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Daft Punk dominate at Grammys
Associated Press, Published on 27/01/2014
» LOS ANGELES - Daft Punk's electronic-funk grooves have won big at the Grammys.
Myanmar mobs kill 40 Muslims
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2014
» Buddhist mobs killed at least 40 Muslims when they stormed a village in western Myanmar last week, hunting down residents with knives, a human rights group said, citing witness testimony and a wide network of local sources.
Indian officials 'ordered' gang-rape
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2014
» Police in India's West Bengal state say a young woman has been gang raped on the orders of a village council because she fell in love with a man from a different religion.
Nay Pyi Taw now less of a ghost town
Associated Press, Published on 11/12/2013
» NAY PYI TAW — Watched around the clock, bathed twice a day and otherwise pampered, five white elephants are munching on choice greenery in Myanmar's vast, remote and surreal capital. Above them soars a shimmering, gold-plated pagoda.
Four men given death sentences in India gang rape
Associated Press, Published on 13/09/2013
» An Indian court Friday sentenced to death four men for the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the rampant mistreatment of women and the government's inability to deal with crime.
Sentences on Friday in Delhi rape
Associated Press, Published on 11/09/2013
» NEW DELHI — An Indian judge has announced that sentences will be handed down Friday in the fatal gang rape of a young New Delhi woman, as the prosecutor called for the four convicted rapists to be executed and defense lawyers asked for leniency.
Convicted Delhi rapist: I am innocent
Associated Press, Published on 11/09/2013
» NEW DELHI — One of the men convicted in the fatal December gang rape of a young New Delhi woman has called out his innocence as a police van he was riding in pulled into the courthouse where he and three other men are expected to be sentenced.
Four men convicted in India gang rape
Associated Press, Published on 10/09/2013
» NEW DELHI - An Indian court has convicted four men in the December gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi.
Protesters storm Muslim Brotherhood HQ
Associated Press, Published on 01/07/2013
» Protesters stormed and ransacked the Cairo headquarters of President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group early Monday, in an attack that could spark more violence as demonstrators gear up for a second day of mass rallies aimed at forcing the Islamist leader from power.
Malaysian 'married child rape victim'
Associated Press, Published on 23/05/2013
» KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Prosecutors are pursuing rape charges against a 40-year-old Malaysian who allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl and then married her.