11 Apr

From Soviet Relic to Renationalization Target

If you thought the recent turmoil at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 was as bad as it can get for an international airport, then think again.
While London’s flagship gateway has been dealing with lost luggage, angry passengers and flight delays over the past few weeks, Moscow’s leading airport has for years fought a bitter struggle for [...]

11 Apr

From Soviet Relic to Renationalization Target

If you thought the recent turmoil at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 was as bad as it can get for an international airport, then think again.
While London’s flagship gateway has been dealing with lost luggage, angry passengers and flight delays over the past few weeks, Moscow’s leading airport has for years fought a bitter struggle for [...]

10 Apr

From Soviet Relic to Renationalization Target

If you thought the recent turmoil at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 was as bad as it can get for an international airport, then think again.
While London’s flagship gateway has been dealing with lost luggage, angry passengers and flight delays over the past few weeks, Moscow’s leading airport has for years fought a bitter struggle for [...]

07 Apr

Mother lashes out at incest couple

Incest couple had another child, court documents show
Deave’s second daughter traumatised, says mother
John Earnest Deaves and his daughter Jennifer Anne Deaves are at the centre of an incest scandal in South Australia over their seven-year relationship.
The pair have spoken publicly, asking for some respect and understanding.
But their relationship has been condemned by Ms Deaves mother [...]

07 Apr

Key witness at political fundraiser trial details drug binges

CHICAGO - The government’s star witness at political
fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko’s fraud trial gave an
embarrassing, detailed account Monday of how he gorged on powerful
drugs in his office, aboard chartered planes and in all-night
sessions with male companions in luxury hotels.
Attorney Stuart P. Levine, the political insider who claims he
and Rezko schemed to squeeze more than $7 [...]

07 Apr

Shannon’s mum arrested

Karen Matthews, 32, was detained yesterday in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
The girls disappearance sparked a major search before she was found after 24 days hidden in the base of a bed at a house less than two kilometres from her family home.
The mystery surrounding Shannons abduction has deepened after claims her mother was having an affair [...]

03 Apr

Armed Raid Opens Eldorado Investigation

Interior Ministry officers, armed with assault rifles, raided the Moscow head office of leading electronics retailer Eldorado on Wednesday morning after a criminal investigation was opened into alleged nonpayment of about $300 million in taxes.
Investigators from the Interior Ministry’s Central Federal District branch searched the company’s headquarters after about 20 heavily armed officers, including rapid [...]

03 Apr

Armed Raid Opens Eldorado Investigation

Interior Ministry officers, armed with assault rifles, raided the Moscow head office of leading electronics retailer Eldorado on Wednesday morning after a criminal investigation was opened into alleged nonpayment of about $300 million in taxes.
Investigators from the Interior Ministry’s Central Federal District branch searched the company’s headquarters after about 20 heavily armed officers, including rapid [...]

03 Apr

Mega Millions winner claims multimmillion-dollar prize

LANSING, Mich. - David Sneath has worked at a Ford Motor
Co. parts warehouse for 34 years, but it didn’t take him any time
at all to walk out once he discovered he’d won a $136 million Mega
Millions jackpot.
“I yelled to the boss, ‘I’m out of here,”‘ the Livonia man
said Thursday after coming to state Lottery Bureau [...]

26 Mar

Prosecutors say Saddam’s spy agency financed U.S. congressmen’s trip to Iraq

Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. legislators during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the [...]