Bali bombing mastermind killed in police raid

August 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Indonesian police sources have said that one of two men killed in a central Java shoot-out with police is Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed nine people and wounded 53.

August 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Fingerprint analysis has confirmed that one of two men reported killed in a central Java shoot-out with police was not Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels that killed nine people and wounded 53.

May 13th, 2009 Armenian teenager killed after online clash YEREVAN, Armenia — Police say an Armenian teenager was killed after a dispute on a popular social networking Web site. Interior Ministry spokesman Sayat Shirinian said Wednesday that 17-year-old Tigran Tadevosian died in a hospital shortly after being assaulted by four teenagers on April 26.

March 30th, 2009 Six people, including three children, were killed in a family shooting at an upscale housing development in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, police said Monday. The suspected gunman was believed to be among the dead inside the modern home, said Santa Clara police Lieutenant Phil Cooke.'We do believe this appears to be a family-on-family murder-suicide,' Cooke said in a televised news conference.

January 12th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Police Tuesday conducted a raid on the Hyderabad office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the former auditor of Satyam Computer Services, as part of the probe into the Rs.70 billion fraud by the IT bellwether. Crime Investigation Department (CID) officials said a team raided the PwC office in the upmarket Jubilee Hills and seized documents and other records.

February 9th, 2009 LONDON - British police Tuesday warned women against communicating with a Facebook user suspected to be a killer. Police said women should not meet up with Facebook user George Appleton after the badly burnt corpse of 36-year-old Clare Wood was discovered last week in the bedroom of her home in Salford, Greater Manchester.

December 28th, 2008 JAKARTA - At least 10 people were killed, 17 rescued and an unspecified number reported missing after a small boat capsized on the sea off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday morning, officials said. The accident took place at about 10 a.m.

January 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, are questioning a 20-year old man 'strongly suspected' to be involved in the murder of a software engineer from Hyderabad, working with the scam-hit Satyam Computers. Police declined to release the name and other details of the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Akshay Vishal, who was shot dead Tuesday in the seventh case of young students and professionals from Andhra Pradesh being killed in the US in last 14 months.

January 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Muthyala Purushottam, a 27-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, was found dead in his flat in Indianapolis in the US, family sources said Thursday. This is the second incident of the death of a techie from the Indian state in the US this month.

July 23rd, 2009 SoCal man held in estranged wife's machete deathFONTANA, Calif. — A man is under arrest for allegedly hacking his estranged wife to death with a machete outside the Fontana beauty shop where she worked.

January 8th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Disgraced former founder-chairman of Satyam Computers B. Ramalinga Raju surrendered before the Andhra Pradesh police chief Friday night.

January 20th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The three-day All India Police Science Congress, which ended here Wednesday, has favoured outsourcing non-core tasks to private agencies and separating law and order from investigations in the metros. 'Now the police have to serve the summons issued by courts to the accused.

January 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The body of Akshay Vishal, an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services who was murdered in a robbery attempt in the US, is expected to be flown to India Saturday. A consul from the Indian consulate in Houston has reached Little Rock, Arkansas, where the incident took place, to coordinate with the local authorities and complete the necessary paper work.

January 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Hyderabad police are not likely to take any action on their own against B. Ramalinga Raju, who Wednesday admitted to a Rs.40 billion fraud while resigning as chairman of IT major Satyam Computer Service Limited.

January 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - A senior leader of the Tamil Tigers has been seriously injured in an attack by advancing government troops, a pro-rebel website said Thursday. 'A senior leader and special member of the LTTE K.V.