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A cleaner heard the newborn crying inside a sanitary bin before police traced two people through airport surveillance footage. GEORGE TOWN, Malaysia — A newborn boy was found alive inside a sanitary waste bin at Penang International Airport after a cleaner heard him crying, prompting a police investigation that led to the detention of a Malaysian woman and a Myanmar man. The baby was discovered Aug. 31 in a toilet at the airport in Bayan …
A Cairo court imposed capital sentences on Khalifa and 11 co-defendants after convicting them of organized drug manufacturing and trafficking offenses. CAIRO — Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other defendants were sentenced to death by hanging Saturday after a Cairo criminal court convicted them in a large synthetic-drug manufacturing and trafficking case that involved 28 defendants, according to Egyptian state-linked media and international news reports. The Sept. 5 ruling followed months of court …
The bus was returning from a privately organized student outing when it left a mountain road and fell about 100 feet. SÃO FILIPE, Cape Verde — At least 25 people, many of them children and teenagers, died after a bus carrying students left a mountain road and plunged about 30 meters, or 100 feet, into a ravine on Cape Verde’s Fogo Island, authorities and local news reports said Sunday. The crash happened Saturday on the …
The overnight blaze swept through a crowded reception hall in Lingwala, where officials said difficult evacuation conditions contributed to panic. KINSHASA, Congo — At least 22 people were reported dead after a fire erupted during a wedding celebration in Congo’s capital, according to an initial casualty count from the mayor of Lingwala, though later official statements gave a lower figure as authorities worked Saturday to reconcile the toll. The fire broke out during the night …
Health authorities are investigating after the girl developed a life-threatening illness following a visit to a petting farm in Victoria. MELBOURNE, Australia — A 3-year-old girl has died after spending six weeks in intensive care with a rare, life-threatening complication of a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infection, with her family saying she may have contracted the bacteria while visiting a petting farm in Victoria. The girl, whose family has asked that she not be publicly …
Edda Elisa Pilz says she was stopped at Berlin Brandenburg Airport until she zipped a jacket over her workout clothes. BERLIN — German fitness influencer Edda Elisa Pilz says she was temporarily stopped from boarding a Lufthansa flight at Berlin Brandenburg Airport after a gate agent objected to her sportswear and required her to cover up before she could enter the aircraft. Pilz said the dispute unfolded during hot weather in June as she approached …
Her 9-year-old daughter died in the October 2025 incident in Islip, while a boy and another girl survived. OXFORD, England — An Oxfordshire coroner has ruled that a 49-year-old mother died by suicide after an inquest heard she injected herself and her three children with insulin at their home in Islip, where her 9-year-old daughter died and two other children survived. The ruling came at an inquest held Sept. 1 at Oxford Coroner’s Court into …
A Taiwan court sentenced the man to five months after finding that secretly recording his wife violated her sexual privacy rights. TAOYUAN, Taiwan — A Taiwanese man who used a camera-equipped robot vacuum to record evidence of his wife’s affair won damages in a civil case but was later sentenced to five months in prison for making the intimate recording without her consent, according to court reporting in Taiwan. The unusual case centered on competing …
Two men were arrested after the killings at an Atizapán de Zaragoza apartment, while the couple’s 6-year-old son survived unharmed. ATIZAPÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa, a 38-year-old keyboardist and co-founder of the Mexican band Camilo Séptimo, was killed along with his pregnant wife, their 3-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old woman who worked in their home, authorities said. State of Mexico prosecutors said the four victims were found late Sept. 1 inside …
Police are searching for one or more shooters after gunfire erupted as an overnight techno event ended at Aarau’s horse racing track. AARAU, Switzerland — A 22-year-old woman was killed and five other people were wounded early Sunday when gunfire erupted near a techno rave at a horse racing track in northern Switzerland, setting off a large police operation and an intensive search for the person or people responsible. The shooting was reported shortly after …