Assange seeks political asylum

On Tuesday night WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange applied for political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after failing in his bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. The 40-year-old Australian is currently inside the building in Knightsbridge, having gone there on Tuesday afternoon to request asylum under the United Nations Human Rights Declaration. The country's foreign minister Ricardo Patino told a press conference...

Mexican Mafia Fugitive Caught in Tijuana

A fugitive from Los Angeles, who is a known member of the Mexican Mafia gang, was apprehended in Tijuana this week. 52 year old José Luis Montellano was wanted with arrests warrants for armed robbery, bank robbery, and probation violations. Municipal police worked with the international department of the state police, as well as the U.S. Marshals, to apprehend the suspect. Montellano was found in the colonia Salvatierra, which is on the southwest...

online pharmacy pioneer arrested in U.S.

Andrew Strempler facing charges in FloridaAndrew Strempler, the founder of Mediplan Pharmacy, appeared in a federal court in Miami on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported. (Fred Greenslade/Winnipeg Free Press/Canadian Press)Andrew Strempler, a Manitoba man who was one of the...

New England drug investigation leads to 4 arrests

Four men have been arrested in what authorities say was an investigation of a major marijuana distribution ring in Connecticut. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says it seized more than 20 pounds of dried marijuana, 130 plants, 10 guns and $350,000 in cash from homes in Danbury and New Fairfield. Alexander Lappin of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Matt Michelsen of Danbury; and Nicholas Calamaras and Sean Salasevicius of New Fairfield are charged with...

A pregnant woman from Birmingham has appeared in court in Pakistan after being arrested last month with heroin worth £3.2m in several suitcases.

Khadija Shah, 25, has been held in custody with her daughter, aged four, and her five-year-old son.She says she had been on holiday in Pakistan with relatives and had no idea what was in the cases.The BBC's Orla Guerin said if Miss Shah was convicted she could face the death penalty.Miss...

Death Row Inmate Sues to be Executed

 Gary HaugenOregonian Gary Haugen is having trouble making up his mind whether he wants to live or die. The 49-year-old prisoner has been on death row since 2007 for fatally beating and stabbing fellow inmate David Polin in 2003, while Haugen was serving a life sentence without...

Chinese woman gets death for infant trafficking

A Chinese woman, who headed a group which trafficked 223 infants, has been awarded the death sentence. Jiang Kaizhi, the prime culprit of the infant trafficking ring, organised a group of people to abduct babies in Yunnan province and sell them in Henan province, China Daily reported. Jiang would get about 30,000 yuan (about $4,700) for selling a baby boy while the profit for trafficking a baby girl was over 20,000 yuan, the court said. Thirty-five...

Rodney King dead at 47

Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday, authorities and his fiancee said. He was 47. Police in Rialto, California, received a 911 call from King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, about 5:25 a.m., said Capt. Randy DeAnda. Responding officers found King at the bottom of the pool, removed him and attempted to...