New York officials want to know how a jail inmate threw a lavish bar mitzvah for his son inside a detention facility, complete with live music and catered kosher food.
Inmate’s behind-bars bar mitzvah rattles chain of N.Y. officials
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Acid Attacks Have Hong Kong’s Busiest Zone on Edge
Something is amiss on the streets of Mongkok. Ordinarily, the bustling 4.4 square mile patch of shops and food stalls is packed with some of the highest rates of pedestrian traffic in the world. In Hong Kong, Mongkok has become synonymous with the city’s best bargains and slowest-moving sidewalks, but its over-saturation has always been part of its charm.
New Jersey police officer pounds man on tape
Surveillance video shows a Passaic, New Jersey, police officer beating a 49-year-old man standing idly on a street corner. Surveillance tape from Lawrence’s Grill and Bar in Passaic on May 29 shows a police car pull up to Ronnie Holloway, who is standing still on the curb outside the restaurant
Black mayor of Mississippi town brings ‘atomic bomb of change’
James Young still remembers the Ku Klux Klan tormenting his neighborhood.
Will The Housing Bubble Burst in 2007?
Sin ce early 2000, economists have been sounding the housing bubble alarm with increasing urgency. And while many markets around the country have seen prices drop in the last year, the dire, across-the-board correction that many predicted has yet to materialize
Ex-inmate recalls days of abuse at Abu Ghraib
Abu Ahmed says he was there: An Iraqi held prisoner at Abu Ghraib by the American military when inmates were abused. He says he was kept naked and saw other naked inmates stacked onto a pile while photos were taken, photos that would become public and bring shame to the United States
Child ‘Slumdog’ star’s shack spared — so far
Indian authorities cleared part of an "illegally-built" slum where "Slumdog Millionaire" child star Rubina Ali lives, but her shanty was safe so far, police said Wednesday.
Worldwide spread of the swine flu virus
The “millefiori” dish (the name means “thousand flowers”) was found buried in the grave of a Roman Londoner, the museum said. Based on the other grave goods found at the site, archaeologists believe the person buried there was wealthy, the museum said. The dish was highly fragmented when archaeologists unearthed it, the museum said, but it had been held together over the centuries by the earth around it
Fargo gets ready for possible evacuation
City officials spent much of Wednesday working on a revised plan after the National Weather Service issued a foreboding forecast for the Red River: a 41-foot crest predicted to hit Saturday. The last flood even near that level was in 1997, when the river crested at 39.6 feet
In Berlin, a Gentrifying Neighborhood Under Siege
Sirens breaking the silence of the night, cars engulfed by meter-high flames. This is not a scene from the banlieues of Paris, but from the trendy Eastern Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, where in recent weeks an ongoing battle against gentrification has intensified.