A small US run Bagram Air base in Afghanistan was attacked by the Taliban early Wednesday which killed at least 10 militants, an American contractor and wounding nine troops, according to a statement released by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. The attack happened only a day after a deadly bomb attack which killed at least 19 people and injured scores of others in the heart of Kabul.
The students at Jamie’s House Charter School in Houston,Texas all thought that it was a joke when their teacher backed one of their classmates into a corner, but it turned into a shocking and brutal beating that was caught on tape.
The Catoosa County Superior Court jury acquitted the 37 years old Tonya Craft, a former Georgia kindergarten teacher, on each of 22 charges of child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation, Tuesday.
A Libyan plane carrying over 100 souls had crashed in Tripoli today. Airport officials were quoted saying only a boy survived the said accident. South Africa’s department of international relations and civil aviation are still working out on the remnants of the shattered plane as of this writing. The crash occurred this Wednesday morning.
Voting hours is over. Election-related violence tripled in numbers and are all over the news. The troubles that the first ever automated election brought is now evident. Now, the whole Filipino nation awaits on who will be the next leader of their sovereign country. Many are hooked on their television screens, radio and internet to get updates on who is leading and who is losing, especially in the presidential race.
After being convicted late last year on two counts of mail and wire fraud by using his office to help a businessman in a horse venture, former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was sentenced to spend two years in prison by a federal judge, Thursday, by depriving New Yorkers of his “honest services.”
Nigeria has a new president. Nigeria’s vice president and acting leader Goodluck Jonathan sworn in Thursday morning hours after the death of their president Umaru Yar’Adua Wednesday after battling a lengthy illness. Although it has been three months since Jonathan assumed leadership, it was just this Thursday that he was able to put on a sash bearing the green, yellow and white colors of Nigeria to signify that he had taken over the presidency from the deceased Yar’Adua.
American-born Huma Asif Mian is the wife of Faisal Shahzad who federal authorities arrested Tuesday with terrorism in his failed attempt to use a weapon of mass destruction as he tried to bomb Times Square last Saturday. Reports say that Mian is Shahzad’s ticket to American citizenship in April 17, 2009.
Police arrested University of Virginia varsity lacrosse player George Huguely on first degree murder hours after the body of his on-and-off girlfriend and also a UVA lacrosse player, Yeardley Love, was found May 3, Monday.
As a result of the weather system that poured down last Saturday, an overwhelming rain came down and the city of Nashville is seeing major flooding that destroyed numerous infrastructures and left non-driveable submerged roads. The rain that fell reached as much as 13 inches of water by 8:30 p.m. Sunday, the highest amount ever recorded and make the flooding one of the worst storms ever seen in years.
