May 18, 2006
Two brothers gain the trust of a young married couple seeking a new home by posing as property salesmen. But, in reality, they are ruthless conmen, whose greed shall lead to murder - and ultimately to their own downfall.
Every movement, gurgle and chuckle made by a baby in the first three years of its life is being recorded by a scientist in the US.
May 16, 2006
A former gay lover and prison confidant of a famous criminal alleged the gangster revealed his first wife was murdered by his twin brother. An inquest at the time concluded his wife had committed suicide, and no one knew about this twin brother then.
Two identical twins were the most notorious criminals of the 1960s, heading an organised underworld empire of protection rackets, violence and murder. They were not well known to the public until the press revealed a homosexual relationship between a prominent peer and a leading thug in the London underworld, obviously one of the twins.
The power of gangsters has been heightened in recent years by the availability of mobile phones, smuggled through prison security, enabling members to run criminal activities from the safety of their cells.
For 60 years, a German archive documenting Nazi war crimes helped survivors of the Holocaust trace missing relatives but the archive was closed to the public. There are 17 million names in it. The Nazis recorded everything; from the number of lice on a prisoner's head to the exact moment of execution. There is very personal information, too: names of collaborators, homosexuals and prostitutes. Now, 60 years after the end of the war, many feel they should be opened.
May 15, 2006
A Pan Am jumbo jet with 258 passengers on board crashes- hundreds are feared dead.
A woman is murdered with a kitchen knife she carried while investigating a noise outside her home. She bled to death after being stabbed in the leg. The weapon has not been found.
A top Chinese academic is fired after it emerges he faked research into computer chips that aimed at ending the nation's reliance on foreign suppliers.
Activity on a volcano intensifies, with continuous clouds of ash, gas and rock fragments spewing from its crater. Thousands of people have been moved from the volcano's upper slopes, but a small number are refusing to leave.
Survivors found 10 weeks after plane crash.
May 12, 2006
Two dozen women claim they were raped or sexually abused by the police following a violent protest in a town outside the capital.
A Roman Catholic priest in the US has been found guilty of the murder of a nun 26 years ago in what prosecutors said was a ritualistic killing.
An alligator killed a woman whose dismembered body was found floating in a canal in Florida
A rapist declares that his victim indicated that she wanted sex by the way she sat while wearing a knee-length skirt, and that it was his duty as a man to accommodate her.
May 09, 2006
A German man who killed and ate an apparently willing victim is sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of murder.
May 08, 2006
A grandson of German-Russian immigrants and now governor of Montana, signed posthumous pardons for 78 men and women convicted in 1918 and 1919 for critizicing the US government.
Some children are seduced into taking part in medical experiments with promises of Christmas parties. The children are fed oatmeal laced with slightly radioactive milk as part of a nutrition study for Quaker Oats.
In August 1941, Mina boyce, a 21-year-old widow and an alcoholic, handed her baby over to social workers. Over the next seven years, the child lived in seven foster homes and then was locked in an institution for people with mental retardation. There he would stay until the staff finally agreed that he was safe to leave, 11 years later.
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