Twelve-year-old Joseph Kasirye never made it to the village well after leaving his home in Kayugi in southern Uganda. As he walked to fetch water on Oct. 27 last year he was hit on the head with a hoe, allegedly by a man he knew — Umar Katerega, the local witch doctor. His head and genitals were then cut off and given to property tycoon Godfrey Kato Kajubi who, according to police, wanted to... 

On Wednesday Sweden took over the helmet for the European Union term presidency. Sweden will face a quite difficult term. Even preparations for the decision about Turkey to be taken at the end of the year are enough to be handled in a six-month term presidency. Sweden is a country that has already grasped the importance of Turkey’s integration with the EU and uttering it by any chance. No matter... 

The Italian government has done what any sane government would do to protect itself from invasion and passed a law declaring it a criminal offence to enter Italy without permission or to aid invaders in any way. In addition, the new law has instituted a policy of immediate deportation of the invaders themselves. The law, passed yesterday in the Italian senate after earlier ratification by the lower... 

Anarchists from Hamburg’s autonomous scene battled police for six hours late Saturday and early Sunday in the trendy Schanzenviertel neighbourhood after a street fair. Over 100 rioters were arrested and 27 police officers injured. Over 10,000 visitors visited the Schanzenfest street fair, but once it turned dark, over 1,000 young, masked anarchists came out to do battle, police said. The rioters... 

Although provincial police commissioner Mzwandile Petros often visits crime scenes, he was reluctant to attend the site where the body of three-year-old Viwe Mnembe was found at the weekend. Speaking at a police briefing yesterday, Petros, who took the opportunity to announce new appointees, said his reluctance to visit the bushes where the toddler’s body was found was fuelled by his incomprehension... 

Who ratted out First Lady Michelle Obama for getting VIP treatment while shopping in Paris last month with her daughters? That would be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The issue: Getting a store usually closed on Sundays to open for her. The cautious Mrs. Obama, who carries a limited, strategically applied issues portfolio, is now caught up–unwittingly–in a domestic debate in France... 

A mother accused of lying to get her son into a top state school has had charges against her dropped. Mrinal Patel, 41, who gave her mother’s address on her application, would have been the first parent in the country to be prosecuted for school admissions fraud. But Harrow Council in north-west London admitted yesterday it feared its use of the Fraud Act 2006 could be open to challenge because... 

Terrorists and criminals world-wide have created a group on Facebook where they openly placed Death Threats on Nick Griffin! These hateful people hope to raise 1.000.000 criminal haters and openly call for the assassination of Nick Griffin. Hal Turner was arrested in US for the alleged “death threat” made to a US Judge which in fact it was just a wish. Now how about arresting all these... 

German industrial giant Siemens will pay $100 million over 15 years into a fund to fight corruption after probes revealed fraud at its subsidiaries, the jewish World Bank said. Siemens has also agreed not to bid for business from the Washington-based jewish World Bank for two years as part of its punishment following the anti-corruption investigations. “The World Bank Group today announced a... 

A Durban nurse who was gang-raped for six hours, while her fiance watched helplessly, says she lives her life in fear of it happening again. And while she got “some closure” this week, when one of her rapists was sentenced to three life terms plus 27 years’ imprisonment, the 40-year-old woman says her life will never be the same. After the sentencing of Tandaso Peterson Nombele,... 

An eastern German town ventured to make a political statement by hosting a soccer match under a slogan of racial tolerance. But when the far-right, neo-Nazi NPD announced it was going to demonstrate, the opposing team, Energie Cottbus, backed out. The eastern German town of Storkow had planned to host a soccer match this Saturday to celebrate tolerance. But then the opposing team cancelled —... 

A 71-year-old woman accused of recruiting family members to marry foreigners seeking green cards plead guilty Wednesday to taking part in an immigration fraud conspiracy. Federal prosecutors said Maria Refugia Camarillo, of Fort Worth, Texas, faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she is sentenced in September. She also must provide a $35,000 lien on her home. Investigators said that... 

One of my new themes on this site is that the Israel lobby as we know it is over. Gaza and Netanyahu shattered it. Obama gave his speech in Cairo because he knew he would have political cover from American Jews to reach out to the Muslim world. Marty Peretz and Charles Krauthammer didn’t like the speech, but Jeffrey Goldberg and Roger Cohen (and Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod) did. That’s... 

Migration… Facebook users are reportedly white and wealthy while MySpace users are black, uneducated and obnoxious. A “white flight” to Facebook has turned MySpace into a black ghetto, according to a social analyst in the US. Danah Boyd said Facebook’s arrival sparked a migration from MySpace of white users, the educated and the wealthy, while non-whites had stuck together on... 

An emotionally charged case of he said, she said is brewing Wednesday. And at the center of the issue is New York City’s first Hasidic police officer. A woman from Brooklyn is angry because she says police didn’t want her sick dog in the subways. She is accused of making anti-Semitic remarks to the cop, and she says she didn’t do it. Chrissie Brodigan had one of those days Monday....