Hero grandfather in dramatic rescue to save six-year-old girl who was 'abducted from her home'

Brave: John Farrell has been hailed a hero after chasing the man through the streets

A brave grandfather who spotted a six-year-old girl allegedly being snatched from her home saved her in a dramatic rescue bid.

John Farrell, 50, said he spotted a man ushering the child away and raced down from his third-floor flat in the Barrowfield area of Glasgow to help.

After chasing him through the streets on Friday night - and straight into the arms of police who arrested him - he has been hailed a hero.

4 bodies were unearthed in Jamestown, Virginia — and the archaeological community is freaking out about it

They had four bodies and several dozen possible names. For archaeologist Bill Kelso and historian James Horn, it felt like a high-stakes game of Clue. The mystery was set in Jamestown, Virginia, on the grounds of the first permanent English colony in America.

Jamestown is a strange place to be an archaeologist. It’s a popular tourist attraction, so vacationers stroll the grounds while researchers work. Any newfound relic, building site, or body has to be kept quiet by everyone who knows about it until researchers complete their work, and in this case, 2,000 people were in on the secret. (I was one of them.)

Surveillance video shows what happened before police killed an unarmed college student at a Texas car dealership

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This photo provided by Angelo State University shows Christian Taylor.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Police have asked the FBI to participate in the investigation into the death of a Texas college football player who was fatally shot by an officer during a burglary call at a car dealership.

Brazilian anti-corruption radio DJ shot dead live on air

Nothing you will not hear. Brazilian radio DJ Gleydson Carvalho (pictured above) was gunned down in a studio as he broadcast live yesterday. Two gunman burst into Radio Liberdade FM in Camocin, in north east Brazil, overpowered a receptionist and an engineer and stormed into the studio where Gleydson was talking to his listeners and shot him five times, three times in the head and twice in the chest. The killers left in a motorbike.

Policeman who killed innocent Port Harcourt resident will face justice -Wike

Special Assistant  (Media ) to  the Rivers State Governor.  Simeon  Nwakaudu said that The Rivers  State  Governor,  Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared  that  the  policeman  who killed  innocent  citizen in Port Harcourt  yesterday  will be  brought  to  justice.

Special Olympics Nigeria Athletes Given Rousing Welcome from World Games

Special Olympics Nigeria athletes at the welcome reception held in their honour yesterday in Lagos after participating at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, USA 

Team Nigeria’s athletes and officials to the Special Olympics Summer World Games in Los Angeles, USA, were given a rousing reception yesterday in Lagos with all the 41 medalists celebrated like true champions.

At the reception which held at the Vigeo Group headquarters on Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, officials of Special Olympics Nigeria rolled out red carpet to welcome the athletes who won a total of 71 medals in the seven Olympic-type sport the country participated in.

Florida man kills 2 neighbours, shoots the 3rd one over a long standing beef

Woodward in Camo sneaking up to shoot his neighbours

In a chilling police interrogation, Billy Woodward described the moment he sneaked across his front lawn wearing camouflage and shot three neighbors he had been feuding with in Titusville, Florida.

“I kept low crawling. I was on a military mission. I was going to end this war,” Woodward is heard telling Titusville police after the shooting on an interrogation tape.

Bangladesh blogger hacked to death for atheist views. The 4th to be killed in the country this year

Popular blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, 40, was killed yesterday Friday August 7th after a gang armed with machetes broke into his home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was well known for his atheist views and anti-Islamic writings.

"They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the Islamist militants," Imran H. Sarker, head of Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network told AFP

'Fantastic Four' director blames studio for the movie's horrid reviews

20th Century FoxJosh Trank.

"Fantastic Four" director Josh Trank took to Twitter on Thursday night and blamed the film's studio, 20th Century Fox, for the film's disappointing reviews.

Trank quickly deleted the tweet, but Variety took a screengrab of it while it was still online:

12 things you shouldn't do when visiting Hawaii

There may not be one single best way to vacation in Hawaii, but there are plenty of ways to do it wrong.

To have a great trip in the Aloha State, avoid these 12 pitfalls.

Then again, if nothing says vacation like speeding tickets, painful stings, and bland food, by all means ignore this advice.

Don't Automatically Opt for a Beachside Hotel

When imagining a perfect Hawaii vacation, many people envision a beachfront hotel with an ocean view.

But staying off the beach has its advantages, too.

Thai man sentenced to 30yrs in prison for Facebook posts insulting monarchy

A 48-year-old man named Pongsak Sriboonpeng was today Friday August 7th handed the lengthy prison sentence by the military court, having been prosecuted under Thailand’s royal defamation law.

His lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan told AFP that his sentence was 60 years - a decade for each six Facebook posts he made but this was halved as he had pleaded guilty.


"It's broken the record," she said about the severe jail term. She further added that because Pongsak was arrested while Thailand was still under martial law there was no right to appeal the sentence passed by the military court.

Under Section 112 of the Criminal Code, anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count.

(Photo of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit)

Inside Asia's largest red light district with hundreds of multi-storey brothels home to prostitutes - from 72-year-old women who can't bring themselves to leave, to wives fleeing violent husbands

The pictures of women applying their make-up, waiting in their rooms and playing with their children offer a rare glimpse into the lives of the sex workers who ply their trade in Asia's largest red light district.

They are the residents of Sonagachi, in the western city of Kolkata, an area swamped with hundreds of multi-storey brothels, housing roughly 14,000 prostitutes from all over India.

It is thought as many as 1,000 women arrive every year to work in the brothels, and each of them have their own tale of how they came to live in the sprawling red light district.

Decades after meeting in Nigeria, student and teacher reunite in Charlotte

Because of his name and accent, it’s not unusual for Dr. Yele Aluko’s patients to ask where he’s from.

But in the early 1990s, when he got the question from this new patient – a retired Charlotte principal and Johnson C. Smith University professor – Aluko asked one of his own: Where do you think?

Spencer Durante guessed correctly that his new heart specialist was from Nigeria, in west Africa.

Commercial plane's engine catches fire at US airport

The engine of a Delta airline plane heading to Cincinnati from Nashville caught fire at a Nashville airport in the US this morning. The fire started when the pilot turned on the engine. The passengers were immediately evacuated from the plane with no one injured or any casualties.

One of the passengers, Phil Cobucci when recounting what happened said "No one heard anything. The plane really just stopped in the middle of the tarmac. The captain said, 'We had a misfire,' which didn't really make it sound like the picture I saw (later) when they started popping up on Twitter. There wasn't any drama. Everyone is fine. It was more like an inconvenience, really," 

Yolanda Foster I Removed My Leaky Implants

Yolanda Foster thinks her leaky breast implants were making her preexisting medical condition debilitating, so she's had them removed from her body ... and it changed her life. 

According to our sources, the 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star had both implants removed this week. Foster says her doctors discovered one of them was leaking silicone, and they immediately realized it was exacerbating the symptoms of her Lyme disease.

Foster was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012 and her condition became so serious earlier this year, she lost the ability to read, write or even watch TV.

But doctors think Yolanda's condition will become way more manageable ... it won't cure her, but it will help keep the symptoms in check.