| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| 'Glee' star Mark Salling indicted on federal child porn charges | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Mark Salling, who had a supporting role as a high school athlete-turned-singer in the TV series "Glee," was indicted on Friday on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography, officials said. The 33-year-old Salling has agreed to turn himself in on June 3 to face the charges filed in federal court in Los Angeles, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the region said in a statement. Representatives for Salling, a Los Angeles resident, and his attorney, did not immediately return calls.
|
| Spanish journalist held in Colombia freed, two others to be liberated soon | | | A Spanish journalist kidnapped by Colombia's ELN rebels said on Friday she is safe after going missing six days ago in restive Norte de Santander province, but declined to give details on her disappearance. Salud Hernandez is one of three journalists who vanished over the past week while working in El Tarra municipality in the largely lawless northeastern province. "I'm perfectly fine." Hernandez said she would hold a press conference later to tell the story of her disappearance, adding that the two other reporters who vanished in the province will be freed on Friday or Saturday. |
| Amber Heard accuses estranged husband Johnny Depp of domestic violence | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Amber Heard obtained a restraining order on Friday against her estranged husband Johnny Depp after accusing the actor of verbal, emotional and physical abuse, days after she filed for divorce to end their 15-month marriage. Heard, 30, said in court filings that Depp, 52, was abusive to her throughout their marriage, culminating in an argument on Saturday night in which he hurled a cell phone into her face and shattered various objects in her apartment. The filings includes pictures of Heard's injured face.
|
| No new signal from EgyptAir jet since day of crash, search intensifies | |  By Eric Knecht and Tim Hepher CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) - No new radio signal has been received from an EgyptAir jet since the day it crashed in the Mediterranean last week, sources close to the investigation said on Friday. A French official said the vessel would arrive on Sunday or Monday.
|
| More than 2,000 boat migrants rescued off Italy, 45 dead | | | By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - At least 45 migrants died in a shipwreck and more than 2,000 were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday, the coastguard said, as the number of immigrants coming to Europe via Italy soared again. Around 14,000 people were taken off often flimsy vessels over the whole week, the United Nations and the coastguard said, and hundreds may have drowned, survivors and boat crews added, though there are no official estimates of total casualties. Italian Navy ship Vega plucked about 135 people off a "half-submerged" large rubber boat in one of 17 operations coordinated by the coastguard on Friday. |
| U.S. judge sentences Vietnamese man to 40 years for al Qaeda affiliate support | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Vietnamese-born man who U.S. authorities say was instructed by a top figure with al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate to carry out a suicide attack at London's Heathrow Airport was sentenced on Friday to 40 years in prison. Minh Quang Pham, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan after pleading guilty in January to charges he provided material support to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. |
| Rio de Janeiro police investigate alleged gang rape that has shocked Brazilians | |  By Brad Brooks RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro police are investigating allegations that more than 30 men and boys raped a 16-year-old girl, officials said on Friday, as outrage spread in the host city for the Olympics and reverberated across the country. The reported assault was discovered after one of the suspects posted to Twitter a video of the nude, semi-conscious youth, with a few men brazenly insulting the girl, showing their faces, and one man heard saying, "more than 30 impregnated her!" The Twitter account where the video was posted has since been suspended. Police said the girl told them more than 30 men had assaulted her, but they could not yet confirm how many took part in the alleged rape, as they are still investigating.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment