Mexicans soldiers guard Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, a top operative of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, in Mexico City, on November 7, 2011. Mexican army troops have arrested a top operative of the once-powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel in the northwestern state of Baja California. Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, alias “El Sillas”, and three associates were arrested over the weekend in the... 

The brutal gang rape of a British woman by five Afghan refugees has sparked a massive protest against illegal immigrants in a Serbian spa town. The 38-year-old woman – who bravely managed to film the attack on her mobile phone – was repeatedly raped after befriending a group of Afghan men in a park in Banja Koviljaca. Despite handing the video footage to police, only one alleged attacker... 

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard The Australian senate has endorsed a controversial pollution tax as part of policy adjustments aimed at reducing the country’s carbon emissions. On Tuesday, the senate passed the Clean Energy Act, which requires Australia’s coal-fired power stations as well as other major emitters to “pay to pollute” from July 1 next year. The move was... 

Held back: A police barrier stops the chanting 5,000-strong mob of mostly young men from going any further Thousands of far-right nationalists marched in Moscow today in a ‘Take Back Russia’ protest at Muslim migrants. Resentment is growing over the migrants from Russia’s Caucasus and the money the Kremlin sends to those troubled regions. Chanting ‘Russia for Russians’... 

Six members of an Israeli human trafficking ring, which operated in the Republic of Azerbaijan, are on trial in a special court in Ukraine. Three members of the ring, which specialized in selling body organs from trafficked victims, worked at a clinic in Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku, IRIB reported on Friday. Run by an Israeli national with no medical training, the clinic was used as a front... 

Feeling the heat: The lawyer of a woman who accused Mr Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s wants the National Restaurant Association to release her from a confidentiality agreement so she can speak out Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is accusing rival Rick Perry’s operation of being behind stories about sexual harassment allegations against Cain in the 1990s. Cain’s campaign... 

Four suspects involved in a suspected satanic ritual, in which two girls were badly burnt, are led away by police officers after they appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court. Kirsty Theologo An 18-year-old South African woman was in a coma Monday after being doused in petrol and burned alive by friends in a Johannesburg park, in what police suspect was a satanic ritual. According to the... 

Bryan and Tonya Ricks were sentenced to 25 years in prison for child abuse resulting in serious bodily harm and failure to provide medical attention A couple have been sentenced to 25 years in prison for child abuse resulting in serious bodily harm and failure to provide medical attention. Tonya and Bryan Ricks, from Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty to starving their teenage son until he weighed just... 

Fatal: The truck that killed her five-year-old Xiong Maoke After the tragedy of Yue Yue, the Chinese trucker who hit a boy… then ran over him again to be sure he’d died ‘because it was cheaper than paying the hospital bills’. A lorry driver ran over a five-year-old boy – and then reversed over him to make sure he was dead in an apparent attempt to avoid footing hospital bills... 

On October 23, Switzerland elected the lower chamber of the parliament – the National Council. The favorite of the election was considered the ultra-right People’s Party. It stands for the drastic restriction of immigration and is against joining the EU. Its program is best characterized by the pre-election poster: three white sheep standing on the Swiss flag are kicking a black one. The... 

Yue Yue was left with horrific brain injuries following the accident and she never recovered. Two-year-old Yueyue, who was run over by two vans in southern China and ignored by several passersby, has died. A severely injured Chinese toddler has died one week after she was run over by two vans. The plight of the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yueyue, was ignored by passersby only to grab the attention... 

Libya, Misrata: Libyans take pictures with their mobile phones of the body of strongman Moamer Kadhafi in Misrata on October 20, 2011. Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril has confirmed that Colonel Gaddafi has been killed. The fugitive leader died of wounds sustained in his capture near Sirte. Meanwhile, officials from the National Transitional Council (NTC) have stated that no order was given to... 

President Barack Obama just guaranteed himself a place in the record books. Under his watch, the United States deported more immigrants than ever before last year. For the fiscal year ending September 2011, the Obama administration sent nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants out of the United States, a statistic more than triple the figure for the year 2000. In total, 396,906 non-citizens were evicted... 

Unaware: Video footage shows the little girl crossing the road at Guangfo Hardware Market, without spotting the van approaching Video footage of a two-year-old girl being run over by a van and ignored by passers-by in China has sparked outrage after being posted online. The graphic surveillance video of the incident in Foshan city, Guandong province, shows the girl run over by a van, which then drives... 

In addition to the so-called “Qatari island”, the new Belarus’ friends from the East would be given Kastrychnitskae and Petrykauskae potassium salts deposit, an iron ore deposit, land and much more. Charter97.org website has got at its disposal a protocol of Lukashenka’s instructions following his visit to Qatar on August 15-16. The document is intended for the “Official Use Only”. Thus,...