Washington - Pennsylvania state police Saturday arrested an 11-year-old boy and charged him with two murders after he killed his father's girlfriend and her unborn child, a Pittsburgh newspaper reported.
Police said they believed the suspect aimed a shotgun at the back of the 26-year-old woman's head as she slept Friday morning, then caught the school bus along with her seven-year-old daughter and went to school.
Manila - A fugitive, wanted for allegedly raping his housemaid more than a year ago, was arrested in an eastern city while placing a bet in the Philippines biggest lottery jackpot ever, a police report said Saturday.
The report said Ariel Ayque, 52, was arrested late Friday while placing his bet in a lottery outlet in Naga City, 200 kilometres south-east of Manila.
Ayque was accused of raping his housemaid in November 2007 and a local judge issued a warrant for his arrest in March 2008, it said.
Hanoi - Vietnamese police have arrested a college student who confessed to slitting her wealthy ex-boyfriend's throat with a fruit knife on Valentine's Day, a police official said Friday.
Police said Vu Thi Kim Anh, 22, a fourth-year student at Hanoi Pedagogical University, confessed to murdering Nguyen Tien Chinh, 42, as the two sat in his parked Lexus sports utility vehicle.
"[Anh's] action was partially caused by the victim's misconduct," said Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Duc Chung, head of the Hanoi Investigative Police.
Beijing - Airport police in the south-western Chinese city of Chengdu overpowered a man who was armed with a starting pistol and had taken a woman hostage near a security counter, state media said on Friday.
The police and security officers seized the 23-year-old man after he fired two shots into the air and grabbed the woman at Chengdu's Shuangliu International Airport on Thursday morning, the official Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying.
The police quickly overpowered the man and freed the woman uninjured, the agency said.
Hong Kong - Two men were questioned Friday by police in Hong Kong in connection with a plot to rig big money races by shooting poison darts at horses.
The men were arrested Thursday evening after being seen acting suspiciously by security guards on a public jogging track that goes around the Happy Valley racecourse.
Washington - Pennsylvania state police Saturday arrested an 11-year-old boy and charged him with two murders after he killed his father's girlfriend and her unborn child, a Pittsburgh newspaper reported.
Manila - A fugitive, wanted for allegedly raping his housemaid more than a year ago, was arrested in an eastern city while placing a bet in the Philippines biggest lottery jackpot ever, a police report said Saturday.
Hanoi - Vietnamese police have arrested a college student who confessed to slitting her wealthy ex-boyfriend's throat with a fruit knife on Valentine's Day, a police official said Friday.
Beijing - Airport police in the south-western Chinese city of Chengdu overpowered a man who was armed with a starting pistol and had taken a woman hostage near a security counter, state media said on Friday.
Hong Kong - Two men were questioned Friday by police in Hong Kong in connection with a plot to rig big money races by shooting poison darts at horses.
