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A DEAD Michigan man’s parrot could turn his wife into a jailbird. Bud, a smart and vulgar African grey parrot, may know who shot and killed his owner Martin Duram last May in his Ensley home in the US, according to Mr Duram’s parents and local police. Weeks after Mr Duram has murdered, Bud began squawking “Don’t f**king shoot” — leading Mr Duram’s father, Charles, to believe those were his son’s last words. “I personally think he was there and he remembers it and he was saying it,” Charles told NBC affiliate WOOD-TV. His wife, Lillian, agrees. “That bird picks up on everything and anything and it’s got the filthiest mouth around,” she said. No one has been charged with Mr Duram’s murder, which police initially thought was a double-homicide when they found Mr Duram’s body riddled with five shots and his wife, Glenna, with a headshot wound. But Glenna ended up surviving — and now police are investigating whether she murdered her husband and then attempted to kill he...

A Georgia homeowner was attacked Tuesday by a woman dressed in a burka armed with the American flag that was in the homeowner’s yard,  The Smoking Gun reported. Aisha Ibrahim, 30, allegedly pulled Old Glory out of a mailbox in Lawrenceville, which is outside Atlanta, and “in a threatening manner” swung the flag at the homeowner, the report said. A fight ensued until a neighbor was reportedly able to hold Ibrahim, whose eyes were only visible, until police arrived. Authorities told FoxNews.com that the fight appeared to be unprovoked. The alleged victim was identified as Dami Arno, who reportedly called for hate-crime charges against Ibrahim. “A Muslim women tore my flag pole down this morning and attacked me and my daughter with it. After the fight she was charged with simple battery 2 counts, nothing else. No hate crime, no destruction of property, no criminal trespassing -- nothing,” Arno reportedly posted on Facebook. Capt. Tim Wallis, from the Lawerenceville Polic...

BERLIN, June 2 (Reuters) -  Three  Syrian men with suspected links to Islamic State have been  arrested  in  Germany  on suspicion of planning an  attack  here, the federal public prosecutor said on Thursday. It said in a statement that 27-year-old Hamza C., 25-year-old Mahood B. and 31-year-old Abd Arahman A.K. had been  arrested  in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg and Baden-Wuerttemberg. Their homes were being searched. The federal public prosecutor also said that an arrest warrant had been issued for another Syrian man, 25-year-old Saleh A. Two of the accused - Saleh A. and Hamza C. - had joined IS in Syria in the spring of 2014 and received the task from IS leaders to carry out an  attack  on the old town of Duesseldorf, a city in western  Germany , the federal prosecutor said. They later persuaded the other men to take part in the  attack , the prosecutor said. Saleh A. and Hamza C....

ON the front page of a New York City newspaper on January 2, 1985, Bernhard Goetz proclaimed “I’m sorry, but it had to be done”. The bold headline referred to an incident in Lower Manhattan 11 days earlier when Goetz was travelling on a train. The New York local was approached by four men who allegedly tried to mug him. Instead of handing over his wallet, Goetz pulled out a gun and fired off five shots, seriously wounding all four men. He handed himself in to police nine days later but escaped charges of attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment. He willingly became the face of vigilante justice, so it was no surprise he was happy to talk about a suspected rapist who was beaten to death this week. ‘Subway gunman’ Bernhard Goetz shot four men on a train in 1984. He still defends vigilante justice. Source: AP Goetz, known these days as the “subway gunman”, was asked about the death of Earl Nash, a man with a lengthy arrest record who forced his way in to ...

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Islamabad: Residents of the federal capital and Rawalpindi endured a powerful storm late Wednesday night, with some reports of as many as seven dead and dozens more injured. Seven died and dozens were injured as the heavy rains also affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, including in Peshawar, Charsadda, Mardan and Khyber Agency. Nowshera only reported injuries, while Kalam and Mansehra reported damages, but no casualties. According to Pesco, efforts are underway to restore electricity from 21 tripped feeders. Reports poured in on social media that strong winds of over a hundred kilometres per hour uprooted trees and knocked over billboards, damaging property and blocking roads as the storm raged for hours. Power supply remained disrupted for the duration of the storm in many parts of the twin cities. Photos circulating on Twitter showed trees fallen on cars, with one user posting a video of fearful shoppers reacting to the storm inside the ca...

TWO men have been killed in a tragic murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles, forcing the campus into lockdown. LAPD chief Charlie Beck confirmed the shooter was one of the two men killed inside a small office in the campus’ engineering complex. “The important thing for people to take away from this is the campus is now safe,” Beck said at a news conference. The identity of the men, and the shooter’s motive, have not been disclosed. The campus was placed on lockdown just after 10am Wednesday (3am Thursday AEST), with  KTLA  reporting the shooting occurred at the campus’ Engineering IV building. The shooting was first reported at Boelter Hall, on the south of the campus. The school’s newspaper, the  Daily Bruin , reported the suspect was a white male who was wearing a black jacket and black pants. The shooting sparked a massive response from local and federal law enforcement, with thousands of people on campus running for safety and loc...

A former tycoon wanted on allegations of embezzlement and fraud in Taiwan has died in a car accident in California, the island's foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday. He had been hiding for years in the United States. The official Central News Agency said Wang You-theng, former chairman of the China Rebar Group, was killed in a Friday morning crash on a highway in West Covina, Calif. His wife was injured but was in stable condition, the report said. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Eleanor Wang confirmed the report when reached by telephone, but did not provide further details. Wang founded Rebar in 1959 to build steel beams and made a fortune from the business, but when Rebar sank into financial difficulties in 2006, Wang fled Taiwan and eventually arrived in the United States, where he had lived as one of the most wanted fugitives by Taiwanese authorities. Wang had been indicted on a long list of charges, including fraud, money laundering and insider trading, the news agency s...

At least 2,234 Indians have contracted HIV while receiving blood transfusions in hospitals in the past 17 months alone, say officials. The information was revealed by the country's National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) in response to a petition filed by information activist Chetan Kothari. Mr Khothari told the BBC that he was "shocked" by the revelation. India has more than two million people living with HIV/Aids. The highest number of patients who had been infected with HIV as a result of contaminated blood in hospitals, were from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh with 361 cases, Mr Kothari's RTI (Right to Information) query revealed. The western states of Gujarat with 292 cases and Maharashtra with 276 cases rank second and third respectively. The Indian capital Delhi is at number four with 264 cases. "This is the official data, provided by the government-run Naco. I believe the real numbers would be double or triple that," Mr Kothar...

A 70-YEAR-OLD woman and her 41-year-old daughter have been arrested after they were found living in a filthy mini-van with 38 cats and newborn kittens. Fox  reports that police were called to check on the homeless family and called in animal control after they found the mini-van stinking of urine and faeces. Alexandra Wingate and her mum, Sharyn Wingate, were living in this filthy van with 38 cats. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Tim Poorman of Fulton County Animal Control told Fox News that he found days-old kittens inside a cup holder and some in the dashboard. “We went through trash for the cats, digging on our hands and knees,” he said. Mum ... Sharyn Wingate. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Daughter ... Alexandra Wingate told police she was a vet. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Police found Alexandra Wingate, 41, in the car. She told police that she was a local vet waiting for her mother. However, police found they had war...

A PREGNANT mother has been charged after police found two injured toddlers chained up in her backyard and six other abused children inside the house. Porucha Phillips, 34, was arrested in San Antonio, Texas after concerned neighbours called cops about 11.45pm Thursday local time to report a crying child. Police discovered a three-year-old girl tied to a door with a dog leash and her two-year-old brother tied to the ground with a metal chain around his ankle. “I would describe it as disgusting,” Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood said of the scene. “It shocks your conscience when you think what kind of individual could treat children, who in my opinion are gifts from God, like this.” Bexar County Sheriff’s Office spokesman James Keith said the restraints were “the same kind of setup you would use for a dog.” Eight abused children were found at this San Antonio, Texas home. Picture: Googlemaps Source: Supplied Two of the children, including one with a...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a trio of Earth-like planets that are the best bet so far for finding life outside our solar system. The three orbit an ultracool dwarf star a mere 39 light years away, and are likely comparable in size and temperature to Earth and Venus, they reported in a study, published in  Nature . “This is the first opportunity to find chemical traces of life outside our solar system,” said lead author Michael Gillon, an astrophysicist at the University of Liege in Belgium. All three planets had the “winning combination” of being similar in size to Earth, “potentially habitable” and close enough so their atmospheres can be analysed with current technology, he told  AFP . Star gazers will need to use the Hubble telescope to gather more information on the new planets. Picture: Supplied. Source: News Limited The find opens up a whole new “hunting ground” for habitable planets, he added. Gallon and colleagues calibrated a 60-centimetre tele...