A wild prison riot in northern Mexico on Sunday that left 44 people stabbed and bludgeoned to death was planned as a cover for a massive drug cartel jailbreak – likely with the help of corrupt prison officials, authorities said. Officials in the state of Nuevo Leon believe that at least 30 inmates with links [...]
49 days after he was kidnapped in Angola following a derailed Nas concert, a U.S. concert promoter is now free to go home. A rep for Patrick Allocco tells TMZ, “An order was entered today by Angolan authorities lifting the travel ban which prevented [Patrick] and his son from leaving the country for 49 days [...]
The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece Thursday morning from a charred Honduran prison had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press. More than half of the 856 inmates of [...]
A fire started by an inmate has torn through a severely overcrowded Honduran prison, burning and suffocating inmates in their locked cells and killing as many as 356 people in one of the world’s deadliest prison fires in a century. Survivors told investigators that an unidentified inmate screamed “We will all die here!” as [...]
An Iranian bomber blew off his own legs when he hurled a grenade at Thai police outside a Bangkok school – which bounced off a tree and then exploded at his feet. It came after he had blown up his own home and then hurled a grenade at a taxi driver who would not accept [...]
Anonymous – Message To Greece
For the first time ever, Russia is opening one of its most guarded institutions to an international film crew: its prison system.
A branch of multinational bank HSBC in the New Cairo district of the capital was robbed by unidentified gunmen on Monday morning. New Cairo is a high-income residential area on the outskirts of the capital. The area, known for its lavish residential compounds, also hosts the campuses of the American and German universities. A gang [...]
New York City’s tallest skyscraper just got even more expensive to build. The 1,776-foot tall 1 World Trade Center will now cost at least $3.8 billion, up from the most recent public estimate of $3.1 billion, making it the most expensive office building in the world, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The $700 million [...]
U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia early this morning to rescue an American woman and a Danish man in a shootout with pirates holding them hostage that left nine captors dead. Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, were freed and are now said to be unharmed and at a safe location following their [...]
Officials say a crocodile swallowed a girl in Indonesia as her father looked on helplessly. District official Victor Mado Waton says the 10-year-old girl was searching for turtles with her father and brother in East Nusatenggara province when a giant saltwater crocodile sprang from a river and pulled her in. Waton said Saturday that villagers [...]
Joran van der Sloot was sentenced to serve 28 years in a Peruvian prison Friday for the 2010 murder of a young woman in his Lima hotel room. Van der Sloot also is considered the chief suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005. Coincidentally, his [...]
The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating a new online video that appears to show four Marines cracking wise while urinating on the corpses of three Taliban fighters. “Have a great day, buddy,” one of the chuckling Marines is heard saying as they defile the bloody bodies splayed out before them. “Golden – like a shower,” [...]
America’s deadliest sniper viewed the 255 Iraqi insurgents he killed with his long-range rifle as ‘savages’ who were terrorizing civilians and trying to kill his comrades in uniform, he has revealed. For US Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle, the only regrets from four tours of duty where the friends he lost in combat. He also [...]
The prosecutor in the trial of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is seeking a death sentence for the former president and his security chief for killing protesters, the Associated Press reports. “Retribution is the solution. Any fair judge must issue a death sentence for these defendants,” said Mustafa Khater, one of a five-member prosecution team on the [...]
The cat got a Chinese tycoon’s tongue — and took the rest of him, too. Billionaire Long Liyuan died after noshing on slow-boiled cat meat stew during a business lunch in the Guangdong province, where cooked kitty is a local delicacy, police said. Long, who made his fortune hacking down forests and developing property, was [...]
A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 57 people and injuring nearly 200 in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. The bloodbath comes just days after American forces left the country. The blasts also came on the heels of a political crisis between Iraq’s Sunni and Shiite [...]
Former strongman Manuel Noriega arrived in Panama on Sunday to face justice for the murder of political opponents more than two decades after his ouster in a bloody US invasion and subsequent exile in US and French prisons. The ex-strongman arrived on an Iberia flight from Paris escorted by a delegation of six foreign ministry [...]
Authorities in California uncovered a major cross-border tunnel, the latest find in the cat-and-mouse game between U.S. officials and people smuggling drugs across the border from Mexico. “It is clearly the most sophisticated, major tunnel that we have found in the last five years, perhaps ever,” said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration [...]
POLICE have thrown cold water on claims that embattled Deejay Vybz Kartel has escaped from the New Horizon Adult Remand Centre early this morning. Reports have gone viral on the internet and on social networks that the Deejay and seven other inmates held guards hostage at gunpoint minutes after 1:00 am and stole uniforms and [...]
