The US Supreme Court has a black death row acquitted of murdering a white woman because he was sentenced in 1987 by an all white jury. According to the Supreme Court, the prosecutors had unlawfully excluded African-Americans from jury service.
Certainly seventeen children were killed in an overnight fire in the sleeping accommodation of a Thai school girl. The girls were attacked in their sleep, according to the police by the fire.
A Malaysian student in Australia has spent about 4.6 million dollars (about 2.9 million) after they discovered she could stand indefinitely red at her bank. The woman thought in his own words that the money came from her wealthy parents reported Sunday.
The European Commission is 56 million euros to improve the reception of migrants in Greece. Part of the money is intended for interpreters and ICT equipment to handle the registration and asylum applications faster.
In the run up to the US presidential election spending Democrats and Republicans billions of dollars in ads that particular media plays into the hands. That concludes John Bailer, fund manager at The Boston Company Asset Management, a boutique of BNY Mellon.
A large and rare blue diamond was auctioned Wednesday for a record amount equivalent to nearly 51.3 million. The so-called Blue Oppenheimer is the largest and most valuable blue diamond ever offered at auction, Christie's auction house announced.
A Chinese couple have their wedding night spent with the copy of the Constitution of the Communist Party, a job of 17,000 words. Instead of a romantic first night the couple decided the government of President Xi Jinping to stabbing a shot in the arm.
A lingering mystery surrounding a lost Australian after half a century solved by the police. Australian police announced Saturday what happened to the missing Janina Wojcik since Christmas Eve 1962. The married woman left her home in Altona, a suburb of Melbourne that night and told her husband that she took a vacation. He gave her three months later as missing, because nothing more was heard of her.
The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah Sunni extremists designated Syria as a chief perpetrators of the militia movement, Mustafa Badreddine have slain. That reported to Hezbollah affiliated television broadcasting al-Manar Saturday in Beirut.
An American lucky won for the second time in his life the jackpot of one million dollars.
If everything goes according to plan, the Brazilian Senate is Wednesday at 14.00 (Dutch time) convened to vote on the question whether an impeachment is put in motion against President Dilma Rousseff. In mid-April, the Brazilian Lower House voted for it after days of debate. The Senate could be engaged according to Brazilian media until Thursday with the issue.
A 63-year-old American was Thursday found guilty by a jury in the murder of nine women and a girl in a period of over twenty years. According to US media, a court in Los Angeles will decide later whether the man gets the death penalty.
Donald Trump nothing seems able to stop to drag in the nomination of the Republican Party. His main opponent Ted Cruz last night threw in the towel after his loss in the primaries of Indiana.
France is 'as things now stand' against the trans-Atlantic trade agreement TTIP. That President Francois Hollande said Tuesday.
The residents of an Indonesian island were sure they had a sign given up when a 'angelic doll 'washed up on the beach. Rumors about the heavenly guide were soon the talk of the day. Local police took all the turmoil but nothing and wanted to nip in the bud the stories. Agents decided to examine the doll and came to a remarkable conclusion: the 'angel' showed an old doll.
A Russian cyber criminal has to pay US $ 6.9 million (almost EUR 6 million) to compensate victims. The 28-year-old maker of so-called malware has already three years in jail.
Facebook has last year's $ 4.26 million (3.7 million) was spent on the security of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In 2014, it cost $ 5.6 million (4.9 million euros) and in 2013 $ 2.65 million (2.3 million euros). In three years the company has therefore spent about 11 million euros to the safety of its founder.
Sex Rabbi Eliezer Berland is not on bail in South Africa. This was decided by the court, following a request by the lawyers of Berland.
From the brand new Russian spaceport Vostotsjni Wednesday for the first time launched a rocket. The 'cosmological dream in the far east, near the border with China, Russia has another launch site for space within their own borders. So far does the Russian space using the Baikonur base, but which is in Kazakhstan.
Norway refuses to accept the victory mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik recently booked in court. Breivik got right in a case about the strict regime that he goes to prison. Norway appeals.
A forty-German nurse has long been two years as a ship's doctor on cruise ships. He treated both people on board as crewmembers. He has spent at least five years long as a doctor in clinics in Berlin, is in charge of the Public Ministry in Berlin.
The Philip flippers duck were all frozen in the severe cold in Wisconsin. Fortunately for Philip Vicki Rabe Harrison, the new boss of the duck, new flippers be printed for him and can finally walk again the duck.
A phone for a new smartphone may have significant effects on a mortgage. The maximum mortgage may well turn out 16,000 euro lower, the Hypotheekshop calculates.
The Canadian authorities come up with a real plan,, 'to help the people of the indigenous community of Attawapiskat. The place has been rocked recently by a wave of suicide attempts.
Rescue workers in Japan are still searching for survivors of the earthquake that hit the country last week. So far counted 39 dead, but dozens of people are still missing. One of them is probably trapped under the rubble of several collapsed buildings. About a thousand people were injured and a quarter million people have been evacuated.
During another hunt for the Loch Ness monster was finally hit. Researchers found the sample to a depth of 180 meters. It was 10 meters long, the equipment noted. Further study and consultation of the archives showed that it went to a movie model that director Billy Wilder had used in 1969.
The global music industry has seen an increase in sales last year, after two decades of almost uninterrupted declines. That is due to the strong growth of streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Napster and Deezer, trade organization IFPI reported Tuesday.
A five-year-old German boy was found unharmed Saturday after a night alone had spent in a forest. The toddler was Friday with his mother walking in the woods near vohburg, north of Munich, when he set a piece rode ahead on his balance bike. The mother lost him momentarily out of sight and then only took back the balance bike.
