Sudanese woman, 27, who is a doctor and eight months PREGNANT to be flogged to death for the 'crime' of marrying a Christian man

A Sudanese court gave a 27-year-old woman who is eight-months pregnant with her second child, until Thursday to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith and return to Islam or face a death sentence. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim was charged with apostasy as well as adultery for marrying a Christian man, something prohibited for Muslim women to do and which makes the marriage void. The final ruling will be announced on later today. Ibrahim's case was the first of its kind to be heard in Sudan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2628895/Sudanese-woman-eight-months-pregnant-flogged-death-unless-she.html

Massachusetts woman slashes boyfriend’s neck with ax, tells cops he’s dead

Massachusetts man was in a critical condition with neck wounds after his girlfriend attacked him with an ax and told cops he was dead. Rhonda Ravanis, 47 of Lunenburg, left boyfriend Robert Volpe, 53, in a pool of blood before marching over to a neighbor’s home and bashed the front door with the ax and smashed a window, police said. Cops arrived moments later, but the 5-foot-10 woman lunged at them and spit at officers until she was finally cuffed. “I axed him, he is gone,” she told cops. “I just killed him.” The crazed woman even tried to jump out of the vehicle at one point, cops said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/massachusetts-woman-slashes-boyfriend-neck-ax-tells-cops-dead-article-1.1768584

Boy, 14, 'tried to beat elderly woman, 87, to death while she slept in her nursing home bed'

A 14-year-old boy accused of brutally beating an elderly woman while she slept in her nursing home bed, has been arrested following a nearly week-long manhunt in California. Police nabbed Raymond Michael Miranda in a Temecula hotel room last night over the April 17 attack which left an 87-year-old woman fighting for her life in hospital. Raymond and a 15-year-old boy allegedly broke into the unidentified woman's room at the Camelot Independent Living complex in Hemet and violently beat her in a botched robbery attempt about 2am. Some reports also claim they splashed bleach on the victim. While officials are legally prohibited from identifying juvenile suspects, investigators made an exception with Raymond who they say is dangerous.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613297/Teen-arrested-beating-87-year-old-woman.html

At least four dead and hundreds missing after South Korean ferry sinks off country’s southwestern coast

About 320 of the passengers were students headed to the resort island of Jeju. About 160 people had been rescued, but hundreds of others - many of them high school students - were still missing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-korean-ferry-sinking-500-passengers-aboard-article-1.1757694

TWENTY people injured and seven critical after male sophomore, 16, goes on stabbing spree with two knives at Pennsylvania high school

Twenty people have been injured - some with life-threatening wounds - in a stabbing spree Wednesday morning at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. Murrysville police chief Thomas Seefeld confirmed a 16-year-old male student is in custody. He said an assistant principal wrestled the suspect to the ground after he ran through multiple classrooms and hallways brandishing two knives. Four of the victims were airlifted to hospital and three were being operated on, according to Westmoreland County emergency management and hospital officials. Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville and five other hospitals including Allegheny General Hospital and UPMC-Presby were treating patients. The majority of victims are 14-17 year old students though one adult - a male security guard - suffered a stomach wound, Seefeld confirmed. Police were called to the school by a resource officer about 7:13 a.m., about 15 minutes after the school doors opened for the day. One witness told NBC News that he saw 'blood all over the floor.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2600608/At-six-people-injured-high-school-stabbing-spree.html

Scissor-stabbing rampage at Toronto office building

TORONTO -- Multiple people are being treated in hospital for life-threatening stab wounds after a man armed with scissors went on a rampage in a Toronto office building Wednesday morning, police say. “I can tell you that there are between two and five victims,” Toronto Police Const. Jenniferjit Sidhu confirmed to the Toronto Sun. “There has been multiple emergency runs to a trauma centre.” EMS confirmed a man and woman - both in their 30s - were rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Two other male patients were also taken to Sunnybrook hospital with serious injuries. Emergency crews were called about a stabbing at 4110 Yonge St., near York Mills Rd., around 9:35 a.m. One man is in custody, but Sidhu could not confirm if that was the suspect. The fifth floor of the building is in lockdown.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/09/multiple-stabbing-near-yonge-york-mills

Man lost at sea while performing California beach baptism

A man swept out to sea by seven-foot waves during an oceanside baptismal ceremony in California on Sunday remained missing a day later as hopes faded he would be found alive, officials said on Monday. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Adam Stanton said three men were initially washed away by the surf while performing the religious ceremony, held on the shore of the Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve in the small Santa Barbara County city of Guadalupe. Two of the men were able swim back to shore without injuries, but the third man, whom authorities have not named, was still lost on Monday afternoon, according to a statement by the Santa Barbara Fire Department. The missing man had been helping to perform a baptism in association with the Jesus Christ Light of the Sky church, which holds similar events two or three times a year, according to local newspaper the Santa Maria Times.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/01/man-lost-at-sea-while-performing-california-beach-baptism

British man sentenced to death for insulting Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan

A Pakistani court has convicted a British man with a history of mental illness of blasphemy and sentenced him to death for insulting Islam’s Prophet. Prosecutor Javed Gul said Mohammed Asghar had been arrested under the country’s blasphemy laws in 2010 in Rawalpindi for claiming to be the Prophet Muhammad. Gul says a judge sentenced Asghar, who is of Pakistani origin, on Thursday. Sarah Belal, the director of the Justice Project Pakistan, which had previously defended Asghar says he suffers from mental illness. She says they’ll appeal the conviction. Scores have been arrested in Pakistan under the country’s harsh blasphemy laws, which rights groups say are too broad and vague. The sentence can be life in prison or death, although the death penalty is rarely carried out in Pakistan.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-sentenced-death-pakistan-muhammad-insult-article-1.1590031

Girl, 14, in critical condition as 15-year-old boy is charged with rape and attempted murder

A schoolboy has been charged with the attempted murder and rape of a 14-year-old girl who was left for dead in a park. The girl was found alone in Luton, Bedfordshire, with severe head injuries by a member of the public who called the emergency services. A spokesman for Bedfordshire Police said today that it has charged a 15-year-old Luton boy with attempted murder and rape.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545284/Girl-14-critical-condition-15-year-old-boy-charged-attempted-murder-rape.html

88-year-old on suicide watch after 'shooting his wife' in Nevada hospital

An 88-year-old man allegedly shot his elderly wife in the chest while she was lying in a hospital bed. According to police William Dresser, 88, walked into the rehab unit of Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center, Nevada, yesterday morning before shooting his wife once in the chest with a pistol. Dresser was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and has been placed on suicide watch by officers. His wife, who has not been identified, suffered life-threatening injuries and was transferred to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno. No details of why she was originally admitted to the hospital were released, but officials don't suspect foul play. Dresser's wife was alone in the rehab unit when allegedly he carried out the attack around 11.30am.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542566/88-year-old-suicide-watch-shooting-wife-Nevada-hospital.html

Dog owner, 27, fights for life after being savaged by her own pets at home

A woman is in hospital fighting for her life today after being savaged by two of her own dogs. Neighbours say they heard the 27-year-old's screams as she was attacked in her home in Leeds on Monday afternoon. Armed West Yorkshire Police officers were called to the address in Dawlish Avenue to help 'a woman in distress with serious dog bite injuries', the force said. MailOnline understands the victim was home alone when she was mauled and she is currently in a critical condition.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521254/Dog-owner-27-fights-life-savaged-pet-home.html

‘Dead’ baby wakes up and starts screaming at Chinese funeral parlour just moments before cremation

-Shocked funeral home workers heard baby crying

-Boy has severe deformities and parents agreed to stop treatment

-Doctor who wrongly declared him dead has licence revoked

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511120/Dead-baby-wakes-starts-screaming-Chinese-funeral-parlour-just-moments-cremation.html

Iranian criminal rushed to hospital after he survives public hanging... so that he can be strung up again

A death row prisoner in Iran is to be hanged for a second time once he 'becomes well again' after he survived an initial bungled execution. The 37-year-old man named as Alireza M was 'put to death' in the Islamic regime's Bojnourd prison last Wednesday for drugs offences. After 12 minutes, he was certified as dead and taken to the prison morgue. But when his family went to collect his body the following day, they noticed he was still breathing and rushed him to hospital. One family member told Iran's state-run media: 'When we were told the death sentence had been carried out, we went to collect his body to prepare for a memorial service. 'But when we went to the coroner's office we found him alive again, which made his two daughters very happy.' Once officials were told Alireza M had survived, they put him under armed guard at the hospital to await a second execution. A judiciary official told the state media: 'The verdict was the death sentence, and it will be carried out once the man gets well again.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2460821/Criminal-survives-public-execution-Iran-rushed-hospital-recover--taken-hanged-second-time.html

ANOTHER man, 77, left clinging to life after flesh-eating bacteria that already killed NINE attacks him through crab bite

A minor crab bite has left a 77-year-old Florida man fighting for his life after he was infected with the flesh-eating virus that claimed its ninth victim over the weekend. George Clarke, of Yulee, was out crabbing Saturday night in Nassau County at the Georgia-Florida state line when a crustacean snapped at him, infecting the elderly man with Vibrio vulnificus. So far, 27 cases of the flesh-eating infection have been confirmed in Florida this year, nine of them fatal.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442627/Flesh-eating-bacteria-attacks-man-killing-9.html

13 people, including 3-year-old boy, shot at South Side park

Thirteen people, including a 3-year-old boy who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, were shot at a Chicago park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Thursday night, authorities said.

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The attack took place about 10:15 p.m. and fire officials called an Emergency Medical Services Plan II, sending at least 10 ambulances to the scene. Chicago police were making no information about what happened public, except to say that the shooting appeared to be gang-related. The shootings took place on a basketball court on the 51st Street side of Cornell Square Park near Wood Street.

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The victims' ages, sexes and injuries were, according to Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines: 

The 3-year-old boy, shot in the ear, in critical condition at Mount Sinai;
A 17-year-old girl, shot in the foot, condition stabilized at Holy Cross Hospital;
A 15-year-old boy shot in the arm, stabilized at Holy Cross;
A man, 27, shot in the leg and wrist, serious condition at Mount Sinai;
A man, 24, shot twice in the stomach, serious condition at Mount Sinia;
A man, 21, shot in the leg, serious condition at Mount Sinai;
A man, 41, shot in the buttocks, serious condition at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital;
A woman, 33, shot in the shoulder, condition stabilized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital;
A man, 31, shot in the buttocks, condition stabilized at Northwestern;
A woman, 23, shot in the foot, condition stabilized at St. Anthony Hospital;
A man, 37, shot in the leg, in good condition at Stroger;
A man, 25, shot in the knee, in good condition at Northwestern;
And a man, 33, who drove himself to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park with a gunshot wound to the leg and who was treated and released.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-multiple-people-including-3yearold-shot-in-south-side-attack-20130919,0,352520.story

'I'm going to knock out the next white person who walks by': Chilling words of man before he punched 62-year-old stranger to the ground in racist attack that has left victim brain dead

A 31-year-old African American who allegedly said he wanted to attack the next white person who walked by could be charged with hate crimes after punching three people in an apparent racially motivated attack. One of his victims, 62-year-old Jeffrey Babbitt, has been left brain damaged after being punched to the ground in New York's Union Square on Wednesday afternoon, in a senseless attack that shocked onlookers. Witnesses were shocked at the unexpected violence in Union Square on Wednesday afternoon, as Lashawn Marten punched Mr Babbitt and two other men after allegedly making racist comments.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2414966/Im-going-knock-white-person-walks-Chilling-words-man-punched-62-year-old-ground-apparent-hate-crime-left-victim-brain-dead.html

Man Comes Back to Life After Being Declared Dead

DAYTON, Ohio (KTLA) – A 37-year-old man came back to life 45 minutes after medical personnel declared him dead, according to officials at Kettering Medical Center. Anthony Yahle was rushed to the hospital Aug. 5 after being found unconscious by his wife. Later that afternoon, Yahle’s heart went into a fatal arrhythmia. The medical staff tried to resuscitate Yahle for nearly a hour with no success, cardiologist Dr. Raja Nazir said. At that point Nazir called time of death. He told the family and allowed them to see Yahle to say goodbye. Yahle’s 17-year-old son, Lawrence, said he was in disbelief. “I pointed at him and said ‘Dad you’re not going to die today’,” Lawrence said. Within moments Yahle’s heartbeat started to show signs of activity. “I’ve never seen anybody who we have pronounced dead come back,” Nazir said. The husband and father of three was released from the hospital with no further complications. He was set to return to work on Monday. “I’m calling it a miracle because I’ve never seen anything like it,” Nazir said.

http://ktla.com/2013/08/22/man-comes-back-to-life-after-being-declared-dead/#axzz2cnEYdaKo

Five people gunned down with automatic weapon outside church holding prayer service as they handed out meals to the homeless

Five men are in intensive care after they were shot outside a church in Uptown, Chicago. The Baptist church had been hosting a soup kitchen for the homeless and was in the process of serving meals to more than 100 people when the men were shot outside. Three of the men were members of a local gang and it is believed the incident was a hit by a rival group, but ‘at least two’ of the victims had been at the charity meal.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398720/Uptown-shooting-5-people-gunned-outside-Chicago-church-gave-meals-homeless.html

German tourist has arm bitten off in shark attack while snorkelling near beach in Hawaii

A German tourist is battling for her life after having her arm bitten off by a shark in an attack near a beach in Hawaii, it has been reported. The woman in her 20s was snorkelling just 50 yards from Makena beach in South Maui when the shark struck. She is currently in a critical condition at Maui Medical Centre, having also been bitten on the foot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2394457/BREAKING-NEWS-German-tourist-arm-bitten-shark-attack-snorkelling-near-beach-Hawaii.html

Housekeeper, 52, fights for life after pack of 15 stray dogs 'eat her to the bone' as she waited for a bus in broad daylight

A woman is fighting for her life after suffering a heart attack brought on by a horrific dog attack that has left her with severe wounds from head to toe. Maria Arcos was set upon by a pack of at least 15 dogs while she was on her way to start a new job on Monday morning. The 52-year-old, from Houston, was passing through an underpass when she was surrounded by the pack of strays, the ring leader of which is believed to be a pit bull cross. The wild animals savaged her, pulling her to the ground and biting her arms and legs. Arcos was left with severe wounds and is now in hospital in a critical condition. Her family fear the attack left her so badly injured she might not pull through. Her stepson Oscar Reyes said: 'They were eating her - the dogs was eating her to the bone. 'They bit her arms, her legs, her neck. They cover her. 'Supposedly in 48 hours, if she doesn’t get better, she’s not going to make it.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2375811/Pack-dogs-savages-stepmother-Maria-Arcos-Houston-Texas.html