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| CORRECTED - "I'm scared to sleep", tearful Pistorius tells court | |  (Corrects year in paragraph 23) By David Dolan PRETORIA (Reuters) - His voice trembling with emotion, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defence on Monday, saying the Valentine's Day shooting of his girlfriend last year had left him sleepless, terrified and plagued by nightmares. The disabled South African track star, on trial for murder, apologised to the mother of model Reeva Steenkamp, saying he had fired four times through a toilet door at his luxury Pretoria home in the belief he was defending her from an intruder. Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, was hit by at least three rounds, one of which - to the head - killed her almost instantly, the court has heard. "I was simply trying to protect Reeva," Pistorius told the Pretoria High Court at the start of his testimony.
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| Egypt court upholds jailing of leading pro-democracy activists | |  By Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld the jailing of three leading figures of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, tightening a crackdown on secular activists opposed to the army-backed government. Critics see their case as an attempt to stifle the kind of political street activism common since the uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak three years ago, as Egypt prepares for presidential elections next month. A court handed down three-year sentences to the three liberal activists, Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel, in December for protesting without permission and assaulting the police. The European Union and the United States had urged Egypt to reconsider the verdict.
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| Philadelphia boy, 2, fatally shoots 11-year-old sister -police | | | A 2-year-old boy has fatally shot his 11-year-old sister after finding a gun in their home, Philadelphia police said on Monday. Investigators believe a male friend of the children's mother left the gun on top of a refrigerator in the family's home in the Mantua neighborhood on the city's west side, but it was moved to a bedroom where four siblings were playing on Saturday morning. The bullet struck the victim, identified as Jamara Stevens, in the arm and traveled to her chest. Police transported Stevens to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she died. |
| Accused Colorado movie theater gunman seeks change of venue | |  Lawyers for the man charged with mass murder in the 2012 shooting rampage that left 12 people dead at a Colorado movie theater have asked that his upcoming trial be moved out of the suburban Denver county where the case has been prosecuted. Defense attorneys argued in their motion for a change of venue that James Holmes cannot get a fair trial in Arapahoe County because of "pervasive media coverage" of the case locally and "the undeniable impact of the tragedy on the community itself." The trial is scheduled to open in October.
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| Major dies in accident during operation in Kashmir | | | Srinagar, April 7 (IANS) A major of the Indian army died in a accident Monday while on a operation against separatist guerrillas in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, a defence spokesman said. According to the defence spokesman, a unit of the counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles had launched a cordon and search operation in Panchalthan (Chaugam) village of Anantnag, during which Maj.Rahul Singh sustained a fatal head injury due to 10-15 metre fall caused by extreme slippery terrain due to the inclement weather. "The accident happened at 11 a.m. when Maj. Rahul Singh, braving the extremely inclement weather, led his troops as part of the operation. |
| Woman, three associates held for robbing businessman | | | Zoya, 19, her boy friend Sunil Kumar Gupta, 23, and their associates Sunil Kumar, 28 and Rinku Sharma, 25, were Sunday nabbed from different areas of south Delhi for robbing a businessman Deskyong Namgyal April 1. Namgyal of Green Park in south Delhi told police that on the intervening night of March 30 and 31, he met Zoya at a discotheque of a reputed five-star hotel in south Delhi where they exchanged their mobile numbers. "April 1, Zoya called Namgyal, asking him to meet her at a place in south Delhi. |
| Rs.4.4-crore worth red sandalwood seized in Bihar | | | Patna, April 7 (IANS) A consignment of red sandalwood valued at Rs.4.4 crore was Monday seized from a vehicle in Bihar's Araria district and the driver and helper detained. |
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