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Ghaziabad, May 28 — Till Friday Monu Singh (19) was just an undertrial in a murder case at Dasna District Prison. But overnight he became the teenager who scored a whopping 80.4 per cent in his Class X exam despite being in jail.
Pawan Singh (20), another inmate facing trial in a dowry-death case, got 65 per cent marks.
London, May 12 (ANI): Irish actor Collin Farrell has signed up to play a bloodsucker in a remake of 1985 cult classic Fright Night.
Collin has signed along actress Toni Collette and Anton Yelchin to play the bloodsucker-next-door originally portrayed by Chris Sarandon.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Farrell will portray vampire Jerry who secretly terrifies his neighborhood, and Collette will play the already-cast Anton Yelchin’s single mom, reports The Daily Express.
Yelchin will play the teenager who is convinced the street”s new resident has a deadly secret. (ANI)
A teenager has been charged over a fatal crash in Tasmania’s north-west in February.
The 19-year-old from Forest is facing a number of charges, including causing death by dangerous driving, drink-driving and driving while disqualified.
The charges relate to a crash on the Bass Highway at Wiltshire, near Stanley, that killed Drew Betts and seriously injured an 18-year-old woman.
The man has been released on bail to reappear in court at a later date.
Washington, May 5 (ANI): Justin Bieber has inadvertently revealed that he does not know the meaning of the word ‘German’.
During an interview with a New Zealand talk show, the 16-year-old singing sensation is left puzzled when asked what his last name, ‘Bieber,’ means in German.
The interviewer asked the question again and showed Bieber the question on a card, but the teenager was still puzzled, reports Fox News.
“German? I don’t know what that means, ” Bieber said.
“We don”t say that in America,” he says, referring to the word. (ANI)
Kuantan, Apr 27 (ANI): In the wake of the shocking suicide by a Malay teenager, who flung himself off the fifth floor in a bid to evade officers conducting religious raids, Malaysian politician Adnan Yaakob has questioned the effectiveness of such exercises.
He believes that were the people targeted by these raids alive, they would at least have a chance of reforming themselves and adopting a lifestyle that upholds Islamic values.
“I think it is better to give them guidance rather than raiding a place. Raids will cause the person to panic and do something irrational like jumping off a building,” Adnan told the State Assembly at Kuantan, The Star reports.
He also raised the issue of teenage suicides caused by depression and urged teachers to be more observant and counsel those susceptible. (ANI)
South Korean teenager Noh Seung-yul has his sights set on becoming the youngest winner of the Asian Tour order of merit title after taking top spot following a strong finish at the Ballantine’s Championship.
The 18-year-old fired a final round four-under-par 68 on Sunday to finish five shots behind winner Marcus Fraser of Australia in a tie for fourth but the $137,760 cheque moved him above Andrew Dodt in the earnings standings.
“It’s nice to be on top of the Asian Tour order of merit and I hope to do well to secure my position,” Noh said in an Asian Tour statement on Monday.
“I know if I win the order of merit, I’ll be the youngest player to do so but at the moment, I don’t want to think too far ahead as there are still many more events this year and things might change. I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself.”
The slender teenager learned to play by hitting balls on the beach near his home and made his global breakthrough with a victory at the co-sanctioned Malaysian Open last month, becoming the youngest professional winner on the European Tour.
Noh followed that up by qualifying for the British Open the following week through International Final Qualifying (Asia) in a hot and humid Malaysia but dealt well gloomy conditions at home during last week’s 54-hole Ballantine’s Championship.
“It was a tough week especially with the fog delay during the opening round,” Noh added.
“The weather conditions were tough but I’m happy I played well under all these circumstances and I know my game can only get better when I play against these strong players.”
(Writing by Patrick Johnston; Editing by John O’Brien; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
London, Apr 17 (ANI): Police probing into the rape threat against X Factor judge Cheryl Cole have arrested a teenager.
It is alleged that a menacing message was left on the mobile answer phone of show presenter Dermot O’Leary last month.
Police said that a youth from Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, had been arrested and bailed.
“A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of malicious communication and released on bail,” the Daily Express quoted a City of London Police spokesman as saying.
Girls Aloud star Cole, 26, joined ITV’s ratings winner in 2008, a year after O’Leary, 36, joined ‘The X Factor’.
The presenter was reportedly horrified.
“He thought at first it was a sick wind-up, but soon realised there was something more sinister going on,’ said a source.
The Geordie singer was alerted immediately. (ANI)
A violent street brawl between rival bikie gang members has led to the arrests of six men in Adelaide.
Police say Hells Angels members fought with members of the New Boys outside the Ink Central tattoo parlour in Hindley Street in the city, at about 1:45am ACST.
Police allege the Hells Angels used metal poles and chains and that chairs were thrown.
After the fighting, the Hells Angels drove off in two cars and police stopped one in nearby Light Square.
They say three men from Victoria aged 25, 39 and 40, a British national, 50, and a man, 31, from Magill in Adelaide were arrested and charged.
Police also arrested one of the New Boys; a teenager, 19, from Craigmore in Adelaide.
They are still looking for the people in the second car, a Ford sedan, which had Victorian registration XOM 677.
NRL star Brett Stewart will face trial in September over claims he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl after his club’s 2009 season launch.
The 25-year-old Manly fullback was last month committed to stand trial over the alleged assault.
Today, Stewart appeared on crutches in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court when his matter was briefly mentioned.
Justice Peter Berman set a trial date of September 13.
Stewart has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual intercourse without consent and assault with an act of indecency.
The alleged incident happened in March last year outside the teenager’s North Manly apartment complex.
Stewart did not say anything in court today and declined to speak to reporters outside.
A baby has been injured as a car crashed into a house at Morphett Vale in Adelaide’s southern suburbs.
Police say four children and a woman were inside when a teenager drove into the house in Emerald Road just after 9:00am ACST.
The one-year-old boy suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.
A girl aged two was taken to hospital as a precaution.
A woman and two girls, aged seven and five, were unhurt.
Police are interviewing the P-plate driver, 17, and a passenger about the accident.
Neighbours say they heard someone doing burn-outs in the street before the crash.
A 21-year-old Bacchus Marsh man has pleaded guilty to stalking a former friend, who later killed himself.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard Shane Gerada wrote a letter of apology, for tormenting 17-year-old Allem Halkic.
The boy received five threatening text messages in a 24 hour period, before he jumped from a bridge.
One text message threatened to put him in hospital.
The prosecution said it was a case of cyber bullying, but did not allege that Gerada caused the teenager’s death.
Gerada’s lawyer said his client’s conduct was naive and immature.
Magistrate Peter Reardon said he would convict Gerada but would not send him to jail.
He was ordered to complete 200 hours of community work.
The Youth Court has heard prosecutors may apply for a teenager to be tried as an adult over a fatal road crash at Mount Compass, south of Adelaide.
The teenager, 17, cannot be identified because of his age.
Three of his friends were killed in the accident, on Australia Day.
The boy is charged with three counts of death by dangerous driving.
The case has been put off until June, partly to give prosecutors time to consider their application.
A 22-year-old Canberra man who broke into a Commonwealth office building has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail.
Daniel James Craft pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and theft.
Last September he and two other men broke into the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs building in Tuggeranong.
Craft was on parole at the time.
In sentencing, Justice Richard Refshauge told the ACT Supreme Court that he had sympathy for the 22-year-old, who had had a sad childhood.
He said Craft started drinking and using drugs when he was a teenager.
Justice Refshauge noted his lengthy criminal history and said this was a chance for him to turn his life around.
He sentenced Craft to four-and-a-half years in jail, but he will be eligible for parole next April.
Mudgee woman Michelle Morrissey has been farewelled at a funeral this morning.
Family and friends of the 19-year-old gathered at the New South Wales town’s St Mary’s Catholic Church for the service.
Ms Morrissey was found dead in her home last month – 18-year-old Luke John Cotterill has been charged with her murder.
The Mayor of the Mid-Western Regional Council Percy Thompson says the Mudgee community is devastated by the teenager’s death.
He says many people wanted to pay their respects today.
“To lose someone so young in your community under such horrendous circumstances is something that’s really touching to everyone in the whole of the community,” he said.
A teenager who secured employment at Wollongong’s recent Jobs Expo says the opportunity has changed her life.
Megan Harding, 19, was among 13 hospitality trainees to meet the federal Member for Cunningham, Sharon Bird, yesterday.
Ms Harding, of Towradgi, is now involved in a 16-week training program at some of Wollongong’s tourism hospitality venues.
She says she was unemployed for more than a year, despite getting a hospitality qualification after leaving school.
“It’s been really tough. I’d been sending hundreds and hundreds of applications and hadn’t got a job out of it,” she said.
“I was planning on going … my sister was an exhibitor there and she rang me and said, ‘get down here because they’ve got over 400 jobs going’.
“So I got down there and I found it really good because it gave me a chance to meet the employers directly.”
Ms Harding says the region would benefit from holding the event again soon.
“I think it’s one of the best thing that’s ever happened and it’s such a good opportunity to meet employers face-to-face.” she said.
“I think it’s a good opportunity for employers. I think it’d be really beneficial to have again … it’s such a great opportunity and I feel really thankful for it.”
London, April 01 (ANI): After enjoying motherhood for two blissful years, Jennifer Lopez is back in the business, and she says “I won”t stop what I”m doing”.
The stunner is making a comeback with a new movie, record deal, fashion range and a lucrative world tour, reports The Mirror.
She says: “I feel like it’s a new beginning.
“It’s a bit like when I was a teenager about to embark on this career but it’s much more challenging, difficult and harder.”
“I have so much more experience now but I feel just as fresh as I did back then and I’m excited about my life,” she said.
“I won’t stop doing what I do. Maybe I’ll get to a point where I’m tired and feel I’ve done enough, but right now I see myself always working and expressing myself – whether in music or movies or fashion or whatever. That’s what I love to do,” she added. (ANI)
A knife-wielding teenager who tried to rob a Hobart taxi driver of his cab and then stole another car has avoided jail.
Luke Ryan Douglas has received a six month suspended prison sentence.
The Supreme Court in Hobart heard Douglas booked the taxi then tried to steal it when it arrived at his Blackmans Bay home last December.
The 19 year old produced a knife and told the driver to get out of his cab, then jumped on the roof and started stabbing the windscreen.
The court heard the driver managed to get away but in doing so crashed his taxi, causing significant damage.
Douglas then flagged down a passing car, pointed a knife at the occupants and fled in their vehicle.
He pleaded guilty to attempted armed robbery, assault and armed robbery.
The court heard Douglas suffered from depression and was drinking bourbon and sniffing petrol in the lead up to his crimes.
Central Queensland mother Charmaine Mann has been named as the Queensland’s Mother of the Year.
Ms Mann, 50, from Tannum Sands south of Gladstone has six children and has also fostered others, some of whom have had drug-related issues.
The child support group Barnardos has recognised her for opening her home to children in need.
She will be in the running for the Australian Mother of Year to be named just before Mother’s Day in May.
Ms Mann says her foster role started gradually.
“The first child was a teenager working with my husband and he needed somewhere to stay,” she said.
“My husband said we have a spare bedroom under the house – why don’t we let him come and live with us?
“It just sort of went from there.
“Most children bring home stray animals and say ‘can we keep it can we keep it’ – well my children started bringing home stray children and saying ‘can we keep ‘em can we keep ‘em’?”
An 18-year-old man has been formally refused bail after being charged with the murder of Michelle Morrissey in Mudgee, in the New South Wales central west.
Luke John Cotterill was arrested by police at Mudgee last night and charged with Ms Morrissey’s murder.
The 19-year-old’s body was found inside her home at Cox Street on Saturday evening about 6:20pm (AEDT).
Cotterill appeared in court only briefly this morning looking upset and rarely taking his eyes off his crying family.
Police say the teenager lives at Londonderry in outer-western Sydney but has connections with the Mudgee area.
Cotterill did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody to appear in Bathurst Local Court tomorrow via video-link.
A Colombian soldier captured as a teenager by the country’s left-wing FARC rebels has been released after more than 12 years as a hostage.
Sergeant Pablo Moncayo was 19 when he was captured. He was a corporal at the time but was promoted while in captivity.
The Red Cross coordinated the handover that took place at a remote jungle location in the south of the country.
Sergeant Moncayo’s plight has received international media attention largely due to his father’s lobbying efforts in which he would wear chains to symbolise his son’s captivity.
But the rebels say no more hostages will be released until Colombian president Alvaro Uribe agrees to negotiate a prisoner exchange.
Mr Uribe has a hardline policy against the rebels, but says an exchange is possible if freed guerillas do not rejoin the FARC.
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