Chinese Woman Dies in Elevator With Power Improperly Cut Off

The discovery of a woman's corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi'an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power to the elevator a month ago without checking if anyone was inside

In a statement posted Saturday, the Gaoling district government said two maintenance workers turned off the power source on Jan. 30 to the elevator in a residential building after they were called to check on a glitch.

When a crew returned a month later, on March 1, for repairs, they found a female corpse there, the government said.

Hijackers? Aliens? Theories over Flight 370’s fate abound

SYDNEY – From a hijacking to an alien abduction, countless theories have arisen about the fate of the Malaysian airliner that disappeared nearly two years ago.

With search crews just months away from finishing their thus-far fruitless sweep of a remote stretch of seabed where Flight 370 is believed to have crashed, officials appear no closer to solving one of the most mind-boggling mysteries of modern times. That stubborn lack of resolution has only increased speculation about what might have happened to the Boeing 777 after it vanished with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014. Some believe officials are simply looking in the wrong part of the Indian Ocean, while social media sites are peppered with comments suggesting they are looking on the wrong planet: “MH370 was abducted by aliens,” reads a typical tweet.

Consultant is suspended by hospital after confronting surgeon who planned to operate in her hijab despite it being against safety regulations

A hospital has suspended a consultant after he claimed that a Muslim surgeon walked out of an operation because she was asked to remove her religious headscarf.
Dr Vladislav Rogozov, 46, claimed in an online blog that he confronted her before the surgery when he realised she planned to wear the Islamic hijab which was against safety regulations.
But the unnamed surgeon refused, walking out of the operation and forcing staff at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital to find a replacement.
She later accused Czech-born Dr Rogozov, who has worked in Britain for ten years, of racial discrimination.
After a hospital investigation supported the consultant in his enforcement of the dress code, the Muslim surgeon left the hospital.
Religious headscarfs are 'excluded in areas such as theatre, where they could present a health and cross-infection hazard', according to the strict dress code.
At the time, the incident was not made public.
But Dr Rogozov, a consultant anaesthetist, was suspended last month for revealing details of the incident, which happened in 2013, as well as other surgeons' more recent behaviour in an interview with an Internet blog.

Company director, 41, and the heavily pregnant lover he is accused of trying to stab to death in the street

Smiling side by side, this is the company director and the lover he is accused of trying to stab to death while she was heavily pregnant.
Babur Karamat Raja, 41, will face Birmingham magistrates this morning charged with two counts of attempting to murder Natalie Queiroz.
The sports-car driving businessman also faces allegations of assault, attempted child destruction and possession of a knife.

Smiling side by side, this is the company director and the lover he is accused of trying to stab to death while she was heavily pregnant.

Brave bride loses cancer battle just ten days after marrying partner of 10 years

Brave bride and New Day columnist Mo Akhtar has died from cancer just 10 days after marrying her partner of 10 years.

Mo, 32, from Bow, East London wed Farbaz, 40, in St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney on 19 March.

She started an emotional diary for publication in The New Day to chart her first days as a newly-wed, and some of the last days of her life.

Her hope was to raise awareness of lung cancer in young people and her words struck a chord with thousands.

Tragically, she passed away at home on the same day her first entry was published, last Monday.

Farbaz said: “She wanted for her thoughts and words to be read in the paper and keeping them going has been a tribute to her.”

Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani sentenced to death over $2.8 billion fraud

Following a long trial in which he was accused of fraudulently pocketing $2.8 billion, Iran's billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death, a judicial official said today March 6. The 41-year-old who is worth $13.5 billion and holds a Danish citizenship was convicted of fraud and economic crimes. 

Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie said at the press conference that apart from the death sentence, Zanjani must repay money to the state.

Zanjani became notorious during the era of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, finding ways to channel hard currency from oil sales to Tehran despite financial sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic's banks as punishment for its nuclear programme.

Radicalised French girls cause police manhunt in Paris

There is a manhunt for two radicalised French teenage girls suspected of leaving for Syria by the French Police. Over the police had tweeted a photo of the girls, Louisa and Israe, who they said were “likely using false identities and will attempt by any means possible to leave the country”.

“Her parents alerted national police that she came home around 4pm” investigators in Annecy in charge of tracking down the runaways told AFP.

The girls were last seen around 1pm on Friday, March 4th when they left their school, Carillons de Seynod High School, according to public prosecutors.