Italian court in Knox trial gives OK for new DNA tests

Oct 1, 2013

Italian court in Knox trial gives OK for new DNA tests

The Florence Appellate Court hearing U.S. student Amanda Knox’s third trial in her roommate’s murder agrees Monday to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon, but rejects more than a dozen other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.

Greek premier vows to eradicate neo-Nazi party

Oct 1, 2013

Greek premier vows to eradicate neo-Nazi party

Greece’s prime minister said Monday his government will do “whatever it takes” to completely eradicate the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, whose neo-Nazi leaders have just been arrested. Antonis Samaras said the Greek people “are very smart” and are now seeing the party for what ...

Gun-violence victims often greeted by silence

Sep 22, 2013

Gun-violence victims often greeted by silence

by Eli Saslow

The survivors took their places onstage from memory, because by now they knew exactly where to go. The shooting victims in wheelchairs entered first, rolling into the front row, wearing bracelets engraved with the words “Aurora,” “Oak Creek” or “Virginia Tech.” Behind them stood ...

Sep 21, 2013

Indian dad who killed daughter 'has no regrets'

The Indian father who killed his daughter and beheaded her boyfriend after they eloped has declared he feels no remorse over the “honor killings,” media reports said Friday. The young couple from the northern Indian state of Haryana was beaten to death Wednesday by ...

Sep 20, 2013

Host club boss goes down the drain; seven arrested

Seven people who allegedly dissolved the body of a gigolo-club owner using chemicals found in drain cleaner have been arrested, officials and media reports said Friday. The arrests come almost three years after Masamichi Tsuchida, then 43, mysteriously disappeared from his Tokyo “host club,” ...

Kyoto man held after he admits killing ex-lover

Sep 20, 2013

Kyoto man held after he admits killing ex-lover

Police have arrested a store manager from Kyoto on suspicion of stabbing to death his former girlfriend, whose body was found earlier this week on a path in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, police officials said. The police allege Takashi Okamoto, 47, who turned himself in ...

First confusion, then 'we just started running'

| Sep 17, 2013

First confusion, then 'we just started running'

Standing at an ATM in the first-floor atrium of the building where she works at the Washington Navy Yard, Patricia Ward was startled by a rapid succession of sharp noises that seemed to come from overhead. Bam, bam, bam. It was about 8:15 a.m. ...

Sep 14, 2013

Body of Japanese tourist killed in Turkey arrives home

The body of the college student killed last week in Cappadocia, central Turkey, arrived Saturday at Narita International Airport together with her parents. The Turkish Airlines flight that carried the body of Mai Kurihara, 22, from Istanbul arrived at around 10:20 a.m. The body ...

Sep 13, 2013

U.S. study links gun ownership and homicide

Researchers in the United States claim to have established a convincing statistical link between gun ownership and homicide, according to a study published Thursday. The study, which appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, challenges the National Rifle Association’s claim that increased gun ...