For the first time in its modern history, Icelandic police officers carried out a fatal shooting early Monday with an exchange of gunfire with a man reported to be firing at cars from his apartment window, The Los Angeles Times reported. Two cops were wounded in the shootout, which followed a 5 a.m. emergency call from neighbors
Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was sentenced to six years in a high-security prison on Tuesday for masterminding an acid attack that nearly blinded Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin, Reuters reported. Yuri Zarutsky, who admitted throwing acid in Filin's face last January, was sentenced to 10 years in prison while Andrei Lipatov, who drove Zarutsky to the ballet, was sentenced to four years.
Navi Pillay, who heads the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner, said at a Geneva Conference on Monday that a growing body of evidence collected by investigators "points to the involvement of senior Syrian officials," which include President Bashar Assad for crimes against humanity and war crimes,
24-year-old Itzcoatl Ocampo, an Iraqi war veteran, who had been accused of fatally stabbing four homeless men in Southern Califorinia was pronounced dead last Friday after falling ill at the Orange County Jail, CNN reported. Ocampo had been awaiting trial but died in his cell after ingesting Ajax
