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Spanish police smash 'false bottom' boat drug smuggling ring AFP January 13, 2016, 11:07 pm Madrid (AFP) - Spanish police said Wednesday they have smashed a ring that smuggled cannabis from Morocco into Spain using a fleet of pleasure boats with false bottoms, arresting 17 people and seizing...

TalkTalk hires BAE Systems to investigate cyber attack Reuters October 26, 2015, 2:55 am A spotlight shines on a company logo at a TalkTalk building in London, Britain October 23, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - British broadband provider TalkTalk said on...

Anonymous tweet warned of Japan airport website attacks CRIME OCT. 18, 2015 - 06:15AM JST NAGOYA — A tweet claiming to come from Anonymous, a diffuse international collective of online hacker activists, warned of cyberattacks on the websites of major Japanese airports just one day before the...

Maryland teens, wife arrested over love triangle double slaying John Clarke, Reuters First posted: Friday, October 16, 2015 12:55 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 16, 2015 01:06 PM EDT (aijohn784/Fotolia) A Maryland woman and two teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in an...

Women held in a China pigsty to be sold as brides by trafficking gang had mental impairments Trafficking ring paid southern families ¥3,000 for their mentally impaired daughters, then sold them to rural men for up to ¥100,000 PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 14 October, 2015, 2:18pm UPDATED : Thursday...

Oregon massacre survivor deemed 'lucky one' by shooter recalls horrific event Mathew Downing spared by Harper-Mercer to deliver package to cops Lisa Baumann, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Friday, October 09, 2015 11:54 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 10, 2015 08:49 AM EDT Umpqua...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon orders audit of funds linked to Macau billionaire and non-profit firm Move comes two days after bribery charges made public as UN chief declares that there can be 'no tolerance for corruption' in the UN PUBLISHED : Friday, 09 October, 2015, 8:20am UPDATED : Friday, 09...

Oregon shooter killed himself in front of class: officials AFP October 8, 2015, 5:59 am Los Angeles (AFP) - The gunman behind the massacre at a college in Oregon that left nine people dead killed himself in the classroom where the carnage took place, authorities said Wednesday. Jim Burge...

Sting operations in Europe reveal how nuclear smugglers wanted to sell radioactive material to Islamic State who may be plotting dirty bomb attacks Criminal organisations, some with ties to the Russian KGB's successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in Balkans...

British millionaire loses control of his $900,000 Porsche at car show and ploughs into crowd of spectators PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 06 October, 2015, 4:34pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 06 October, 2015, 10:03pm The Guardian Paul Bailey's Porsche spins out of control moment before crashing into a crowd...

Investigators piece together motive of Oregon shooter AFP October 4, 2015, 12:58 pm Roseburg (United States) (AFP) - Investigators pieced together clues as why a student at a college in Oregon went on a shooting rampage that left nine people dead, before committing suicide as police cornered...

Oregon shooter seen as recluse with weapons arsenal AFP October 3, 2015, 3:04 pm Roseburg (United States) (AFP) - The 26-year-old gunman behind America's latest mass shooting hoarded an arsenal of weapons, authorities said, describing him as a loner with a gripe against religion. As details...

Oregon shooting: Meet the hero army veteran who charged at gunman to save fellow classmates Chris Mintz, 30, was shot by Chris Harper-Mercer five times and after surgery, he is expected to make a full recovery, according to his family Chris Mintz was shot at least five times as...

Chris Harper-Mercer: Oregon college shooter described himself as shy in online dating profile PUBLISHED : Friday, 02 October, 2015, 2:28pm UPDATED : Friday, 02 October, 2015, 6:14pm Reuters in Winchester A photo posted on a MySpace profile belonging to someone named Chris Harper-Mercer...

Gunman massacres nine at Oregon college before being slain in shootout with police Killer, aged 20, demanded students state their religion before spraying them with bullets; Obama says gun laws must be changed PUBLISHED : Friday, 02 October, 2015, 3:53am UPDATED : Friday, 02 October, 2015...

Vietnamese plane turned around after passenger resisted phone ban: authority Thanh Nien News HANOI - Thursday, October 01, 2015 17:42 Hanoi airport authorities have fined a passenger VND4 million (US$178) for using her cell phone on a Vietjet flight last month when it was on the runway and...

Thai court grants rare suspended sentence over royal defamation AFP October 2, 2015, 1:06 am Bangkok (AFP) - A Thai court has handed a rare suspended jail term to a man convicted for royal defamation, his lawyer said Thursday, as prosecutions under the controversial law surge in the...

Raid on Chinese web-chat sex ring nets 'models and actresses moonlighting as prostitutes' Police detain Shanghai suspects who allegedly used mainland social media to meet clients and charged them up to 10,000 yuan (HK$12,000) for sexual favours, mainland media reports PUBLISHED : Tuesday...

Raid on Chinese web-chat sex ring nets 'models and actresses moonlighting as prostitutes' Police detain Shanghai suspects who allegedly used mainland social media to meet clients and charged them up to 10,000 yuan (HK$12,000) for sexual favours, mainland media reports PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 29...

Lost in translation? Lawyers for men accused of Koh Tao murder claim interrogation was flawed Questions were raised by the witnesses about ethnic biases on the part of the translators as well as their competence. PUBLISHED : Saturday, 26 September, 2015, 7:19pm UPDATED : Saturday, 26...