A 6-year-old Chinese boy who had his eyes gouged out by a woman believed to be his aunt may one day see again after a Hong Kong hospital offered him “electronic eyes.” Hong Kong-based eye expert Dennis Lam said his team would provide the ...

Gilbert Otaigbe is the current owner of Black Horse bar and nightclub in Roppongi. At the height of his success in the mid-2000s, he owned at least seven bars, clubs and restaurants.

The charge was stealing a tow truck. The defendant was a baby-faced 27-year-old in shorts and a Chicago Bulls jersey. His hair was slightly matted, wrists cuffed in front, hands clutching a brown paper bag, demeanor slackened by anti-psychotic medications. “Why don’t we take ...

The New York City Council has created an inspector general to review police practices, overriding Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto and putting a check on the stop-and-frisk policy he championed as a crime-fighting tool. The predominantly Democratic council voted 39 to 10 Thursday to pass ...

The National Police Agency announced Friday it has appointed Toshie Tanaka, 47, as the first female chief of the Iwate Prefectural Police. Tanaka, who currently serves as director of the NPA’s International Investigative Operations, which probes cross-border crimes and those involving foreigners, will replace ...

Norwegian jailed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has had his application to study political science at the University of Oslo rejected, the institution said Tuesday. Breivik, a right-wing extremist who is serving a 21-year prison term for killing 77 people, published a 1,500-page manifesto ...

Moments before District of Columbia police found Jiamei Tian hiding in a bathroom stall at Washington National Cathedral, a family of tourists had spotted her in a back pew of the Children’s Chapel guarding two bags and muttering softly in a foreign language. Tian’s ...