UAE police seize 1.5 mn pills

October 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - A man, alleged to have raped and killed at least 18 women in the past five years, was arrested in Karnataka's Mangalore town, police said Wednesday. Accused Mohan Kumar alias Anand (46) has been arrested under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 302 and 376 for his alleged involvement in rape and murder of 18 or more women in the last five years, Mangalore Superintendent of Police A.S.

October 13th, 2009 BOGOTA - Police seized two tonnes of cocaine in a ranch in northwestern Colombia and arrested a minor who was guarding the load, the authorities said Tuesday. The raid took place over the weekend in a rural area in the municipality of Necocli, in the province of Antioquia.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - A heated row has cropped up between 10, Downing Street and BBC after a reporter shocked the Prime Minister during a live television interview on the opening day of Labour's annual conference in Brighton by asking whether he took pills to help him "get through". Brown's aides last night said they were amazed that despite issuing denials to an internet rumor in recent weeks, and specifically to the BBC, the reporter - Andrew Marr still went ahead and asked the question.

September 10th, 2009 QUETTA - Quetta police has arrested three people and seized hundreds of wireless sets, which were stolen from NATO supply containers, during a raid on a warehouse in Pakistan's Spini area. Earlier, militants had burnt eight NATO tankers in Quetta and fled with the biggest haul of wireless devices.

September 8th, 2009 Ecuador police bust half-ton of processed cocaineQUITO, Ecuador — Police in Ecuador say they have seized a half-ton of processed cocaine disguised as a shipment of fertilizer. The nation's anti-drug chief, Col.

September 2nd, 2009 AP source: DJ AM autopsy finds pills in stomachNEW YORK — DJ AM had prescription pills in his stomach and one in his throat when police found him dead in his apartment, a New York City official said Wednesday. The official told The Associated Press that six pills were found in the celebrity disc jockey's stomach and that the pill in his throat appeared to be the powerful painkiller OxyContin.

August 26th, 2009 Myanmar reports major drug bust near Thai borderYANGON, Myanmar — Police in Myanmar seized more than 100 blocks of heroin and nearly 3 million methamphetamine tablets near the border with Thailand in one of the military-ruled country's largest drug seizures, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday. An anti-drug squad confiscated two guns and ammunition and arrested four people in the raid Monday on two houses in the northeastern town of Tachileik, the Myanma Ahlin newspaper said.

July 29th, 2009 Calif. man convicted in tussle with flight crewLOS ANGELES — A California businessman accused of punching an off-duty pilot and flight attendant during a flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles has been convicted of interfering with a flight crew. The U.S. attorney's office says James Allen Cameron of Anaheim was found guilty of the felony charge on Monday and faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

July 23rd, 2009 LINCOLNSHIRE - A 15-year-old boy in Lincolnshire county of England has become first student to be convicted in a racially harassment case and now faces threat of a year in a young offenders' institute. The 15-year-old boy, whose name has been withheld, has been convicted of 'racially aggravated harassment', which caused a 14-year-old classmate to attempt suicide by repeatedly calling her "wog, coon, nigger, gorilla and golliwog" for six months, The Telegraph reports.

July 22nd, 2009 Police seize 'La Dolce Vita' cafe for mob tiesROME — Italian authorities on Wednesday seized about euro200 million ($284 million) in assets and businesses owned by a crime syndicate, including the Cafe de Paris of "La Dolce Vita" movie fame. Rome police and anti-mafia officials said that 12 other restaurants, apartments and luxury cars allegedly linked to the 'ndrangheta were also impounded in the operation.

July 15th, 2009 BANGKOK - Myanmar authorities intercepted nearly one tonne of heroin in Shan state in one of the biggest drug busts in recent history, Thai media reports said Wednesday. The massive seizure, netting 950 kg of heroin and 340,000 methamphetamine pills, was made Monday in Tachilek, in northeastern Myanmar, the Bangkok Post reported, citing anti-narcotics officers who spoke on condition of anonymity.

June 20th, 2009 Italian police arrest 14 in child porn crackdownROME — Italian police said Saturday they had arrested 14 people and seized some 150,000 computer files in a major crackdown on online child pornography. Police in Catania, Sicily, also placed 250 people under investigation across the country, describing the crackdown as the biggest such operation in Italy.

June 16th, 2009 Guatemala seizes 9.9 million pseudoephedrine pillsGUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan authorities confiscated nearly 10 million pseudoephedrine pills worth $33 million on Tuesday — the country's biggest seizure of the methamphetamine precursor, police said. The 9.9 million pills were seized from a shipping container at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala's main port on the Pacific coast, said police spokesman Donald Gonzalez.

June 16th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Transvestites in Malaysia have turned to contraceptive pills to become more of a woman. They believe that the drug will help convert their manly bodies into the more curvy female figure.

May 12th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar has said that US can never be Pakistan's friend as it wants is to seize the atomic program by creating unrest here and proving that Pakistan is a failed state. Giving a lecture here in Aiwan Karkunan-e-Tehreek-e-Pakistan, he said the US wants the Afghan war to spill over and spread in the tribal areas of Pakistan.