German news agency dpa reports that a car drove into people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, driver arrested
BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa reports that a car drove into people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, driver arrested.
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Associated PressA doctor accused of sexual abuse by more than 200 former patients is indicted on rape charges
A grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted a doctor who is accused of sexually assaulting more than 200 former patients over a period of more than a decade. The patients sued Dr. Derrick Todd, who has been accused of performing unnecessary pelvic floor therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations and other unwarranted procedures on patients dating back to 2010. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office said in a statement Thursday that Todd was indicted earlier that day for “two counts of rape alleging the sexual assault of two women.”
- The Independent
Teacher who gave birth to 13-year-old student’s baby started molesting him when he was 11, court docs allege
The Independent has now seen the criminal complaint detailing the full extent of the horrific child sex abuse allegations
- CBC
She was searching online for a recipe. She found a video of herself engaged in a sexual act
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has.Natalie Brown sat down one day to search the Food Network for a recipe. But another website starting with "F" popped up immediately — Fetlife, a Canadian social networking site for people interested in fetishism — and on it, she found a video she didn't know existed of herself engaged in a sexual act. "I was so humiliated. I felt stupid, I felt embarrassed, I fel
- The Telegraph
Two Iranian ‘judges of death’ gunned down in Tehran
An armed assailant fatally shot two notorious Iranian judges inside the Islamic Republic’s supreme court on Saturday.
- Reuters
Bird feathers, blood found in both engines of crashed jet in South Korea, source says
Seoul (Reuters) -Investigators found bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 people, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Friday. The Boeing 737-800 plane, which departed from the Thai capital Bangkok for Muan county in southwestern South Korea, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport's runway, bursting into flames after hitting an embankment. Only two crew members at the tail end of the plane survived the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil.
- The Independent
Husband allegedly decapitated wife’s lover for getting her pregnant while he was in prison
One of victim Ulisys Molina’s severed hands was eventually found in a Nevada mailbox by a five-year-old
- Sky News
Grooming gang members sentenced for rape - as police hunt two believed to have fled the country
Ibrar Hussain, 47, Imtiaz Ahmed, 62, and Fayaz Ahmed, 45, were sentenced to prison sentences of six-and-a-half years, nine years, and seven-and-a-half years respectively at Bradford Crown Court. A judge described how they raped one of the girls in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in the 1990s, when she was 13 or 14. Only Hussain was present to start his sentence, with the court hearing the Ahmed brothers both absconded during their trial.
- Yahoo News Singapore
Man jailed for choking grandmother when she refused to give him money; Woman openly vapes on Jetstar flight from Singapore to Bangkok: Singapore live news
Yahoo Singapore is featuring a curated selection of some of the biggest, most important, and fascinating news that's making waves online.
- The Independent
Kelly Osbourne calls out celebrities using LA fires as photo op after Meghan and Harry labeled ‘disaster tourists’
‘No one asked you to come out and give hugs,’ reality star argued
- PA Media: UK News
Pair who took own lives in Polmont ‘given death sentence’, families’ lawyer says
A sheriff has ruled the deaths of Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, could have been avoided.
- The Telegraph
Marcus Rashford believed to have appeared in photo with rapper who murdered schoolboy
Marcus Rashford is believed to have appeared in photograph with a rapper whose songs include boasts about his murder of a schoolboy.
- HuffPost Life
This Workplace Behavior Makes You Look Incompetent. Are You Doing It?
Career experts weigh in on a common strategy that can majorly backfire.
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Texas sheriff's deputy killed, K-9 injured after intensive search in Houston
On Wednesday, a man fatally shot a Texas sheriff's deputy Wednesday at a shopping plaza in Houston and then evaded officers for hours before shooting a K-9 that helped find him hiding under trash in a dumpster.
- HuffPost
Coyote Pulled From Aldi Cold Food Section Is 'In Great Shape,' Slated For Release To Wild
Wildlife rehabbers theorized the animal ducked into the supermarket, then hid among refrigerated items to "hide from people inside the store.”
- Associated Press
Indian police volunteer convicted of rape, murder of a trainee doctor that led to protests
An Indian court on Saturday found a police volunteer guilty for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, a crime that sparked countrywide protests and hospital strikes last year amid renewed concerns over lack of safety for women. The killing of the 31-year-old physician while she was on duty at a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata in August highlighted once again the chronic issue of violence against women in the country. The trial in the case was fast-tracked through India’s notoriously sluggish legal system and arguments began in November.
- Evening Standard
Man jailed for life for kidnap and sexual assault of girl, 11, on way home from school in north London
Adam Baillie snatched the girl who was not known to him and took her to his home
- The Independent
Utah mom found dead at bottom of stairs, husband arrested after leaving body to go for beers
Autumn Mercado, a 39-year-old nurse, died at the family’s home in Salt Lake City with her body discovered by police officers carrying out welfare check
- AFP News
Indian court finds man guilty in notorious hospital rape case
An Indian court on Saturday found a 33-year-old man guilty for the rape and murder of a doctor, a crime that sparked nationwide protests and hospital strikes last year.The trainee doctor was found raped and murdered in a seminar room of the hospital last year.
- South China Morning Post
China and Thailand detain 12 crime ring members suspected of trafficking actor to Myanmar
Chinese and Thai police have worked together to detain 12 members of a crime ring accused of kidnapping six victims in Thailand and trafficking them to Myanmar as part of an employment and telecoms scam, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. The report came a day after Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to crack down on cross-border telecoms fraud. The victims in the case include Wang Xing, a Chinese actor who earlier this month fl
- The Independent
Taiwan’s first execution in five years sparks outcry: ‘Shocking and cruel’
Amnesty International urges Taiwan’s government to immediately halt any plans to carry out further executions