Murdered Iranian woman’s killer identified

October 12th, 2009 LONDON - British companies have been banned from doing business with two Iranian firms linked to Tehran's nuclear programme, Exchequer Secretary Sarah McCarthy-Fry announced late Monday. The two Iranian firms being targeted are Bank Mellat and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.

October 8th, 2009 Correction: Iranian nuclear scientist storyTEHRAN, Iran — In an Oct. 7 story about the disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat identified an Iranian who disappeared in Georgia as a second nuclear scientist.

August 27th, 2009 BRISBANE - Accused killer Max Sica wanted a threesome with his then Indian Australian girlfriend Neelma Singh and another member of her family, the dead girl's older sister has told a Brisbane Magistrates Court. Archana Pathik also told the court how Sica had hacked into her email account to send a sex profile to people she knew, including her parents-in-law.

August 21st, 2009 BRISBANE - A Brisbane magistrate's court was told today that the father of an Indian Australian woman, who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend in 2003, had an affair with his niece. According to the Courier Mail, Vijay Singh had an affair with his niece and videotaped her and other women naked in his office, the court was told.

August 20th, 2009 CHILPANCINGO - The speaker of the legislature in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero was gunned down Thursday by some unidentified gunmen outside his house, officials said. Armando Chavarria Barrera, a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, served as the state's interior minister until May 6, 2008, when he resigned in the wake of the murders of 17 ranchers.

August 20th, 2009 BRISBANE - The father of three siblings found murdered in their home was a violent man who repeatedly bashed his wife and daughters, a court has been told. Giving evidence in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today, Shirley Singh said her husband Vijay was a quick-tempered man who used his fists when he was angry.

August 19th, 2009 BRISBANE - The mother of murdered Indian Australian woman Neelma Singh today told a Brisbane magistrate's court that a sapphire given to her by her boyfriend Max Sica, and a diary were missing from the home where her body was found in 2003. The Courier Mail quoted Neelma's mother Shirley Singh as telling the Brisbane Magistrates Court that she noticed items of Neelma's jewellery, a diary and photos of her with a previous boyfriend were missing when she was escorted through the house by police several days after the bodies of her children were found in April 2003.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Police officials in Jilin have arrested a killer hiding in the mountains for 19 days, when he came out to have his favourite food. The man had killed his girlfriend and her lover.

July 4th, 2009 British embassy employee in Iran chargedTEHRAN — The lawyer for a detained Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran says his client has been charged with "acting against national security." Lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshi says his client is being held in Evin prison and will in all likelihood stand trial soon. The lawyer on Saturday identified his client as Hossein Rassam, the embassy's chief political analyst, and said he had not yet been able to meet with him or see the text of the indictment.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - A woman's body lay for five years in her Edinburgh apartment before it was discovered after neighbours notified authorities about a water leak, media reports said Saturday. Police had to plough through mounds of unopened mail as they entered the apartment in the Scottish capital before making the grisly discovery.

June 23rd, 2009 Britain expels 2 Iranian diplomatsLONDON — Britain's government says it has expelled two Iranian diplomats in retaliation for Tehran's decision to order out two staff members from the British Embassy in Tehran. The Foreign Office said Tuesday that Tehran's decision was baseless and unjustifiable.

June 22nd, 2009 VANCOUVER - In a deadly shootout at an Indian home in Surrey near here Sunday, a man and a boy were killed and a woman critically injured. Police have not identified the victims.

June 17th, 2009 US official denies charge of interference in IranWASHINGTON — The State Department is disputing an allegation by the Iranian government that the United States is meddling excessively in its internal affairs. State Department spokesman P.J.

May 26th, 2009 LONDON - The mother of murdered British teen Scarlett Keeling has revealed that authorities in Goa have finally released her girl's remaining bodily organs. They have been sent to a coroner in the UK.

May 1st, 2009 LONDON - 'Jack the Ripper'-considered one of London's most notorious criminal-was actually a fictional character created by journalists to link and sensationalise a series of unrelated murders for boosting the sales of newspapers, reveals a new book. Dr Andrew Cook, who is a historian researching on 'Jack the Ripper' for the past five years, has argued that the five murders believed to be committed by him in the East End in 1888 were actually the work of several different men.