Abducted Assam cement firm executive escapes in Shillong

GUWAHATI – The kidnapped executive of a cement company made a dramatic appearance in Meghalaya capital Shillong eight hours after he was abducted at gunpoint from near Assam’s main city of Guwahati, police said Friday.

A police spokesperson said Narendra Nimodia, director of Star Cement, a local brand in Assam, jumped out of the car taking …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Mumbai ACP’s son, daughter-in-law shoot themselves

MUMBAI – The son and daughter-in-law of a high-ranking Mumbai police officer allegedly committed suicide by shooting themselves here early Friday, police said.

“The blood-spattered bodies of Abhijit Kurane (28) and his wife Ashwini (21) were found this morning in their bedroom,” Additional Police Commissioner Ramrao Pawar told mediapersons from the site of the tragedy in … Read more >>.

Wikileaks founder admits having sex with accuser

LONDON – Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, has admitted he had sexual relations with one of two Swedish women who have accused him of sex crimes.

Assange said he had consensual sex more than once with a woman who has accused him of molestation, the Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
“I say the same thing … Read more : Wikileaks founder admits having sex with accuser.

Mistaken alcohol use kills baby during surgery

NEW YORK – A seven-month-old baby died after doctors at a hospital in the US flushed his system with alcohol instead of saline solution during a heart surgery.

The incident, termed as a terrible mistake, occurred while Tressel Meinardi underwent heart surgery at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio Aug 21, the Herald Sun … Original article on : Mistaken alcohol use kills baby during surgery.

Another ISI agent held in Tripura

AGARTALA – An agent of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been arrested by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the India-Bangladesh border in west Tripura, police said here Friday.

BSF troopers detained ISI agent Nayeem Ahmed Mamoon, 22, from Lankamura border on the outskirts of Agartala Thursday night while he was crossing the border …. Read the original article  : Another ISI agent held in Tripura.

Tar balls, robberies mar Goa’s beach parties

PANAJI – The run-up to Goa’s tourism season, beginning next month, could not have got off to a worse start.

With slimy tar balls resulting from an oil spill leaving oily scars across beaches over the last few days, several robberies have created fear psychosis among tourists.
A Pune-based tourist couple was robbed at … Read this article on Gaea Times at : Tar balls, robberies mar Goa’s beach parties.

Suicide bomber hits Tajik police office; 25 injured

Suicide blast at Tajik police office injures 25

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – A suicide car bomb blast on Friday tore through police offices in Tajikistan’s second-largest city, injuring 25 people, local officials said.
Tajikistan’s Deputy Interior Minister Sharif Nazarov told The Associated Press the car filled with explosives hit the offices of the police organized-crime division in Khujand … Read more : Suicide bomber hits Tajik police office; 25 injured.

Earl causes NC road closing, power outages as hurricane rain and wind reaches into Virginia

Earl’s gusts, rains lash Outer Banks, reach VA

BUXTON, N.C. – Hurricane Earl’s powerful gusts and driving rains are churning over the Outer Banks of North Carolina and starting to be felt in southeastern Virginia.
National Weather Service meterologist Jeremy Schulz said early Friday morning that rain bands stretched about 140 miles inland in North Carolina and [..] Read the original article: here.

Hurricane Earl scoots past NC’s Outer Banks; Nantucket and Cape Cod could get the brunt next

Earl weakens but still powerful as it scoots by NC

BUXTON, N.C. – Hurricane Earl churned past the North Carolina Outer Banks and its powerful gusts and driving rains were starting to be felt in southeastern Virginia early Friday, the beginning of at least 24 hours of stormy, windy weather along the East Coast.
Residents and officials …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

The great grandmom who fought a mugger

LONDON – A great grandmother in Britain became so angry when she got mugged that she pinned the man against a wall and demanded that he return her purse. “I’m no spring chicken,” she declared later.

Marion Walter, 77, fought back when the mugger attempted to snatch her purse from the back seat of her …. Original source  : The great grandmom who fought a mugger.

Australian ex-cop jailed for pushing wife off cliff

SYDNEY – A former police officer in Australia who murdered his wife by pushing her off a cliff was Friday jailed for 33 years.

Des Campbell, 52, who murdered his wife Janet, 49, by pushing her off a cliff, had married her only for her money, the prosecutor told the Supreme Court, adding that Janet had …. Original source  : Australian ex-cop jailed for pushing wife off cliff.

TSA: 1 in custody after suspicious item found in luggage at Miami airport, concourses closed

1 in custody at Miami airport; 4 concourses shut

MIAMI – Federal officials say a passenger has been taken into custody after screeners detected something suspicious in a checked bag at Miami International Airport.
A statement by the Transportation Security Administration says its investigators, a Miami-Dade police bomb squad and other law enforcement agencies were on the [..] Read the original article: here.

Bomb targeting police vehicle kills 1 officer, wounds 3 in northwest Pakistan

Bomb kills 1 police officer, wounds 3 in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Police say a roadside bomb has killed a police officer and wounded three others in northwest Pakistan.
Police official Shafiullah Khan said the bomb was detonated by remote control Friday as officers patrolled in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where floods have affected …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Bomb targeting police vehicle kills 1 officer, wounds 3 in northwest Pakistan.

All 13 crew members rescued from Gulf oil platform fire in chaos different from BP spill

Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill
NEW ORLEANS – Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Mostly notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don’t end …. Read the original article  : All 13 crew members rescued from Gulf oil platform fire in chaos different from BP spill.

Oil Rig Explosion Off The Louisiana Coast

NEW ORLEANS (GaeaTimes.com)- On Thursday an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana caught fire and triggered fear of a repetition of the British Petroleum’s Deep Horizon oil spill that had jeopardized the marine life and the lives of thousands of coastal area residents. Coincidentally the blast took place at about 200 miles west …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Oil Rig Explosion Off The Louisiana Coast.

4 killed in latest wave of forest fires in Russia

4 killed in Russian forest fires
MOSCOW – Russia’s emergencies ministry says forest fires in the country’s south have killed four people.

Forest fires plagued much of Russia during this summer’s unusual wave of withering heat and drought and cloaked Moscow in a pall of smoke in August have largely died down amid strong rains, but the …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Three cops suspended for assaulting their woman officer

LUCKNOW – Three traffic constables have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh for assaulting a woman police officer and dragging her over a distance while fleeing in their car after she caught them extorting money, police said Friday.

The three constables, who are yet to be arrested, roughed up Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Kalpana Saxena late …. Source article  : Three cops suspended for assaulting their woman officer.

When the Indus became a river of sorrow (Floods in Pakistan – I)

That the Indus will become the ‘Yellow river of sorrow’ for Pakistan and wreak havoc and destruction more unbearable than suicide bombings was inconceivable until the angry waters came flooding in in the early hours of July 29, 2010.

In the holy month of Ramadan fasting, over 30 million Pakistanis running helter skelter for food, water …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Three contract killers arrested in Raipur

RAIPUR – Police in Raipur have arrested three contract killers, among them a 15-year-old boy, from here, police said Friday.

Three people, who were paid to kill a cable businessman Sandeep Singh, were arrested Thursday night with arms, said Ajatshatru Bahadur Singh, additional superintendent of police (crime) of Raipur.
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Drunk driver takes wrong turn – ends up in police car park

LONDON – A drunk motorist in Britain was nabbed by police after he took a wrong turn and went straight into the car park of the police headquarters.

Edward Gallagher lost his bearing while driving back home from a night out with friends last month. He was spotted on a private road leading to the Central … Original source on Gaea Times at : Drunk driver takes wrong turn – ends up in police car park.