Italian police charge homeless local with murder of US exchange student

Friday, July 8, 2016 Map showing locations pertaining to the robbery of Beau Solomon. Image: OpenStreetMap. Map showing scene and bar locations pertaining to the robbery of Beau Solomon. Image: OpenStreetMap. On Tuesday, Italian police charged homeless forty-year-old Massimo Galioto with the aggravated murder of Beau Solomon, a college student from Wisconsin, US. The police arrested the man after finding […]

At least 53 killed, over 90 injured in Shanghai apartment fire

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 China’s Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that at least 53 people were killed in Shanghai during a deadly fire. The blaze, which occurred on Monday at 2:15 p.m. CST (0615 UTC), consumed a 28-story high-rise apartment building in the city’s Jing’an District. The building was being renovated at the time of the fire, and was home […]

U.S. superbug expected to emerge in Canada

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Two Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, magnified 50,000 times. An infectious superbug spreading in the United States is to “emerge in force” in Canada, doctors fear. The bacteria have been reported popping up in day care centers and locker rooms across the U.S. Usually elderly or very ill hospital patients get the disease. More than 2 million U.S. […]

AEK Athens fans damage ferry-boat in Greece

Thursday, May 11, 2006 Angry fans of the AEK Athens football team damaged the ferry “Ierapetra” during the route from Heraklio, Crete, to the port of Rafina in Attica. About 700 AEK supporters boarded the ferry after the end of the Greek football cup final between Olympiacos and AEK which took place in Crete. The victory of Olympiacos over AEK, […]

Professional wrestler Chris Benoit and family found dead

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Canadian professional wrestler Chris Benoit, who performed for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), was found dead, along with his wife Nancy, 43, and their son Daniel, 7, in their home in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday. Police are calling the deaths a “double murder-suicide.” “There are no further details at this time, other than the Benoit family residence […]

Canadian jail inmates used nail clippers to escape, report finds

Friday, March 13, 2009 According to a government report released on Tuesday, six inmates of a Regina, Saskatchewan jail managed to escape last summer after spending four months using nail clippers and other makeshift instruments to break out. We didn’t think we would get away with it The report stated that no fewer than 87 prison guards had supervised the […]

Four teenagers killed in car crash in Birmingham, England

Saturday, November 14, 2009 Four teenage boys are dead after a car crash in Birmingham, England. The collision, which occurred at around 0345 GMT in the suburb of Moseley, involved four boys crashing a blue Rover into a wall on Salisbury Road. The ages of the adolescents are reported as 15, 16, and 17; the age of the fourth teenager […]