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TRIPOLI: The Libyan capital was rocked by a series of explosions, thought to be the result of Nato airstrikes, early on Saturday, a
Reuters witness said.
Four blasts rocked the hotel were international media were based and a fifth was heard slightly further off.
June 15 (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck a remote part of southern California, near the border with Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.
The quake was centered about 5 miles (9 km) southeast of Ocotillo, California, and occurred at 0426 GMT, the USGS said. It was felt in San Diego on the western coast of California, a witness said.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
(Reporting by Peter Henderson, Writing by Paul Simao; Americas Desk; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
June 15 (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck a remote part of southern California, near the border with Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.
The quake was centered about 5 miles (9 km) southeast of Ocotillo, California, and occurred at 0426 GMT, the USGS said. It was felt in San Diego on the western coast of California, a witness said.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
(Reporting by Peter Henderson, Writing by Paul Simao; Americas Desk; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
Mumbai, June 6 — Two men, who were part of a 10-member group from Thane that had gone for a picnic to Gorai beach, drowned on Saturday. While Shailesh Ghadigaonkar’s (25) body has been recovered, Srikrishna Bhoir (22) is still missing. Police suspect Bhoir too has drowned. At 2 pm, Ghadigaonkar decided to go for a swim. Soon, Bhoir too joined him. “After half-an-hour they ventured deep into the sea,” said a witness, who refused to give his name. The other eight friends too were in shallow waters. The witness added that a few members of the group noticed that their friends were drowning and tried to save them. “One of the group members informed the police and fire brigade,” said an officer of the Gorai police station, requesting anonymity.
Efforts to locate Bhoir were on until late evening.
Mumbai, June 6 — The trial in the murder of the president of the Jalgaon District Congress Committee, Vishram Patil, has taken a new turn. Some of the witnesses, including a prosecution (panch) witness, have filed affidavits alleging that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) fabricated their statements attached to the CBI’s additional chargesheet filed on June 10, 2006.
Vishram was murdered on September 21, 2005. Political rivalry between him and party colleague, G.N. Patil, President Pratibha Patil’s brother, and another party member, Ulhas Patil, was suspected to be the reason for the murder.
Vishram’s widow, Rajni Patil, had moved the high court and the Supreme Court to make G.N. Patil an accused in the murder. An affidavit filed by Rekha Mali (wife of accused Raju Mali, who died in custody in 2007) alleged that the CBI and police fabricated her statement.
“CBI officers visit me and threaten me and my relatives. They ask me to give my statement according to what they say.
If anything happens to me, the CBI should be held responsible,” Rekha’s affidavit said. A senior CBI official confirmed these affidavits were filed.
“We will follow the process of law and file a reply if the court asks us to,” the officer said. The affidavit of Kishor Shah, one of the witnesses, said the police had approached him to be a panch witness.
“The police threatened me saying if I didn’t help them they would make me an accused in the case,” Shah’s affidavit said. Raju’s brother, Sanju, said the CBI had attached his statement with the chargesheet without recording it.
Rekha’s affidavit also said her husband had connections with politicians but nobody helped her. She claimed she had gone to meet G.N. Patil who asked her to return after 90 days.
Toronto, May 26 (IANS) At least two people were killed after a four-seater plane crashed in this Canadian city, officials said Tuesday.
According to police, the single engine of the plane failed to work and the aircraft hit the roof of an office building in northeastern Toronto, killing both the people aboard.
A witness said that he saw the plane rolled in the air with smoke on its tail before the crash, and he also heard the sound of explosion, , Xinhua reported.
New York, May 13 (ANI): “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson and his co-star Kristen Stewart had a massive blow-up as they reshot a scene for “Eclipse,” the third installment of the “Twilight” series, it has emerged.
The actress accused him of hanging out late at a racy London burlesque bar, says a source.
A witness told Page Six, “Kristen asked for a reshoot because she didn”t like her wig in the scene. Robert turned up later on the set.
“When Robert arrived, he and Kristen started fighting. She accused him of taking a later flight from London because he had been hanging out too late at a burlesque bar.
“She accused him right in front of the director and the crew.
“He didn”t take it well. They were both so angry, the crew had to take a break for an hour for things to simmer down.”
The lovebirds, however, quickly made up. (ANI)
London, May 12 (ANI): Monitoring brain activity of witnesses reveals no more than what they say they remember, a study has shown.
The study by Jesse Rissman and his team at Stanford University in California comes amid controversy over whether to admit functional MRI scans as evidence in US courts.
As part of their research, the team asked 16 volunteers to view 200 mugshots, reports New Scientist.
An hour later, they were again shown pictures of faces, some of which they had seen before and others that were new.
The researchers recorded fMRI scans of the volunteers” brains as they reported which faces they recognised.
While the brain scans matched the volunteers” decisions on whether the faces were familiar, they could not predict if the recollection was accurate.
The team also don”t know how easily a witness could cheat the system: remembering a recent event or fabricating a lie may look the same to the scanner.
The study has been published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (ANI)
Lahore, Apr.21 (ANI): Just when it looked like the controversy surrounding disgraced Pakistan fast bowler Mohammed Asif and his estranged girl friend Veena Malik was over with both agreeing to settle issues, there has been a new twist to the story with Veena’s ex-friend and actor Babbar Shah claiming to be her husband.
Shah claimed that he had married Veena, a famous television actress and model herself, two years ago and said that he has evidence to prove that he is legally wedded to her.
Shah told media persons that he was shocked to hear that Veena and Asif had married.
Shah said he had married Veena a couple of years ago in front of 22 people who were witness to the wedding.
“I have got concrete evidences and can surface them at any time,” The News quoted Shah, as saying.
“I can make striking revelations in connection with my marriage with Veena if I am forcefully implicated in this scandal any further but my family has advised me to keep this matter at an arm’s length,” he added.
Shah also provided some photographs and mobile clips to the media to prove his claims. (ANI)
MEXICO CITY, April 14 (Reuters) – A cargo aircraft crashed late Tuesday near the airport in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, killing five people, Mexican emergency authorities reported.
The aircraft, operated by privately held AeroUnion, crashed near a major road leading to the airport, killing as many as two people on board the aircraft and three on the ground, Mexican media reported.
Emergency officials were unable to confirm the number of fatalities.
Mexican security forces blocked off the area around the crash site as firefighters battled a blaze on the ground, according to a Reuters witness. (Reporting by Armando Tovar in Mexico City and Tomas Bravo in Monterrey; editing by Todd Eastham)
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, April 8 (Reuters) – Opponents of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on Thursday took control of the government building in the sothern town of Osh, where Bakiyev is staying after fleeing the capital, a Reuters witness said.
At least 2,000 people had earlier gathered on the town’s main square, the witness said. Supporters and opponents of Bakiyev scuffled on the square. (Writing by Conor Humphries; Editing by Louise Ireland)
London, Apr.5 (ANI): A lawyer representing the mother of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager who was raped and killed in early part of 2008 on Goa’s Anjuna Beach, has claimed that drug traders and police in the state are in cahoots, and should be prosecuted in court.
“There is a very strong cartel involving police and drug traders. The forces out to protect the criminals are very powerful. There are people who should be in the dock,” The Times quoted Vikram Varma, a Supreme Court lawyer representing Scarlett’s mother Fiona MacKeown, as saying.
A court in Goa will start hearing evidence today in the trial of the alleged killers of Scarlett, 15, the British girl who was raped and killed in 2008 in a case which exposed the seedy underside of the popular holiday destination.
The public prosecutor said that he has a strong case against Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho, two local men who are accused of plying Scarlett with drugs, raping her and leaving her to die on Goa’s Anjuna beach.
On the eve of the trial, Varma told The Times that he still believed that police officers were protecting other suspects with links to the drugs trade.
Varma also said that the prosecution could be hampered because witnesses, including a British man who said that he saw Scarlett being sexually assaulted, were too afraid to return to Goa to testify.
The British witness, Michael Mannion, went into hiding in India after the attack and was banned from leaving the country for six months after he finally came forward as a witness.
He said Fiona MacKeown, 44, is expected to give evidence, probably next week, but has to return to Britain by April 26. (ANI)
Soldiers in Guinea Bissau freed Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior shortly after arresting him in the capital on Thursday, an aide and a family member said.
“The prime minister has been freed and is meeting with the president,” said a family member, who asked not to be named.
Mamadou Diao, the prime minister’s press attache, confirmed the release. A Reuters witness in Bissau saw the prime minister’s vehicle heading towards the president’s office.
Americans made a frenzied grab for a bag of cash after more than $US100,000 ($110,247) tumbled out the back of an armoured truck onto a street in Ohio.
Local media reported the bag split open after it fell off the back of a vehicle and the driver drove away without noticing.
People saw the cash blowing down the street in a Columbus suburb and a mad scramble for the greenbacks ensued.
“People were jumping out of their vehicles,” one witness told NBC4 news.
“Like when you throw some fish in and you’ve got a school of piranhas and they haven’t eaten for a long time. It was funny.”
Another witness said people were laughing, smiling and taking as much as they could carry.
Workers at a nearby flower shop helped police gather the remaining money in boxes.
Many people later took some of the cash to the police station.
But only about $US10,500 ($11,582) was recovered by the end of the day, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
“We’re hoping that more people do the right thing,” an officer told the newspaper.
Police are examining surveillance camera video and photographs from cell phone cameras to try to track down people who grabbed the money.
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The Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard Judy Moran was acting unnaturally and oddly when she arrived at the scene of her brother-in-law’s murder.
Judy Moran is one of four people accused of the murder of Des Moran, who was shot dead in an Ascot Vale cafe last year.
The witness told the committal hearing that Judy Moran arrived at the murder scene within 15 minutes.
She told the court that after Judy Moran arrived, another woman commented that it was funny how quickly word spread about the murder.
The woman also told the court Judy Moran did not try to go near the cafe where her brother-in-law was shot.
“I couldn’t work out why she was walking around near the police and not going to the Ascot Vale Deli,” she said.
She thought Judy Moran was acting oddly when she ran over to police as they cordoned the area.
“She bent over, put her head down and seemed to be crying and carrying on, stamping her feet.”
Three others have been charged with the murder including Suzanne Kane, 46, Geoff Armour, 44, and Michael Farrugia, 45.
London, March 24 (ANI): A leaked statement by a witness who was present at the scene when Michael Jackson breathed his final moments has been dubbed ‘inconsistent’ by the legal team for Dr Conrad Murray, who is charged with the involuntary manslaughter over the singer’s death.
Alberto Alvarez, Jackson”s logistics director, apparently told investigators Murray interrupted CPR on the dying star and caused delay in calling paramedics while he tried to conceal drugs.
However, Ed Chernoff, among the lawyers representing Murray, said on the legal firm”s website that the statement was “inconsistent”, The BBC reported.
He wrote: “This statement was given more than two months after Michael Jackson”s death and is inconsistent with a statement he (Alvarez) gave the police the day after Mr Jackson was taken to the hospital.
“Further, his statement does not match up with much of the physical evidence found at the scene.”
Chernoff added: “We would ask the public to reserve judgement until after the people”s witnesses are placed under oath and subjected to the rigours of cross-examination. We are confident that a fair trial will ferret out the truth.”
Murray has denied the charge, pleading not guilty to “unlawfully, and without malice, killing Michael Joseph Jackson”.
The doctor admitted administering Propofol to help Jackson sleep hours before his death.
Jackson died aged 50 on June 25 last year at his home in Los Angeles. Coroners ruled the case as homicide mainly caused by an overdose of the anesthetic Propofol.
The next hearing has been set for April 5. (ANI)
A witness has placed two possible gunmen at the scene of Des Moran’s murder in Ascot Vale, in Melbourne’s west, last year.
Desmond ‘Tuppence’ Moran, 60, was gunned down in his favourite cafe last June.
A witness told the court she watched as two men backed out of the doorway of the cafe.
She said one was wearing a balaclava and both were dressed in black.
One of the men paused slightly in the doorway before yells of ‘run, run’ were heard and the men took off down the street.
The court also heard another witness describe how two gunmen walked casually away from the scene.
Rina Lauriola was on Union Road when Moran was shot.
She told the court she heard three bangs and turned to see bullet casings drop to the ground.
She then heard another three gun shots, before noticing a man walk calmly past her holding a gun.
She told the court he joined another man and they casually walked away as chaos erupted at the cafe.
Geoff Armour, 44, and 45-year-old Michael Farrugia are charged with Des Moran’s murder, along with Moran’s sister-in-law, Judy Moran, and 46-year-old Suzanne Kane.
The committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court continues.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard an eyewitness account of the final moments of Des Moran’s life before he was shot dead in a cafe in Ascot Vale last year.
His sister-in-law, Judy Moran, Suzanne Kane, 46, Geoff Amour, 44, and Mike Farrugia are charged over his murder.
A witness told the committal hearing that he saw the silhouette of a man’s arm holding a gun come through the cafe door and fire at Mr Moran.
The court heard everyone hit the floor as Mr Moran uttered a final curse before falling down.
The witness told the court he heard about six shots fired before the man ran away.
He said nobody went to help Mr Moran as he was lying in a large pool of blood on the floor.
The court was also told one of Mr Moran’s friends suspected his life was in danger.
The female friend told the court she saw a car parked outside Mr Moran’s home on the morning he died.
She told the court she was suspicious of the car because there had been an attempted hit on “Tuppence” three months earlier.
The court heard she tried to call him but he did not answer his mobile.
Washington, March 17 (ANI): Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren have been photographed together for the first time since the scandal that linked the ace golfer to several mistresses.
The New York Post was said to have published the picture showing the pair on the grounds of what appeared to be their Isleworth home.
A witness reportedly told the paper not many words passed between the duo during their short walk, according to Fox News.
Woods recently announced his comeback to the greens following the revelation of his extra marital affairs, his public apology for infidelity and a trip to rehabilitation centre for sex addiction.
He is due to return to the golf course at the Masters tournament in April. (ANI)
Adelaide Magistrates Court has heard a driver who crashed into parked cars lied to a witness by claiming to be a police officer.
Nikolas Angelou, 38, of Croydon Park has pleaded guilty to representing an officer and to driving offences.
Prosecutors told the court witnesses reported a four-wheel-drive swerving about in Carrington Street in the city last August before it crashed into a parked car.
Police said witnesses also saw Angelou driving erratically in George Street at Parkside and a crash into two more parked cars later the same evening.
Prosecutor Kayleen Summers told the court that Angelou approached a witness to the first crash and said he was a police officer, before he drove off from the scene.
“It’s OK, I’m going to fix it, I’m a policeman and I will take care of it,” he is alleged to have said.
“He then left the scene without leaving any further details,” Ms Summers told the court.
It heard he initially reported his car stolen, then later owned up to police that he had been driving it.
The prosecutor said Angelou had been disqualified from driving until further order and told police he panicked when he hit the parked car because he was scared he would go to jail.
The court heard he had prior convictions for drink driving and driving under disqualification, for which he had been given a suspended sentence.
The latest sentencing was adjourned until April, when police are expected to lay a breach of bond charge.
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