
THE remains of the “first Europeans” discovered at an archaeological site in northern Spain have revealed that these prehistoric humans were cannibals who particularly liked the flesh of children.
“We know that they practiced cannibalism,” Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, one of the co-directors of the Atapuerca project, said.
A study of the remains revealed that they [...]
June 30, 2009 | Posted in
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Western Michigan University student William K. Bradley has been sentenced for larceny in a building.
He stole a computer. From the Kalamazoo County jail.
Where he already was serving a sentence in a different case.
Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Gary Giguere Jr. sentenced Bradley on Monday, telling the Kalamazoo resident his jailhouse theft was “the dumbest crime I’ve [...]
June 30, 2009 | Posted in
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A WOULD-BE thief made the worst mistake of his career after breaking into the house of a retired Army boxer.
Gregory McCalium, 23, fronted court yesterday with a black eye and a fat lip after he was busted – and subsequently bashed – by 71-year-old Frank Corti in Mr Corti’s house in Oxford, UK.
Mr Corti said [...]
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SIX people have been killed after two gas-filled railway tank cars exploded in the northern Italian city of Viareggio.
Emergency workers at the scene said that 40 people had been injured in the blast.
Two carriages transporting gas canisters exploded after an apparent derailment shortly after leaving the Viareggio station.
The carriages tore through several neighbouring homes, causing [...]
June 29, 2009 | Posted in
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GLOBAL conman Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison in the US for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.
US District Judge Denny Chin handed down the sentence in New York today.
Defence attorneys had sought 12 years, while prosecutors wanted the maximum. The federal probation department had recommended 50 years.
The judge called the [...]
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IT WASN’T exactly a candle-lit affair, but a cosy dinner between Natalie Imbruglia and Prince Harry has caused a stir in the UK.
The pair, close friends since Harry’s split from Chelsy Davy, met up at the Hard Rock Calling event at London’s Hyde Park.
They watched Las Vegas band The Killers from the side of the [...]
June 29, 2009 | Posted in
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RELATIVES of a Pakistani teenager who eloped and married without parental consent shot her dead in a raid on her new home which also killed her husband and in-laws, police said.
Dressed in police uniforms, dozens of relatives attacked the bridegroom’s house in the district of Charsadda, in North West Frontier Province.
“The assailants took the bridegroom [...]
June 29, 2009 | Posted in
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AT least 18 people including six children were killed after they were struck by lightning in the east Indian state of Bihar, officials say.
Around 30 people were struck overnight by bolts of lightning across Bihar, and those that were injured were receiving treatment in hospital, State Disaster Management Minister Devesh Chand Thakur said today.
“The children [...]
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NEW Zealand police have shot dead a wheelchair-bound suicidal gunman after he fired on police, hitting an officer in the head. The 40-year-old paraplegic man fired more than 100 rounds from a shotgun and .308 “indiscriminately” down Wadhurst Place, Burnside, about 9pm last night police said.
North Canterbury District Commander, Inspector David Lawry, said the man suffered [...]
June 28, 2009 | Posted in
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A 6-year-old Massachusetts girl riding her bicycle was kidnapped by a neighbor who tried to rape her, but she managed to escape from his apartment despite being in leg shackles, a state prosecutor said.
The girl was found Saturday afternoon as police searched the apartment complex in Hanover, about 20 miles southeast of Boston, where she [...]
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