Teenager burnt to death for resisting rape

October 10th, 2009 NAIROBI/ABUJA - Some 70 people were killed, many of them burnt to death, in a multiple-vehicle inferno in Nigeria caused after a fuel tanker crashed, the online edition of This Day newspaper reported Saturday. The accident in Anambra state ultimately involved nine vehicles, including the fuel tanker, six commuter buses, and passenger car and a van, the report said.

October 8th, 2009 BOGOTA - A teenager choked to death after attaching the leash of his pet pit bull to his neck while roughhousing with the dog, Colombian media reported. Deiner Lopez Madera, 14, was found unconscious on the floor in his home with the dog at his side.

October 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 25-year-old man was arrested for kidnapping and molesting a 15-year-old girl while his younger brother was arrested for raping her when she refused to marry him, police said Saturday. Rinku, who is married, was insisting the victim get married to his brother Deepak, police said.

October 1st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A teenager was arrested here for allegedly sodmising an eight-year-old boy, police said Thursday. According to police, the accused, who is 16 years old and a resident of Sector 56 here, took the kid to the terrace of his house Wednesday night and sodomised him.

September 22nd, 2009 MUMBAI - A 24-year-old housewife was allegedly raped and burnt to death by four men in her home here. The four youths have been arrested, police said Tuesday.

September 17th, 2009 Ghaziabad: - Bodies of an un-identified couple were recovered by police from Nithora forest area in Loni Wednesday late night. The police said, the victims were in age-group of 25-30 years and possibly murdered after strangulation.

September 12th, 2009 Teen accused of threatening teacher to get 'A++'PATERSON, N.J. — Authorities say a New Jersey teenager threatened to rape and kill his teacher if she did not give his entire class an "A++" for the last school year.

September 4th, 2009 Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences for Iraqi deathsPADUCAH, Ky. — A former soldier has received five consecutive life sentences for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.

September 4th, 2009 Ex-soldier to be sentenced in Ky. for Iraqi deathsPADUCAH, Ky.

August 4th, 2009 NANNING - A teenager in a Chinese camp meant to help people fight Internet addiction was beaten to death by camp workers. Public security authorities in south China's Guangxi Zhuang said they have detained four people in Nanning City in association with the death of the teenager.

June 29th, 2009 Mass man held in girl's kidnapping, attempted rapeHANOVER, Mass. — Prosecutors say a Massachusetts man lured a 6-year-old girl to an apartment, restrained her and injected her with an unknown substance intending to rape her, but instead freed her and slashed his own wrist.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two people, including a three-year-old girl, were burnt to death in a fire that gutted at least 150 shanties in east Delhi Monday, an official said. The victims were identified as Muskan and 45-year-old labourer Shehzad.

June 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man, who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl and then murdered her, was lynched by an angry mob in an Uttar Pradesh village, police said Monday. "Chandra Pal was beaten to death by a group of villagers after they caught him burning the victim's body in Kubernagri village in Kanshiram Nagar district," Superintendent of Police Upendra Agarwal told reporters.

June 1st, 2009 Court won't hear appeal from man convicted of rapeWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won't hear the latest appeal from a man convicted in the rape and killing of a 15-year-old Kansas City girl. The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Michael A.

March 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A 70-year-old labourer was burnt to death in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said Saturday. Nahar Singh was set on fire Friday night while he was alone in his house in Kandhla village of Muzaffarnagar, 350 km from here.