Fox Latin America is being forced to apologize after Rupert Murdoch’s Spanish-language outlet added a questionable poll to its Facebook page as part of a failed promotion. In an outlandish effort to promote a Christmas special this year on the National Geographic Channel, a Fox Latin America staffer asked fans on the group’s Facebook page, “Who [...]
An FBI agent who tried to rescue a swimmer in distress has drowned at a beach in northeast Puerto Rico, authorities said Friday. Daniel Knapp, a 43-year-old agent who was based in San Juan, drowned on Thursday at Hidden Beach in the coastal city of Fajardo, the FBI said in a statement. Friends of the swimmer had asked Knapp for [...]
Mexico says it has been notified of a U.S. court ruling to extradite anAmerican reality show producer charged with murdering his wife during a 2010 Mexican vacation, but says the date for the hand-over is still pending. Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office said Friday an agreement has been reached on the extradition of Bruce Beresford-Redman, but “the date for [...]
A bomb has exploded at a police station in southern Colombia, and two people are reported killed. The blast occurred Friday night at the police station in the town of Orito. Town official Rosa Ortega says there were reports that two people were killed, including the wife of apolice captain and a boy. She says the number of dead and injured [...]
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next week, the State Department announced in a statement on Friday. During her visit in the Gulf region from next Tuesday to Thursday, Sherman will “consult with senior Saudi and Emirati officials on a [...]
A total of 19 apparent arsons which damaged cars parked in West Hollywood and Hollywood overnight Friday had put Los Angeles city police on tactical alert, with authorities calling for members of public to come forward with information leading to the arrest of the suspect or his/her accomplices. All the fires, four in West Hollywood [...]
After buying up all of the world’s available resources, China is looking for a new array of assets to swipe under their rug. Now the Far East has set its aims on the Internet and is looking to begin with buying what’s left of Web giants Yahoo! Alibaba Group, the Hangzhou-based computer company, has retained [...]
A shooting incident happened in central Finland on Friday, killing at least one person, Finnish media reported. According to police, at least one person was shot dead in the incident in Kuohu area, some 17 km outside of Jyvaskyla, and a search is under way for a possible second victim. The emergency response centre of [...]
Britain will not reduce the London Games to an “austerity Olympics”, but instead try to use the event to kick-start the flagging economy in 2012, the minister responsible said Saturday. Jeremy Hunt, the Olympics secretary, told The Daily Telegraph that hosting the Games during the global economic crisis should be seen as “an incredible stroke of luck” that could help [...]
Mirko Tremaglia, a right-wing politician who won a decades-long battle for the right of Italian emigres to vote in Italian elections, died on Friday. He was 85. Italian news agencies and Sky TG24 TV said Tremaglia died at home in Bergamo, northern Italy, after a long illness. Tremaglia was a co-founder of the Italian Social Movement, a neo-fascist party [...]
