Archive for April 2008

Sir Ian Blair

Met Chief Sir Ian Blair could be among 31,000 officers to receive the new electronic tracking device

Every single Metropolitan police officer will be ‘microchipped’ so top… Continue reading

Tuesday’s Washington Post reports that FBI investigators “with the click of a mouse, [can] instantly transfer key data along a computer circuit to an FBI technology office in Quantico.”

Last… Continue reading

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News 4 has obtained video of teenagers attacking another teenage girl in Florida. Eight teens were arrested for

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A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a… Continue reading

Homeland Security Committee members fault Chertoff for delaying legal framework for new office

A controversial plan that would allow domestic law enforcement agencies to use data gathered by US spy satellites still lacks necessary… Continue reading

An Australian man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in jail for shining a laser pointer at a police helicopter and temporarily blinding the pilot.
Lanfranco Baldetti, 23, pleaded guilty to prejudicing the safe operation… Continue reading

FBI also spies on home soil for military, documents show; Much information acquired without court order

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of… Continue reading

A father and daughter confessed on television last night to spending seven years in a sexual relationship and conceiving two children.

Jenny Deaves told how she was reunited with her long-lost father, John, 30… Continue reading

Disgraced: The soldiers have brought shame on the Lancaster Regiment

An investigation has been launched after a 15-year-old girl was smuggled on to an Army base and filmed having “roasting” sex session with up to… Continue reading

Christopher Lumsden could now inherit £2.4 million from his wife’s estate

A lawyer who killed his wife in a frenzied knife attack has been freed early after serving less than… Continue reading

A man faces five years in jail after being accused of assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog.

William Singalargh, 27, is said to have thrown the hedgehog from 15ft away during a row with… Continue reading

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Detroit police say a 3-year-old girl found a hand gun in a bedroom at her west side home and shot herself in the head. She was reported in… Continue reading

More than 10,000 schools will close when Britain’s biggest teachers’ union, the NUT, stages a one-day strike later this month, according to a national survey published yesterday.

And headteachers’ leaders have warned that they… Continue reading

“This is the new face of hunger,” said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN’s World Food Programme, launching an appeal for an extra $500 million so it could continue supplying food aid… Continue reading

A German man is suing medical staff after a pair of 15-inch long surgical clamps was left inside his abdomen during a routine operation.

Norbert Pohl went into hospital last year for a… Continue reading

A Mexican man who once weighed half a ton is looking forward to the simple things in life after shedding half his body weight.

Manuel Uribe, 42, of Monterrey, Mexico, reached a peak weight… Continue reading

A prominent Health Organization has warned that there is an ongoing semi-covert movement by state and federal governments to claim ownership of every newborn baby’s DNA for the purpose of genetic research… Continue reading

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Thomas Beatie

A married man who used to be a woman says that he is pregnant and will give birth to a baby girl in July.

“How does it feel to be… Continue reading

Back in the early 80s, a fellow senate staff member darkly warned me of the consequences to “the American Financial System” if we didn’t bail out the NY banks from their failed Latin… Continue reading

What started as a local debate of relative benefits for public health versus views of governmental interference in private lives has escalated into a confrontation between local citizens’ groups and Los Angeles County… Continue reading

East St. Louis police are investigating the suspicious death of a two year old boy. His 4-year-old brother is suspected of killing him

The International Monetary fund has slashed odds that the world is facing a financial recession and admits that the U.S. is in its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, as the… Continue reading

A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up

More than 23,000 elderly people with Alzheimer’s could be dying prematurely in care homes each year after being given drugs to keep them quiet, a report claims today.

Anti-psychotic drugs, which are… Continue reading

Two young sisters found a woman’s head hidden in a plastic bag as they played on a beach yesterday.The girls, aged around five and thought to be on their Easter holidays, came across… Continue reading

PARENTS who fail to send their children to school could be jailed for up to two years, under draconian new anti-truancy laws to be introduced to parliament today.

For the first time, powers… Continue reading

Among the many milestones in Don Zirkel’s life - serving in the Army; editing The Tablet, the Diocese of Brooklyn’s newspaper; and working in the state Division of Human Rights under Gov. Mario… Continue reading

It was the shocking video that caused outrage and led to calls for YouTube to vet all its content.The three-minute clip, filmed on a mobile phone, apparently showed a young and unconscious mother… Continue reading

Her frame was so skeletal that doctors warned Hayley Wilde she was just over a week away from death.But three years on, after an eight-year battle against anorexia, she has bounced back in… Continue reading