50-year-old South African man thought to be dead woke up in a chilly morgue on Sunday and shouted to be let out, scaring off two attendants who thought he was a ghost

50-year-old South African man thought to be dead woke up in a chilly morgue on Sunday and shouted to be let out, scaring off two attendants who thought he was a ghost, local media reported. "His family thought he had died," health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo told the Sapa news agency."The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue on Sunday at 5:00 pm and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place."This caused two mortuary attendants on duty to flee the building in the small town of Libode in the...

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Ongoing investigations by London’s Metropolitan Police have revealed at least 3,700 cases of phone hacking by journalists at the 168-year-old tabloid News of the World newspaper.

Ongoing investigations by London’s Metropolitan Police have revealed at least 3,700 cases of phone hacking by journalists at the 168-year-old tabloid News of the World newspaper. To try to dampen down public outrage, Murdoch – nicknamed “The Dirty Digger” in Britain - closed the newspaper down on July 10, and flew to London to issue an apology in front of a parliamentary committee. Yet, for years, police and politicians appeared to turn a blind eye to the practice of phone-hacking, partly out of...

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The pie-thrower who attacked Rupert Murdoch is a renowned activist who is one of the founding members of a left-wing protest group.

Comedian Jonnie Marbles – real name Jonathan May-Bowles – has been involved in protests in the past, it has been claimed.Moments before he carried out the attack he wrote on Twitter: ‘It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat’.Splat: Rupert Murdoch is attacked with a foam pie during the select committee hearing. The man responsible has been named on Twitter as Jonnie Marbles, 26The 26-year-old, from Croydon, south London, had been tweeting live updates from inside...

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Police must explain why they arrested and interviewed former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks for more than nine hours yesterday without confronting her with any allegations

Police must explain why they arrested and interviewed former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks for more than nine hours yesterday without confronting her with any allegations, her lawyer said.The arrest caused Brooks, 43, “enormous reputational damage,’’ her solicitor Stephen Parkinson said today. She will still attend a U.K. parliamentary committee hearing on phone hacking at the News Corp. tabloid, he said.“In time they will have to give their account of their actions, in particular their...

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Bailed suspects are responsible for a massive crimewave, committing one offence every four minutes.

Last year a shocking 142,537 crimes were carried out by suspects already on bail for a separate offence, official figures reveal.Despite the fact that the overall number of crimes has been falling over the past two years, the proportion committed by people already on bail has risen to almost 11 per cent, according to the Ministry of Justice figures.This means that one in every nine crimes detected by police is committed by offenders who have already been caught and released for other crimes.The...

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David Cameron cuts Africa trip short over phone-hacking crisis

David Cameron begins a two-day visit to Africa which has been curtailed to allow the prime minister to fly home early to finalise the terms and membership of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into the media.In his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as prime minister, Cameron will fly into South Africa with a message that an African free trade area could increase GDP across the continent by more than it currently receives in aid.He will praise his generation for marching against African debt and for holding concerts to raise funds for aid to the continent.But in article in the South African Business...

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Sir Paul Stephenson's resignation points the finger

Sir Paul's long resignation statement protested his innocence in all respects. But one crucial passage effectively pointed the finger at Downing Street, drawing an comparison between Mr Cameron's hiring of Andy Coulson and his own recruitment of his deputy. The point was implicit, but widely understood: "I'll take responsibility: what about you?" And thus a crisis which, for a long time, was perceived as a relatively contained issue of journalistic ethics, started lapping at the door of the prime...

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Metropolitan Police denied a journalist arrested over the hacking scandal had arranged a stay at a luxury health resort for Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson

News International has made a fresh apology in Sunday's national newspapers, placing adverts declaring there should be "no place to hide" from the police investigation into phone hacking.It comes after The Metropolitan Police denied that a journalist arrested over the scandal had arranged a stay at a luxury health resort for its Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson.And it follows comments from Foreign Secretary William Hague that he was not embarrassed "in any way" by the Government's relationship with News International executives.The publisher's advert, which features in several newspapers, is headed:...

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Art hoard found after police raid suspect who walked off with Picasso

former sommelier who was due last night be charged with stealing a Picasso drawing from a San Francisco art gallery 10 days ago now has an even wider canvas of legal problems after East Coast police raided his apartment in Hoboken, New Jersey, only to find 11 more allegedly stolen pieces.Police on both sides of the country now believe that Mark Lugo, 30, who used to pour wine for patrons in posh Manhattan restaurants, was fresh from a weeks-long art-theft spree in New York before leaving for San Francisco at the start of the month to pursue his new-found criminal career.Mr Lugo, who is said to...

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NYC Boy Possibly Tied Up Before Being Killed,

Investigators believe an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who was abducted and dismembered may have been tied up and tried to fight off his alleged captor before he was killed, police officials said Thursday.At a news conference, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the man charged in the killing, Levi Aron, had scratches on his arms and wrists — a sign "there was some kind of struggle." There also were marks on the victim's remains that could have been caused by restraints, the commissioner added.A preliminary medical examination indicates Leiby Kletzky was "smothered or suffocated," Kelly said.Kelly...

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Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive editor, has become the ninth person to be arrested over alleged phone hacking and payments to police officers by the paper.

Detectives from Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan police investigation into mobile interceptions by News International, are understood to have raided an address in west London on Thursday.Wallis was taken for questioning at a local police station on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.He is the ninth arrest Scotland Yard has made since the fresh investigation into phone hacking was launched in January.A Scotland Yard statement confirmed the arrest was carried out at 6.30am. "The man is currently in custody at a west London police station," the...

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The broker, the bank and the £3m con

Broker who stole homeowners’ identities in an attempt to defraud banks out of £3 million has been jailed for five years.Financial advisor Feruza Mettrick, 33, plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud lending institutions of more than £500,000 during a hearing at Leeds Crown Court.Mettrick’s double con involved using fake documents and utility bills so that she could rent properties and apply for loans from financial institutions.She used her extensive knowledge of mortgage applications in order to act as if she was the real owner of the properties she targeted.Helped by two men, she attempted to...

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Ex-EastEnders star Billy Murray will not face trial over assault allegations.

The 69-year-old actor was arrested in April, accused of beating his wife Elaine and daughter Lizzie "during a boozy late-night family row" at their Essex penthouse. However, The Mirror reports that the Crown Prosecution Service has said that no further action will be taken.A spokesman confirmed: "We can confirm that the case has been discontinued and no further action will be taken."Murray, who also appears in advertisements for Injury Lawyers 4 U, had apparently put his career on hold following...

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Iconic Mexican bar is oasis in crime central

Al Capone came across the border to Mexico during Prohibition for a tipple here as he stocked up on booze. Stars like Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and a young Ronald Reagan have also sat at the bar for a drink.The Kentucky Club & Grill in Ciudad Juarez, a stone's throw from the Santa Fe bridge to the United States, remains an oasis of calm in a city considered the most dangerous on the planet outside established war zones.The bar has survived the crossfire of unprecedented levels of violence involving Mexican drug cartels that killed 3,100 people in 2010 alone and created a warlike atmosphere...

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Wife and baby murderer Neil Entwistle appeals against his convictions in US court

BRITISH man serving life in the US for shooting dead his wife and baby daughter is seeking a retrial.Neil Entwistle, 32, claims evidence taken from his home by police was seized illegally and the jury may have been biased due to intense media coverage.He was jailed in 2008 for the murders of American Rachel, 27, and nine-month-old Lillian Rose in 2006 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.In his appeal at the state’s Supreme Judicial Court, his lawyer Stephen Maidman argued: “Two warrantless entries violated the federal and state constitutions.”But prosecutors said police were justified in entering the...

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