STORY HIGHLIGHTS Mexico’s Supreme Court declares an August appeals court ruling invalid Rafael Caro Quintero, a former cartel leader, is accused of killing a DEA agent A Mexican judge overturned his conviction in a surprise ruling in August The U.S. State Department is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture Mexico’s high court has overturned a lower court ruling that freed Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro […]

Marina Oswald Porter, a 72-year-old grandmother has lived with her second husband Ken in Rockwall, Texas since the mid-Seventies She has two daughters by Oswald and a son with her second husband The assassin’s ring sold to an anonymous Texas bidder on October 24 for $108,000 – Mrs Porter will keep the proceeds Fifty years after her husband became one of the most reviled men in American history Marina Porter […]

Indian singer Manna Dey has died in a Bangalore hospital at the age of 94. Dey had been ill for the past few months and was in hospital for a respiratory infection. His funeral is due to take place later on Thursday. Born Prabodh Chandra Dey in 1919, Dey was popularly known as Manna, and was credited with several hit Bollywood songs. He sang in several languages including Hindi, Bengali, […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Erich Priebke was under house arrest at the time of his death He was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes He was convicted for his role in the massacre of 335 people in 1944 Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, who was serving a life sentence for his role in the massacre of 335 people in Italy in 1944, has died, his lawyer said Friday. Priebke, 100, […]

He describes how depression took hold after losing to Floyd Mayweather The 34-year-old tried to commit suicide with a knife on several occasions Ricky Hatton has revealed how his life became enveloped by drink and drugs – and that he came to the brink of suicide several times. The former boxer admits that depression took hold after he lost his first-ever boxing match, to Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas in […]

International police body Interpol has issued a wanted persons notice for Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, at Kenya’s request. Ms Lewthwaite, 29, is the widow of one of the four suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July 2005. Known colloquially as the “white widow”, she has been linked with Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab. The group was behind the attack on the Westgate shopping complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, at […]

The fishermen brought the giant fish to the Karachi Fish Harbour and claimed to have found it dead in the open sea. Some experts believe that the shark might have been killed after it got entangled in a net, a Pakistan daily reported. The whale shark was taken out of the channel with the help of two cranes amid rapturous applause by hundreds of onlookers. “I have bought the fish, […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Srey Powers, a former Khmer refugee, was adopted from Cambodia at the age of six She was left in an orphanage without explanation of what was happening to her Twelve years later she traveled with her adoptive mother to find her Cambodian family She found her grandmother, who said: “Forgive me for giving you away” Srey Powers, 19, was adopted by her Long Island parents from Cambodia at […]

India’s main opposition party has named controversial politician Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for elections due next year. Mr Modi, who has been chief minister of Gujarat state since 2001, has long been seen as a rising star of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In June, he was chosen to lead the party’s campaign for the election. Mr Modi is credited with making Gujarat one of […]

Asaram had sexually assaulted her for more than an hour inside a room in his Jodhpur ashram as her parents sat outside chanting prayers for the “ritual” her daughter was supposed to be undergoing. Venting her anger at Asaram Bapu, the 16-year-old girl, who has accused the self- styled godman of sexual assault, alleged that he is “a criminal in the garb of a guru”. “ It was a big […]