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| Victim's mother calls Boston bomber 'despicable' at sentencing | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The mother of one of the three people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, speaking at the Wednesday hearing where a U.S. judge will formally sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death, said the convicted bomber made "despicable" choices. The same federal jury that earlier this year found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath voted in May to sentence him to death by lethal injection. "You went down the wrong road," Patricia Campbell, whose 29-year-old daughter Krystle was one of three people killed by the twin pressure-cooker bombs, told Tsarnaev, who carried out one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. |
| Computer error a possible cause of Poland airline outage - prosecutors | | | Polish prosecutors are looking into whether the outage which grounded dozens of jets operated by Polish airline Lot at Warsaw's main airport on Sunday may have been caused by a computer system error, a spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. The prosecutor's spokesman said computer error was one of the versions being examined. Asked about the possibility of computer error having been the cause, the carrier's spokesman said on Wednesday: "The current state of our knowledge indicates that outside interference must have taken place." Around 1,400 passengers were stranded at Warsaw's Chopin airport when the flight plan system went down for around five hours on Sunday. |
| About 40 killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria - witnesses | | | About 40 people have been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants who torched houses and shot people as they fled in two villages in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, witnesses told Reuters on Wednesday. The attackers, who arrived on motorcycles and vehicles mounted with guns, shot residents and looted shops in the villages of Debiro Biu and Debiro Hawul late on Monday night and into Tuesday morning, the witnesses said. Details of the attack did not emerge for several hours due to poor telecommunications networks in the remote villages in northeast Nigeria, a region in which Boko Haram has killed thousands in a six-year bid to set up an Islamic state. |
| German robbers chased away by shopkeeper wielding vacuum cleaner | | | A German shop assistant in a late-night convenience store chased away two armed robbers demanding money with the hose of a vacuum cleaner she was using to clean her shop in Berlin's Neukoelln district, police said on Wednesday. One of the two would-be robbers was brandishing a pistol and demanded she turn over the money from her cash register in the attempted robbery just after midnight on Tuesday. "They then fled without the loot," Berlin police said in a statement. |
| Feature - Dreams for safer Rio fade a year before Olympics | |  By Stephen Eisenhammer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - When shots rang out last month in the first gun battle in seven years between Rio de Janeiro police and drug traffickers in Santa Marta, its reputation as a peaceful slum with stunning views and a popular samba night was shattered. No one was injured in the maze of alleys and steps of the "favela" that is home to 6,000 people, but the shootout raised concerns a police campaign - for which Santa Marta was the model - is running out of steam a year before half a million visitors arrive for the 2016 Olympics. The shootout, in the wake of the stabbing deaths of a cyclist and a German tourist, sparked fears that after years of progress, violence was on the rise again in Brazil's postcard city.
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| Indonesia bill allows MPs hundreds of millions in setback to war on graft | | | Indonesia's parliament voted to allow MPs use of nearly a billion dollars in state funds to develop their constituencies, which a minister said on Wednesday would only encourage more graft in one of the world's most corrupt countries. At the same time, the house pressed ahead with debating a bill that would further weaken the country's anti-corruption agency. Indonesia consistently ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world, according to Transparency International, which also rates its parliament, the house of representatives, as one of its most corrupt public institutions. |
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