Police say they have recovered the final missing body parts of a British teenage girl who was stabbed to death and dismembered in central Brazil.
Police inspector Ailton Ligorio says authorities spent days collecting the remains of 17-year-old Cara Marie Burke near a river outside the city of Goiania. Her torso was found last week in a suitcase next to another river.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea will not rule out a nuclear testas long as Washington is hostile toward Pyongyang, a newspaper linkedto the communist nation said Saturday.
There are growing concerns, bolstered by reports of suspiciousactivity, that Pyongyang may be planning to follow up its recentmissile launches with a nuclear test. Pyongyang claims to havenuclear weapons but hasn't performed any known test.
"We can't say for sure that North Korea will not conduct a nucleartest as part of strengthening its self-
defense," said Choson Sinbo, a newspaper published in Japan by apro-North Korean group linked to Pyongyang.
"The full responsibility …
Inimex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is one step closer to conducting clinical trials of its innate defense regulator drugs, thanks to a successful Series B financing. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company raised $22 million to advance its portfolio, which includes a number of potential products aimed at combating antibiotic resistance and inflammation. Inimex is developing a series of …
Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer
From the tar-covered roof of his new building on River Street, Joe Fama surveyed some of the best and worst of the city's architecture.
To the north there's the elegant Rice Building from 1871, with its distinctive flatiron design. Across River Street, to the west, stands a row of 19th-century commercial buildings, still tricked out with "Age of Innocence" facades.
Then there's another, less aesthetically pleasing Troy: a parking garage, a bar that resembles a video arcade, and, a block to the north, the bunkerlike edifice of City Hall itself.
"Troy has lost a lot. I saw the tail end of the destruction. …
CAIRO (AP) — A senior prison officer was killed by his subordinates as he tried to stop mass prison breaks during Egypt's popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian rights group said Monday.
The case of Mohammed el-Batran is key to the mystery surrounding the mass prison break in Egypt in one weekend in late January, when nearly a quarter of Egypt's prisoners escaped.
Some allege the mass prison break was engineered by an embattled regime trying to cling to power by creating anarchy, though other testimony suggests there may not have been a single guiding hand.
Chaos struck Egypt's prisons as inmates watched the uprising against Mubarak unfold on …
O.J. story, expanded playoffs factored into early returns
One month into the new season, ABC and CBS already are making moves to strengthen their schedules, while NBC and Fox contemplate following suit.
One factor all the network programers are considering is the somewhat atypical start to the season. So far they have seen major news stories (most notably the O.J. Simpson trial) cut into prime time, as well as the first-ever expanded playoffs for baseball.
Another factor is the sheer volume of new shows 42 in all--on the four networks. Although some observers have suggested that all of the new shows have been hurt by the feeding frenzy, others say the …
An Italian police officer shot herself in the head in an apparent suicide attempt Saturday outside a stadium where a soccer match was being played, the ANSA news agency and officials said.
The 42-year-old woman was on duty outside the stadium in Treviso, in northeastern Italy, when she shot herself, the city's chief police official Filippo Lapi said, confirming earlier reports by ANSA.
She was hospitalized and was in critical condition, Lapi said. ANSA said …
