Allegations of phone hacking have led to an unprecedented public spending spree by police and the Crown Prosecution Service contributing to the £100m overall cost of the investigation and trial. Despite the allegations being comparatively minor: listening to celebrity’s voicemails,
A 44-year-old man has died of an overdose at Venice Airport after a bag of cocaine ruptured in his stomach. Stefano Gaviolo started to become ill after he arrived at Marco Polo Airport on a flight from Brazil, according to the
Opium poppy cultivation worldwide has reached its highest level in 16 years with number-one producer Afghanistan growing record amounts despite year-long Western efforts to eradicate the crop, the UN said Thursday. The area used by farmers in war-torn Afghanistan to
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned was freed again on Thursday after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents. Eman Abdul-Rahman, the lawyer for 27-year-old Mariam Ibrahim, told The Associated
Police from Austria, Germany and the Netherlands have arrested an international gang of tractor thieves, the latest move in a campaign against a Europe-wide countryside crime wave which costs farmers and agricultural equipment dealers millions every year. The gang arrested have
Mohammad Gulab has been marked for death by the Taliban and is being actively “hunted” by fighters in the group. His crime is the aid he gave to “Lone Survivor” U.S. Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell. According to Vocativ, it was
The Hamas abduction of three Israeli teenagers last week has elicited impressive solidarity all across Israeli society. But Israelis are also paying close attention to the reactions from near and far to this terror crime, and they are not impressed.
In response to Not a Smidgen of Corruption in IRS Wrongdoing: Well, I suppose if you accept Hillary Clinton’s definition of multi-million-dollar income as virtual poverty, then maybe $50k worth of wrongdoing isn’t quite a full “smidgen.” It’s more like
Cigarette vending machines will be banned in Ireland as part of the government’s attempt to create “a tobacco-free Ireland” by 2015, according to the Irish Times. The legislation was agreed by cabinet yesterday. It follows news earlier this month that
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Los Angeles Municipal Code section prohibiting the use of a vehicle “as living quarters either overnight, day-by-day or otherwise” is unconstitutionally vague under the due process clause
Politicians who are given to shallow, yet colorful rhetorical flourishes and “a do as I say-not as I do” approach to political adversaries hope “We the People” are too stupid, too distracted, and/or too eager for a savior to notice
HOUSTON, Texas–A week-long, nationwide effort by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well as federal and local law enforcement agencies, resulted in the recovery of 168 children who were victims of sex trafficking. Additionally, almost 300 pimps were apprehended
They rape and torture women in Iran: First, at home, as a family matter; then in prison, as a state matter. They publicly execute women for daring to kill their attackers in self-defense. It is public in order to
John Nolte mentioned that Tim Burton’s epochal “Batman” film is now 25 years old, which immediately made every aching joint in my aging body flare up, and more of my remaining hair turn white. Twenty-five years ago? Really? The nifty
Perhaps one of the most blatant media lies this month (though we still have a week to go) is the recycled news of the baseless investigations of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. This primer on the media’s smearing of Walker is
Audiences may not have realized it, but the sleeper 2013 hit The Purge targeted the NRA and the Tea Party movement. The storytelling was inelegant, to put it kindly. Critics caught the slams, though, and the film’s director copped to it
At least half of calls passed to frontline police officers originate with complaints about social media. The head of the police college Chief Constable Alex Marshall told the BBC the level of complaints was a “real problem”. He said the it
Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman whom an Appeal Court freed yesterday, has just been re-arrested at the airport trying to leave Khartoum. She is now in more danger than ever before. Here’s why. A man, Al-Samani
Britain on Tuesday became the latest nation to formally outlaw the herbal stimulant khat, the bushy leaf chewed by many Somalis, Yemenis, Kenyans and Ethiopians. Under a new law that came into effect on Tuesday, khat is now a “class
Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was found not guilty of all charges in Britain’s landmark phone-hacking trial while former colleague Andy Coulson was guilty of one charge on Tuesday. The jury delivered their verdicts after eight days
Monday night at a evening congressional hearing on the Internal Revenue Service claims that Lois Lerner’s email’s were lost due to a computer crash, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) confronted agency commissioner John Koskinen over whether he had contacted the FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) rescued 168 child victims of sex-trafficking and arrested 281 suspected pimps in its annual countrywide sex-trafficking crackdown last week. Operation Cross Country was carried out in 106 U.S. cities, according to an official FBI
An Iraqi immigrant was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for the murder of his wife in San Diego Superior Court on Monday. The murder was originally touted as a hate crime by Kassim Alhimidi, 50, but prosecutors
Britons accused of crimes can wait up to three years to face trial, creating a limbo that punishes them even though they have been found guilty of no crime. A total of 57,000 are on Police bail, where officers define
I was recently asked to advise a young Arab Muslim woman on her doctoral dissertation. Her work concerned violence against women–honor killings in particular. I said it would be my “honor” to do so. However, this feminist, from a wealthy
