of a man who tried to carry out a suicide bombing in London in July 2005 was jailed for 15 years on Thursday after she was convicted of not telling authorities about the plot and helping him escape. Yeshiemebet Girma, 32, was the partner of Hussein Osman, one...
"Singapore (ANTARA News/dpa) - A couple who fined their Indonesian maid for mistakes in addition to physically abusing the woman was sentenced to jail, news reports said on Wednesday.Lim Yi Khung, a 42-year-old aircraft engineer for Singapore Airlines, was sentenced to four...