Crime

Hong Kong actress in sex photos scandal breaks her silence

Hong Kong actress in sex photos scandal breaks her silenceHong Kong - An Hong Kong actress pictured in racy photographs circulated on the internet has broken her silence to lambast Edison Chen, the star at the centre of the scandal, news reports said Saturday.

Cecilia Cheung appeared in a television interview broadcast Friday by Hong Kong-based private television channel iCable, criticising Chen whom she accused of lying and saying one thing to gain public sympathy while doing another.

Indonesian maid accused of violently attacking Malaysian boss

Kuala Lumpur  - A Malaysian woman suffered a fractured skull and ribs, and had to have nearly 100 stitches, claiming she was attacked by her Indonesian maid, news reports said Saturday.

Phang Kian Huang, 42, claimed that her maid had entered her room early Thursday while she was asleep and began attacking her with a wooden stool.

"She left and came back with a knife and started slashing. I pretended to lose consciousness," Phang was quoted as saying by the Star daily.

Phang, whose left ear was almost severed in the attack, alleged that the maid then returned a third time and threw a stone mortar at her, fracturing her skull and several ribs.

Big step

The Mumbai police completed a formidable task on Wednesday, three months to the date of the November terror attacks, when it filed a mammoth charge-sheet on the incident. Over 11,000 pages, 2000 witnesses, 38 accused, one terrorist caught alive and new information about calls made by the terrorists to their handlers are part of this enormous effort. Those in custody are Ajmal Amir 'Kasab', the lone terrorist who was captured alive as well as the two Indians accused of providing local assistance, Faheem and Sabauddin Ansari. The rest are mainly LeT operatives in Pakistan.

Drunken Estonians sentenced for desecrating "wrong" monument

Tallinn  - Three young Estonian men were handed suspended prison sentences in the south-eastern Estonian town of Voru on Thursday after they admitted desecrating what they took to be a Communist monument in the local cemetery in December 2008.

The three self-appointed patriots took offence at the presence of the monument and daubed it in the blue, white and black colours of the Estonian flag.

There was just one problem - the monument, called the Common Grave of Terror Victims, was actually dedicated to the victims of fascism.

Police surrender to Pillays assault

No bandobast could stop the Rajesh Pillay Academy (RPA) and Vikram Pillay Academy (VPA) as they sent the police force out of the reckoning in the, Late Professor Shardul B Gaikwad Invitational Hockey Tournament at the Ammunition Factory ground here on Friday

RPA and VPA scripted an impressive wins in their high energy encounters against Railway Police and Pune City Police respectively.

Rs3.82 lakh rains on Kolkata street

It rained money from the 15th floor office of an engineering company on Jawaharlal Nehru Road on Wednesday evening. Bundles of Rs500, 100 and 50, adding up to Rs3.82 lakh, say the Kolkata police. Employees of an engineering company thought better of throwing away the unaccounted money than being confronted by income tax (I-T) men during a raid.

Pedestrians were taken by surprise seeing all that money rain on them. But even before the possibly greedy ones could think of touching it, a police team reached the spot and collected the money.

Kolkata police deputy commissioner (detective department) Javed Shamim, confirmed that his sleuths collected Rs 3.82 lakh from the streets and handed them over to the I-T department.

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