Trial of ‘Dr. Death’ Patel to be broadcast live to Bundaberg

October 13th, 2009 URUMQI - Six people have been sentenced to death for their part in the murderous riots in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjing Uygur autonomous region, that took the lives of 197 people on July 5. The six learned they face execution at the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese couple, who has been married for less than three months, has signed an agreement for a six-month trial separation to figure out what they wanted from their lives. The woman, surnamed Zhang, 26, a resident of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, said that she met Shi online last November and they got married in April this year, reports the China Daily.

August 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - While the US officials have maintained that there is 90 percent chance that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud has been killed in a drone strike earlier this month, President Barack Obama, it seems, has no doubt about the Taliban chieftain's death. During a live radio broadcast from the White House, Obama said: "You've got the Pakistan Army for the first time fighting in a very aggressive way and that's how we took out Mehsud, the top Taliban leader in Pakistan who was also one of Osama Bin Laden's key allies." Obama said Mehsud's death was made possible due to an intensive US operation and sustained pressure on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda along the restive Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

August 14th, 2009 Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), - Former Bundaberg surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel a.k.a.

August 11th, 2009 BRISBANE - A Brisbane judge has ruled that former Bundaberg and Indian-born surgeon Jayant Patel will face six charges in a single trial. In the Queensland Supreme Court on Tuesday, Justice Peter Lyons ruled Patel, 59, would face the three manslaughter and two grievous bodily harm charges at the one trial.

August 7th, 2009 LONDON - A mysterious flying object, believed to be a UFO, was captured flying across the screen during a live TV broadcast. The object was captured as BBC Look North's Colin Briggs read the breakfast headlines in front of a screen showing live webcam footage of the River Tyne in central Newcastle.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit Indian newsagent, Mukund Patel, has charged the Barclays Bank of fleecing him of over seven thousand pounds. Seventy-two-year-old Patel claimed that only did the bank take away his money, but it also told him to get a loan to cover the overdraft.ccording to The Sun, Patel paid in a 73.34-pound cheque at Barclays for his gas bill, but the bank debited 7,334 pounds - 100 times the amount - from his account.

July 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah aka Radio Mullah is injured and is hiding in the terrains of Peochar along with his close aides, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik has said. Malik claimed the security forces have surrounded Fazlullah and his accomplices, and that they would be arrested soon.

July 19th, 2009 PESHAWAR - While news about him being seriously injured and nearing his death are doing rounds, Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah aka Radio Mullah has once again been heard over his illegal FM radio station. According to residents of Mingora, the largest town of the Valley, Fazlullah was heard making announcements on his illegal frequency three to four days back.

July 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - Dr Aafia Siddiqui has denied US allegations that she attempted to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents during her detention in Afghanistan.

July 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - A judge has denied a request for a new trial for Indian-born fashion designer Anand Jon. His lawyers asked for a new trial on the basis of juror misconduct, saying a juror had improperly contacted Jon's sister.

June 25th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian Islamic leaders are dismayed at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's criticism of the burqa as a threat to "the equality and dignity of the female," saying his comments do not reflect the reality about the status of women in Islam. The French President's comments were also tainted by hypocrisy, as his own track record on gender issues left a lot to be desired, said Iqbal Patel, president of Australian Federation of Islamic Councils.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - A Cambridge University classicist says that the trial and execution of Athenian philosopher Socrates was justified by the law of the time. Professor Paul Cartledge says that Socrates was guilty of the charges levelled against him.

June 7th, 2009 KATHMANDU - A businessman from Gorakhpur town in India was killed in southern Nepal allegedly after a dispute over money with his own Indian partners, police said. Zakir Mussalman was gunned down Saturday night by an armed group in Manpura village in Kapilavastu district, the birthplace of the Buddha.

May 25th, 2009 BRISBANE - Former Bundaberg Hospital surgeon Jayant Patel will face separate trials on fraud and manslaughter charges. In a pre-trial review today the Crown agreed the eight fraud charges Dr Patel is facing should be heard at a separate trial from the three manslaughter and two grievous bodily harm charges he also faces.