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Florida finds Zika in local mosquitoes AP on September 2, 2016, 9:50 am Florida has found the Zika virus in three groups of mosquitoes trapped in Miami Beach - the first time this has happened in the continental US - and authorities are blaming a particular flower for making mosquito control...

Rio Olympics police reinforcements come under gunfire AFP on July 7, 2016, 7:52 am Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Members of a huge police force sent to secure crime-ridden Rio before the Olympics next month have already come under gunfire, officials said Wednesday as Brazil's interim president...

Child Porn Suspect Appeals In Password Case The police officer has spent seven months in jail over a ruling he must be incarcerated until he reveals his hard drive password. 12:51, Friday 29 April 2016 Francis Rawls A police sergeant imprisoned for refusing to decrypt his hard drives...

Thousands sickened after human faecal matter contaminates bottled water, in world-first case PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 26 April, 2016, 9:40am UPDATED : Tuesday, 26 April, 2016, 9:50am Agence France-Presse More than 4,000 people fell ill with norovirus in northeastern Spain after drinking bottled...

Facebook adds Android app support for anonymity service Tor so users can hide location, enjoy greater privacy PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 20 January, 2016, 1:54pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 20 January, 2016, 1:59pm Reuters in Washington Tor said it has no plans to support Facebook’s mobile app for...

US Marine convicted of killing Filipina transgender woman files appeal AFP January 7, 2016, 12:26 am Manila (AFP) - The lawyer representing a US Marine found guilty of killing a transgender Filipina filed an appeal on Wednesday seeking to reverse his conviction. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott...

Chinese mine collapse 'leads to owner's suicide' AFP December 28, 2015, 4:46 am Beijing (AFP) - The owner of a Chinese gypsum mine committed suicide Sunday after a cave-in which killed one person and left 17 trapped, state media said. Ma Congbo drowned himself while he was at the scene...

Kuwait Airways pilot loses flying licence after letting ex-porn star visit the cockpit PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 08 December, 2015, 1:31pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 08 December, 2015, 1:31pm The Washington Post Chloe Mafia wears a pilot’s hat in the cockpit of a Kuwait Airways flight, in an image...

China jails 14 over 2013 pipeline blast AFP December 1, 2015, 4:53 am Beijing (AFP) - China sentenced 14 people, including local officials and employees at a state company, to prison Monday for their role in a 2013 pipeline blast that killed 63 and injured another 156, state media reported...

Man pleads guilty to stealing human brains from Indiana medical museum Kim Palmer, Reuters First posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 07:24 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 07:29 PM EST A 23-year-old Indiana man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to breaking into a medical museum and...

Man dies after slaughtering girlfriend's family Xinhua, November 18, 2015 A man was found dead two days after he killed his girlfriend and five members of her family, police in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality said on Wednesday. The tragedy happened in Nongzhuang Village in Kaixian...

Hundreds arrested as police crack phone-scam gangs based overseas targeting Hong Kong, mainland China 431 suspects arrested in Indonesia and Cambodia after unprecedented cooperation between officers from the mainland,Hong Kong and Taiwan PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 10 November, 2015, 1:59pm UPDATED ...

254 suspects extradited from Indonesia, Cambodia Xinhua, November 10, 2015 Suspects involved in telecom swindle cases are escorted off an aircraft by the police at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov 10, 2015. [Xinhua photo] A...

South Korean artist’s mysterious death reveals family feud as daughter is denied 'chance to mourn her' Country debating how to belatedly mark legacy of seminal painter PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 28 October, 2015, 12:22pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 28 October, 2015, 5:21pm Agence France-Presse in Seoul...

Indonesian woman with millions in cash barred from leaving Taiwan 2015/10/26 18:10:21 Taipei, Oct. 26 (CNA) An Indonesian woman on her way out of Taiwan was barred from boarding a flight to Jakarta on Monday after being found to have NT$6.4 million (US$197,590) in cash in her luggage at an...