A professional Mexican soccer player is accused of having ties to drug cartels who are involved in a major kidnapping ring. Omar “El Gato” Ortiz is accused of using his celebrity status to get close to at least 20 wealthy Mexicans, including the husband of pop star Gloria Trevi, who were kidnapped by the cartels. [...]

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A Russian mother pushing her 18-month old child in a stroller on a Moscow street over the weekend was left weeping when the sidewalk opened and sucked her infant away. The 26-year-old woman was pushing her child in the city of Bryansk when the ground caved in underneath them. Both mother and child went into [...]

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A 63-year-old Canadian woman and her 67-year-old brother were arrested and charged with the 2000 honor killing of her daughter in India. Malkit Kaur Sidhu and her brother Surjit Singh Badesha were arrested Friday in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge without incident. The siblings will be held pending an extradition hearing. Authorities say Sidhu [...]

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Eleven people were killed in New Zealand when their hot air balloon crashed near the town of Carterton after hitting some power cables. The accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. Saturday (12:30 ET). Reports say 5 couples and the pilot were aboard the balloon when it went up in flames. One witness told reporters that she was [...]

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Miracles do happen. An Indonesian girl, who disappeared during the December 2004 tsunami, was reunited with her family this week. The girl named Wati was eight years old when she was separated from her mother during the massive waves that hit their village in Ujong Baroh on the island of Sumatra. Earlier this week, a [...]

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