Anger as rapist avoids deportation

The Tories and Liberal Democrats have called for an urgent explanation from the Government over how a convicted rapist facing deportation was allowed to stay in Britain to get married. A senior judge pointed to apparent confusion in the Home Office when making his decision over the case of Alphonse Semo, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Monday he won a High Court battle to remain in the UK for his wedding just hours before he was due to board a plane back to Africa. Mr...

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21 Babies Killed in China

The bodies of 21 babies have been discovered in plastic bags in a river in eastern China, and authorities suspect they were dumped there by local hospitals, state media reported. An initial investigation showed that eight of the 21 babies wore identification tags on their feet tracing them back to Jining Medical College Hospital in Shandong province, according to the People's Daily website. The other 13 were unidentified. Three of the eight were admitted to the hospital in critical condition,...

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China Disable Google

Chinese censors have disabled all Google searches on the mainland, blocking the US company's Hong Kong servers from delivering results. In almost every major Chinese city, users reported that trying to access Google searches returned an error page. The hiatus began at around 5pm on Tuesday in China. Although it was still possible to access Google's websites, searches on any topic delivered an error message. Google was unable to immediately confirm the cause of the problem,...

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Nasa To Help Toyota's Problem

U.S. auto safety regulators said on Tuesday they will tap the expertise of the country's top space and aeronautics experts to analyze Toyota Motor Corp's electronic throttles to see if they are behind the reports of unintended acceleration that have hounded the automaker. The news that NASA scientists will join the probe came as Toyota, reeling from a recall crisis sparked by the acceleration reports, launched a task force aimed at regaining consumer trust and pledged to...

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"Responsible will be Caught" - Putin

Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday to "drag out of the sewer" the masterminds of the twin suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system that killed 39 people and left scores wounded. The powerful prime minister spoke as Russia mourned the dead from Monday's attacks; teary passengers lit candles and left carnations at both of the central stations that were hit. The blasts shocked a country that had grown accustomed to such violence being confined to a restive southern...

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Core Group Questions Obama's Call

President Barack Obama says he believes the Tea Party is built around a "core group" of people who question whether he is a U.S. citizen and believe he is a socialist. But beyond that, Obama tells NBC he recognizes the movement involves "folks who have legitimate concerns" about the national debt and whether the government is taking on too many difficult issues simultaneously. In an interview broadcast Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, Obama said he feels "there's...

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Obama Approved Bill

Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process. Both domestic priorities came in one bill, pushed through by Democrats in the House and Senate and signed into law by a beaming president. The new law makes a series of changes to the massive health insurance reform bill that he signed into law with even greater...

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Stephenie Meyers New Book

Attention "Twilight" fans: Stephenie Meyer has a new book coming out. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will release "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" on June 5. The novella is told from the viewpoint of Bree, a newborn vampire featured in "Eclipse." That's one of the books in Meyer's best-selling teen-vampire saga. Meyer says in a statement Tuesday the novella had originally been planned for "The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide."...

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Christian Militia in US confirmed

The U.S. attorney leading the prosecution against nine suspected members of a Michigan-based Christian militia says authorities "needed to arrest them and take them down." Barbara McQuade said Tuesday that federal investigators had been watching the group called Hutaree for some time and felt compelled to act based on an imminent threat against police. McQuade says the "most troubling" finding was that Hutaree members plotted to make a false 911 call, kill...

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Sentenced Death

A judge on Tuesday sentenced serial killer Rodney Alcala to death before hearing emotional testimony from the families of four women and a 12-year-old girl he strangled in the 1970s. The sentence was announced three weeks after a jury recomended death for the 66-year-old Alcala, who was convicted last month of five counts of first-degree murder after a bizarre and sometimes surreal trial. After the sentencing, Bruce Barcomb, the brother of victim Jill Barcomb,...

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