Man pleads guilty to killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere in attack that shocked the city
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Twentytwo13Major child abuse case gets Malaysian King’s attention, police to probe CEO of company allegedly linked to charity homes
Malaysia’s King, Sultan Ibrahim, has instructed police to conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged criminal, and child abuse cases, linked to Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holdings (GISBH).
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Houston man denied bond in capital murder case of Nepali woman
Bobby Shah, 51, who is accused of murdering 21-year-old Muna Pandey, a woman from Nepal, in her Houston apartment on Aug. 24, was denied bond. Shah is charged with capital murder for allegedly shooting Pandey four times, including an "execution-style" shot to the head. Prosecutors revealed that when Shah was arrested days later, he was still wearing blood-stained clothes and had a gun in his car.
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Hong Konger convicted of wearing seditious T-shirt
Chu Kai-pong, 27, became the first person convicted under Hong Kong’s newly enacted domestic national security law. Chu pleaded guilty to sedition on Monday after being arrested for wearing a T-shirt and mask displaying pro-independence slogans, actions prosecutors said revived memories of the 2019 protests and incited public disorder. Details of the case: Chu was arrested on June 12, 2024, at Shek Mun MTR station while wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” and a mask bearing “FDNOL,” shorthand for the 2019 protest mantra “five demands, not one less.”
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Woman tells court she ‘zoned out’ during alleged rape by high-profile Sydney man
The man, who cannot be named, has pleaded not guilty to 12 charges including six counts of rape
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Piglet rescued after mother pig accidentally falls asleep on top of it
This is the moment a piglet was rescued in Liaoning, China on August 9 after its mother accidentally fell asleep on top of it. Her owner gave the sow a comical slap with a shovel, startling it, flinging another piglet into the air and setting the poor, suffocating piglet free.
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How Ukraine Turned Putin’s Own Trick Against Him
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Stuck in a crowded prison cell in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 45-year-old Viktor faces a choice. He can stay where he is, serving out his sentence in the knowledge that a Russian bomb could hit the jail any day, or he can swap his cell for the dangers of the front lines, as a volunteer defending his country.“Better to go fight with weapons, than sit here,” he tells the Daily Beast.In a tactic borrowed from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, Ukraine has started releasing prisoners for
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‘The bruises aren’t working’: Boyfriend accused of fatally stabbing teen partner with a sword
Shane Curry was found curled up with the lifeless body of Nevaeh Goddard with a sword and kitchen knife in the room, police said
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50 Cent mocks P Diddy after 1000 lube bottles seized in FBI arrest
The rapper has been a longtime critic of the embattled music mogul
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'I am a rapist,' Frenchman tells trial over mass rape of wife
"I am a rapist," said a Frenchman accused of drugging his wife for years so that he and dozens of strangers could sexually assault her, his first testimony in a trial that has horrified France.With her auburn bob and sunglasses, 71-year-old Gisele has become a feminist icon since she demanded that the trial be made open to the public to raise awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse.
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Waffle House Customer Accused of Killing Teen Employee After Getting Angry While Food Was Being Prepared
Florwer Carlin Lizano, Jr., 38, a convicted felon who is now charged with first-degree murder, remains at large, police tell PEOPLE
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A French man admits in court to drugging his wife so that he and dozens of men could rape her
In a trial that has gripped France and raised awareness about sexual violence in the home and beyond, Dominique Pélicot told the court that he also raped his wife, Gisèle Pélicot, and that the 50 men standing trial alongside him understood exactly what they were doing. Although he previously confessed to investigators, his court testimony will be crucial for the panel of judges to decide on the fate of his co-defendants, who range in age from 26 to 74. Many of them deny having raped Gisèle Pélicot, saying her then-husband had manipulated them or that they believed she was consenting.
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Elon Musk Has the Worst ‘Both Sides’ Take on Latest Trump Assassination Attempt
Elon Musk, the billionaire king of bad takes, came up with a new one to cement his reign on Sunday night. Responding to a second potential assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, the X owner questioned why no one was trying to kill the Democratic president and vice president. “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” he posted, adding a thinking-face emoji. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get the Daily Beast's biggest scoops and scandals delivered right to your inbox. Sign up n
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Divers hunting for clues on how Mike Lynch’s superyacht sank make discovery
The video equipment recovered could show if the crews left doors open on the Bayesian superyacht, which might have allowed the vessel to flood
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New sketches out for Asian victim found dead near Gilgo Beach serial killings
The Gilgo Beach Task Force in New York’s Long Island on Monday released updated forensic sketches of “Asian Doe,” a victim whose remains were discovered near Gilgo Beach in 2011. About “Asian Doe”: “Asian Doe,” described as a “biological male” of likely Southern Chinese descent, was found dead in 2011 near another victim killed in a string of murders known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings. The new sketches depict “Asian Doe” with both short and long hair.
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She Killed Her Husband and Impersonated Him on Facebook. It Was How She Hid the Body That Led to Arrest
Laurie Leigh Shaver, 41, of Fla., was found guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm for killing her husband, Michael Douglas Shaver, 36, in 2015, authorities said
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4 people could face the death penalty after drug arrests on Bali
Indonesian authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested six people on drug charges on the tourist island of Bali since July. Two Thai nationals, Rachanon Jongseeha, 33, and his girlfriend Woranawan Wongsuwan, 31, were arrested upon arrival at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport on Sept. 8, with 1.9 kilograms (4.1 pounds) of methamphetamines mixed with ecstasy powder packed in 108 sachets of a fruit-flavored collagen drink, and 20 pills of the party drug ecstasy, according to provincial anti-narcotics chief Rudy Ahmad Sudrajat.
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Couple accused of murdering teen to steal baby acquitted
Robert and Anne Geeves were accused of killing an intellectually disabled teen to steal her baby.
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Kidnapped and trafficked twice - a sex worker's life in Sierra Leone
BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors of the lives of sex workers in the West African state.
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Titan submersible sent its final message 6 seconds before contact was lost, investigators say at US Coast Guard hearing
The Titan submersible sent its final message just six seconds before it lost contact with the surface during its ill-fated dive to the Titanic, according to a US Coast Guard body probing the vessel’s implosion in June 2023, which killed all five people on board.
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs denied bail in sex-trafficking case
The musician allegedly plied victims with drugs to keep them “obedient” in days-long parties called "Freak Offs".