At least 30 people were killed and dozens of others injured on Sunday after an express train derailed in southern Pakistan, officials said, thrusting the dilapidated state of the country’s railway infrastructure back into the spotlight.At least 11 carriages of the train, the Hazara Express, with at least 950 passengers onboard, fell off the tracks near the town of Nawabshah, local news media reported. The train, which left Karachi at 8 a.m., was heading to Havelian, in the northern part...
A 23-year-old woman avoided jail time Wednesday after stabbing her blind date last year in a Las Vegas-area hotel room to get “revenge” for the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. While on a blind date with Daniel Trevino, a man she connected with on the dating app Plenty of Fish, Nika Nikoubin blindfolded Trevino and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife while the two were having sex in a hotel room, according to police,...
Birds get electrocuted on power lines. But people shooting at birds perched on power poles may be even more of a problem. In a survey of five sites in the western United States, two-thirds of birds found dead beneath power lines had been shot.Avians found dead along power lines are often assumed to have died from electrocution, especially if their bodies show burns or singeing, said Eve Thomason, a wildlife biologist at Boise State University in Idaho. But the animal...
Armed men killed 13 people and wounded two in a northern village in the mineral-rich but impoverished Central African Republic, local officials said Wednesday.Ousmane Youssef, a tribal chief in the village of Diki near the country's border with Chad, said a group of armed men entered the community Tuesday and called a meeting with local residents and leaders, before shooting them point-blank.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but in March, the U.N. condemned an attack on another northern...
July 11, 2019: Lori Vallow's husband, Charles Vallow, is killed by her brother, Alex Cox, in Arizona. Police initially rule that Alex acted in self defense but reopen the case months later after the children are reported missing. August, 2019: Lori moves children JJ and Tylee to Rexburg, Idaho, close to where her future husband Chad Daybell lives with his wife Tammy.September 8, 2019: Tylee is seen alive for the last time during a trip to Yellowstone National Park with Lori, JJ and...
A former Olympic boxer was convicted of kidnapping and killing his pregnant lover by tossing her off a bridge into a lagoon in Puerto Rico, allegedly after she refused to get an abortion.Félix Verdejo-Sánchez, 30, was found guilty on Friday of kidnapping resulting in death and intentionally killing an unborn child following a three-month trial in the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico. The jury of three women and nine men deliberated for three days but could not reach a...
Two people have died after two aircraft collided mid-air in Brisbane, Australia.The incident between the light aircraft occurred at Caboolture Airfield on Friday morning (July 28).Despite the efforts of paramedics and rescue workers, both occupants of one of the planes died.Footage of the crash site shows a large number of paramedics and emergency workers at the scene.Following the accident, it was announced that the victims of the crash were a man and a woman in their 60s.Meanwhile, the other aircraft...
After 30 years of uncertainty, the identity of 12-year-old Jennifer Odom's killer has been revealed through a DNA match as a 61-year-old man already serving two life sentences.Jeffrey Norman Crum, who is already serving two life sentences for a 2015 sexual battery and attempted murder conviction.Crum has a history of violent crimes, including a robbery in 1981 and a sexual battery case in 1985. DNA evidence from a previous sexual battery case provided the crucial link to Jennifer's killing.For three...
A depraved devil-obsessed loner who sexually assaulted and murdered his 16-year-old sister was branded a 'disgusting human' by peers who revealed he once 'threatened to rip' an unborn baby from the womb of a pregnant student.Connor Gibson, then 19, was found guilty of murdering his younger sister Amber after tearing her clothes off with the intent to rape her, before strangling her on November 26, 2021.Former classmates at Kear Campus in Blantyre, Lanarkshire - a secondary school for those with...
For the first thirty years of my life, I lived within a one-mile radius of Willesden Green Tube Station. It’s true I went to college—I even moved to East London for a bit—but such interludes were brief. I soon returned to my little corner of North West London. Then suddenly, quite abruptly, I left not just the city but England itself. First for Rome, then Boston, and then my beloved New York, where I stayed ten years. When friends asked...
