Body count at the home of convicted American rapist reaches six
Sunday November 01 2009
Police in the US have arrested a convicted rapist after they found six dead bodies at his house.
Police spokesman Lieutenant Thomas Stacho said Anthony Sowell, 50, was arrested about noon yesterday in his inner-city neighbourhood in Cleveland, Ohio.
The find was made after police called to Sowell's house to arrest him on a charge of rape. Sowell has spent already 15 years in prison for rape but was released in 2004.
Mafia boss held after 15 years on run
Italian police have captured a mobster at a farmhouse on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius after 15 years on the run, the country's foreign minister has said.
Roberto Maroni said the fugitive, Salvatore Russo, is a Camorra crime syndicate boss who has been convicted of several murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Police said Russo had several weapons, including an Uzi and a pistol, when they found him in a hiding space behind a wall on the farm during a raid yesterday.
Eight Kabul bomb suspects in custody
EIGHT people, including one in Saudi Arabia, in have been arrested in connection with last week's deadly attack on a Kabul guest house used by UN employees, an Afghan intelligence chief said yesterday. He said those arrested claimed the assailants came from Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Icelandic banks ease capital controls
Iceland's central bank said yesterday it will allow investors to convert sales proceeds from investments made after November 1 into foreign currency, its first easing of strict capital controls put in place last year.
It said new investments must be registered with the central bank for the transfer of any proceeds out of Iceland to be authorised. This will help ensure that it can track inflows and strengthen foreign exchange reserves through market intervention.
15 killed in mass shooting in Mexico
A MEXICAN farmworkers' leader and 14 people who were apparently his relatives and employees were found dead in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora.
The victims included farm leader Margarito Montes, 10 other men, one woman and three minors.
Bomb suspect kills police interrogator
A MAN being questioned in connection with last week's deadly double bombings in Iraq's capital seized a gun and killed an investigative officer during an interrogation.
The man, who was not identified, snatched a gun from a guard, wounded him and then killed the investigator before being shot himself.
Sunday Independent
