NEW YORK: Comedian Bill Cosby, who is serving a three and a half year jail sentence, on Tuesday appealed a Pennsylvania court´s verdict that found him guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago. “This filing is an important step in ensuring that Mr Cosby receives a ...
Read More »Billionaire Ambani risks jail over missed Ericsson payments
NEW DELHI: India’s top court said Indian industrialist and chairman of Reliance Communications (RCom) Anil Ambani wilfully did not pay 77.3 million U.S. dollars to Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson, thereby holding him guilty of contempt in a case, officials said. “RCom had no intention to abide with the undertakings. ...
Read More »Pakistan’s former PM Nawaz Sharif arrested to serve jail term
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested late Friday as he returned to eastern city of Lahore from London to serve a 10-year jail term on corruption charges, officials said. Sharif, accompanied by his daughter Maryam Nawaz, who was also sentenced to seven years in prison, landed in ...
Read More »Notorious thief flees French jail by helicopter
PARIS: A notorious career thief who was once France’s most-wanted man pulled off a daring jailbreak on Sunday, fleeing a prison in the Paris area by helicopter, officials said. Redoine Faid, 46, broke out of the prison in Reau in the city’s southeastern suburbs within minutes, helped by a number ...
Read More »Cafe owner faces jail for letting waitress serve coffee naked
BANGKOK: The owner of the scandalous coffee shop has faced obscenity charges for publishing suggestive videos and photos of the half-naked waitress, The Sun reported. The clip of the Pattaya-based model, now identified as Arisa Suwannawong, featured the woman wearing nothing but an apron as a gesture of goodwill to promote the Nina Coffee Shop in Chonburi’s Sattaship district. She ...
Read More »Glasgow: British Pakistani gets life in jail for murdering wife
A shopkeeper from Port Glasgow has been convicted of murdering his wife and handed a life sentence. Abdul Sattar killed spouse Mumtaz in Pakistan just over four years ago but her family have faced an agonising wait for justice. It has finally come to an end after Sattar – a ...
Read More »Helicopter carrying wedding party mistakenly lands in prison in Bangladesh
DHAKA: A private helicopter carrying a wedding party landed by mistake inside a high security prison on Thursday, sparking massive security concerns amid reports that terrorists were planning an attack on the jail to free the militant inmates. According to the officials the guards at Kashimpur Central Jail detained the ...
Read More »UK journalist faces Thai jail for carrying protective gear
LONDON: A British journalist faces jail time after he was arrested at Thailand’s main airport with a gas mask and plates for a bullet-proof vest, which police said breached a law that classifies the protective gear as war weapons. Anthony Cheng, who works for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, was detained ...
Read More »Teenager facing jail over global computer hacking business
MANCHESTER: A teenager is facing jail for setting up a global computer hacking business which caused chaos on the world wide web and cost millions of pounds. Adam Mudd was just 16 years old when he created his Titanium Stresser programme, which was used to carry out more than 1.7 ...
Read More »Indian illegally enters Pakistan to meet GF, lands in jail
New Delhi: Love and desperation drove Mumbai engineer Hamid Ansari to illegally cross over to Pakistan from Afghanistan in late 2012 leading to his arrest and subsequent imprisonment in the neighbouring country. Four years later, the desperation to hear a word from their son has prompted Hamid’s parents – Fauzia ...
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