Natascha Kampusch was help captive by Wolfgang Priklopil for eight and a half years. She now owns the house she was help hostage at as part of the compensation.
The young Austrian was kidnapped at the age of 10 on 2 March 1998 as she made her way to school. Priklopil kept her locked away for [...]
The catwalk in Milan was showcasing a collection of three beautiful designer gowns but the designers were not from the fashion world. Milan’s San Vittore prison on Wednesday was the scene of the fashion show.
Designers like Prada and Alberta Ferretti had their collections go down the same catwalk as the prisoners who were launching their [...]
The situation in China could be getting worse. Troops have been rushed in to plug dangerous cracks in a dam close to Dujiangyan in Sichuan province.
“It (the dam) is only five kilometres away, we are downstream of it,” Speaking from Dujiangyan, Sky’s China correspondent Peter Sharp said.
“We understand that some of the People’s Liberation Army [...]
Mexico’s women who live in homes with domestic violence have little help from those ordered by the law to protect them. Much of the law enforcement of the nation still hides behind the macho mentality that allows violence to be hidden away.
Last year Mexico passed a law requiring women to be protected in cases of [...]
The earthquake disaster in China may well be remembered by the massive amount of young students lost when their schools tumbled down trapping them into the earth.
Juyuan Middle School has beneath its former walls at least 900 students. At this time 60 bodies have been pulled from the rumble. The school comprised of eighth an [...]
The news coming in from China after a massive afternoon earthquake is not good: Already there are reports of more than 9,000 dead, students buried under the rubble of a school and a toxic chemical leak that the nation is having to deal with.
The magnitude 7.9 earthquake shook much of China early this afternoon about [...]
Panamanian investigators are on the hunt for 6,000 patients who received medicine that was contaminated with a chemical found in antifreeze and brake fluid. The medicine was handed to the government two years ago when 116 people died.
The medicines handed to the government were cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion and rash ointment made at [...]
As the victims of Myanmar’s tragic cyclone wait for help, the U.N. has halted aid. Over 38 tons of biscuits that had been sent into the country were seized by Myanmar’s junta. Those biscuits could be providing relief to as many as 95,000 people.
“All of the food aid and equipment that we managed to get [...]
The BBC is the latest to face an attack in Iraq. The BBC’s bureau in Baghdad was hit Friday with a rocket. The details of the hit are very minimal with no one claiming responsibility for the attack.
The rocket hit the building that houses the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Baghdad bureau. There is damage to the [...]
In the face of sorrow from Cyclone Nargis comes new life. Than Win lost seven of her 10 children in the Cyclone. On Wednesday she gave birth to her eleventh child in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta where over 10,000 are now dead. The 41-year-old mother gave birth to Chit Oo Mg which translated means “First Love” [...]
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