She saw her opportunity — and seized it. Courageous kidnapping victim Amanda Berry will never forget the moment she made her mad dash from Ariel Castro’s Cleveland “house of horrors,” ending a decade of torture, imprisonment and rape for her and two other women. Now, nearly two years after the great escape, the 53-year-old Castro is dead from a jail suicide while the women are rebuilding their lives — and s ...

A US $20million villa development project at Liburd Hill, St. James’ Parish, will provide many jobs for the people of Nevis. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and General Manager of HTRIP and 1st Director of Caribbean Development Consultant Ltd. (CDCL) Mr. Jian Li made that disclosure on April 17, 2015, at a ground breaking ceremony signalling the start of construction for the HTRIP Candy Resort Villa Developme ...

A Pennsylvania mother is accused of abandoning her quadriplegic son in the woods for five days recently while visiting her boyfriend in another state. According to Pennsylvania police, the 21-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy, was left lying in the woods of Cobbs Creek Park with only a blanket and a bible. He was found on April 10 and transported to a local hospital for treatment of eye problems, dehydra ...

As expected, President Barack Obama recommended Tuesday that Cuba be removed from the U.S. government's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Long sought by the Cuban government, Obama's decision will likely expedite plans to re-establish embassies in both Washington and Havana. In a brief message to notify Congress of his recommendation, Obama explained his action was based on specific criteria that warrant ...

A CHANCE meeting at a birthday party in St Kilda led a Dutch backpacker to being held captive for six weeks as a sex slave to a violent rapist. The 21-year-old was held hostage in a Melbourne hotel room by Alfio Anthony Granata, 47, who subjected her to beatings, sexual and psychological abuse that only ended when she stabbed Granata while he was sleeping and tried to take her own life. A Melbourne court ye ...

(CNN)The investigation into the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 has not revealed evidence of the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's motive, but he suffered from suicidal tendencies at some point before his aviation career, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Dusseldorf, Germany, said Monday. Investigators have not found any writings or conversations where Lubitz shared his motives or confessed to any plans, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twelve people were injured, four of them critically, when an apartment building collapsed and burst into flames on Thursday in New York City's East Village neighborhood, authorities said. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion, and utility officials said they were investigating whether there had been a gas explosion. The five-story brick apartment building collapsed shortly after 3 p.m ...

(CNN)The FBI has increased its reward for information on missing American Robert Levinson from $1 million to $5 million, it announced Monday. Levinson, a retired FBI agent, vanished after traveling to the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007 and is one of the longest-held U.S. citizens in history. The FBI announced the reward increase on the eighth anniversary of Levinson's disappearance -- and the day befo ...

At least 11 people were killed, including a police officer, in an attack by al Shabab fighters on a luxury hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police sources said. The Central Hotel in the heart of Mogadishu was hit by a two car bomb explosion, which was followed by heavy gunfire after attackers stormed into the building, police officers said. Al Jazeera has learned that the deputy mayor of Mogadishu, as ...

Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the magazine's well-known cartoonists, including its editor, were among those killed, as well as two police officers. A major police operation is under way to find three gunmen who fled by car. President Francois Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terror ...