LONDON – TWO of Britain’s leading football commentators were reprimanded by their TV network and taken off the air on Monday after making sexist remarks off-microphone about two female match officials and West Ham executive Karren Brady. Andy Gray and Richard Keys came under fire from all angles on Monday for their derogatory comments about …
MOSCOW – An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing 31 people and wounding about 130, officials said. The Russian president called it a terror attack. The state RIA Novosti news agency, citing law enforcement sources, said the mid-afternoon explosion at Domodedovo Airport may have been caused by …
SEOUL – NORTH Korea this month publicly executed two of its citizens for handling propaganda leaflets floated across the border by South Korean groups, one of the activists said on Monday. An army officer who pocketed dollar bills enclosed with the leaflets was shot along with a 45-year-old woman who concealed one of the flyers, …
FOR five years, a girl did not tell anyone that she had been raped by her father – until her teacher discussed fairytales during an English lesson. The teacher, who used the story of Little Red Riding Hood to illustrate the dangers of talking to strangers, noticed that the Primary 6 pupil looked upset when …
AN 18-YEAR-OLD girl was slashed 18 times with a pen knife during a botched robbery at her home in Kota Baru, Malaysia, reported Harian Metro. Ainal Mardiah Mahmud said that during the 2.30pm incident, she had just reached home after visiting her grandmother when she found two men in the living room. ‘They looked shocked …
VIENNA – A MAN who robs banks wearing a rubber mask of US President Barack Obama has struck again, Austrian police said on Friday. The disguised thief robbed a bank in the town of Handenberg in Upper Austria just before the bank closed at 6pm (1700 GMT, 1am Singapore time), police said in statement. Police …
Guidelines made public last Friday that restrict devotees to singing – no music or drums to be played – have drawn varied reactions. The Hindu Endowments Board (HEB), which announced the guidelines, said it has received a “handful” of queries from devotees seeking clarification. A Facebook page, Bring The Thaipusam Beat Back, was set up …
PHILADELPHIA – A DOCTOR whose abortion clinic was described as a filthy, foul-smelling ‘house of horrors’ that was overlooked by regulators for years was charged on Wednesday with murder, accused of delivering seven babies alive and then using scissors to kill them. In a nearly 300-page grand jury report filled with ghastly, stomach-turning detail, prosecutors …
ONE of a 13-year-old girl’s multiple sex partners was given 15 months’ supervised probation on Wednesday. Full-time national serviceman Loy Zhen Ge was a 17-year-old student when he had sex with the girl at her home in April 2008. They had become acquainted through the Internet website Friendster the previous month, a Community Court heard. …