2015 ~ InfoTrove

Friday, March 27, 2015

Man falls, hangs mid-air after trousers get hooked on 6th floor air conditioning unit

A 44-year-old man was rescued by firefighters yesterday morning after he was discovered hanging from an air conditioning unit on the sixth floor of an apartment building in North Point. The man, surnamed Yuan, is believed to have jumped from his 11th floor apartment at around 10:30am, only to be saved five stories down when his trousers got caught on an air conditioning unit, reports Apple Daily. advertising The police say that Yuan has...

Co-pilot appears to have crashed Germanwings plane on purpose

A French gendarme helicopter flies over the moutainside crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, March 25, 2015. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot (Reuters) - A young German co-pilot locked himself alone in the cockpit of a Germanwings airliner and flew it into a mountain with what appears to have been the intent to destroy it, a French prosecutor said on Thursday. Investigators and grieving relatives were left struggling to explain what...

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Hong Kong man found guilty of killing and cooking parents

A Hong Kong man who was accused of killing, dismembering, salting and cooking his parents was found guilty of double murder Friday. During the 20-day trial the court heard how Henry Chau, 31, had dismembered his elderly parents before salting, cooking and packing their body parts into lunchboxes “like barbecued pork”. The severed heads of 65-year-old Chau Wing-ki and his wife Siu Yuet-yee, 62, were found in March 2013, stuffed into two refrigerators...

VIDEO: New detailed images of Germanwings A320 crash site

A plane operated by the budget carrier of Germany's Lufthansa crashed in a remote area of the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 on board in France's worst aviation disaster in decades. With the cause of the accident a complete mystery, authorities recovered a black box from the Airbus A320 at the crash site, where rescue efforts were being hampered by the mountainous terrain. Local MP Christophe Castaner, who flew over the crash site,...

Angelina Jolie has ovaries, fallopian tubes removed over cancer fears

Angelina Jolie says she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed over fears of cancer, following her double mastectomy two years ago. The actress, who has lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to the disease, said she had the procedure last week after results from a blood test raised fears that she may be in the early stages of cancer. Although later tests showed that was not the case, Jolie said she chose to go ahead with the surgery...

Germanwings Airbus crashes in French Alps, 150 dead

An Airbus operated by Lufthansa's (LHAG.DE) Germanwings budget airline crashed in a remote snowy area of the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 on board including 16 school children. Germanwings confirmed its flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf went down with 144 passengers and six crew on board. The airline believed there were 67 Germans on the flight. Spain's deputy prime minister said 45 passengers had Spanish names. One Belgian...

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

"Captain America 3" looking for Southeast Asians

Cinema Online - "Captain America 3" looking for Southeast Asians Always wanted to be in the same movie with a superhero? Marvel is opening up the opportunity for all Southeast Asians to send in their resumes and headshots for a spot in the upcoming "Captain America: Civil War" movie. According to Disney Casting Calls, the producers of Marvel are looking for both men and women, aged between 21 to 75 and of Southeast Asian descent that includes,...

ISIS hackers post names, addresses of 100 U.S. servicemen, urge sympathizers to kill them

The names, addresses and other personal details of about a hundred American military personnel were posted online by a previously unknown arm of ISIS identifying itself as the “Islamic State Hacking Division” along with a chilling message urging “lone wolf’ sympathizers in America to take violent actions against the military personnel in the hit list. A previously unknown ISIS arm identified itself as “Islamic State Hacking Division.” Photo...

Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91

SINGAPORE: Mr Lee Kuan Yew, who was Singapore’s first Prime Minister when the country gained Independence in 1965, has died on Monday (Mar 23) at the age of 91. "The Prime Minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18am. He was 91," said the PMO. Arrangements for the public to pay respects and for...

Monday, March 23, 2015

VIDEO: Rey Mysterio Jr. flying kick kills Mexican wrestler; manslaughter charge possible

In this May 27, 2010 photo, Mexican wrestler Pedro Aguayo Ramirez, known as Hijo del Perro Aguayo, poses for photographers at the start of a news conference in Mexico City. Ramirez, the son of a wrestling legend in the country, died early Saturday March 21, 2015, from a hit suffered in the ring in Tijuana, the Baja California state prosecutor's office said. (AP Photo/Enrique Ordonez) WATCH: MEXICO...

WATCH: Piranha feeding frenzy caught on camera

Like a scene right out of a Hollywood horror flick, a video published online this week shows a river in Brazil practically boiling over with feeding piranhas. The video may make swimmers everywhere (or at least in South America) recoil in horror, but piranhas are rarely dangerous to people, says Zeb Hogan, a National Geographic fellow and professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. The toothy, omnivorous fish are found throughout...

Saturday, March 21, 2015

600 Indian students expelled for cheating on school exams

Associated Press/Press Trust of India, File - CAPTION CORRECTS THE YEAR - FILE PATNA, India (AP) — About 600 high school students in eastern India have been expelled for cheating on pressure-packed 10th grade examinations this week, education authorities said Friday. The incident has received widespread attention after Indian television footage showed parents and friends of students scaling the outer walls of school buildings to pass cheat sheets...

ISIS is reportedly recruiting Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong

Photo: Oriental Daily Recruiters for ISIS, an Islamic extremist rebel group, have reportedly being targeting Hong Kong’s Indonesian helpers. A maid agency told Oriental Daily that many Indonesian domestic workers received what appeared to be recruitment leaflets for ISIS on Sunday. The pamphlet encouraged domestic workers to join ISIS, which said it would send them to “do things” in Xinjiang province, but did not specify what they would be...

Friday, March 20, 2015

Pregnant woman who answered Craigslist ad for baby clothes has foetus cut from womb

The suspect arrived at hospital with the baby and claimed she had miscarried A Colorado woman who advertised baby clothes using a Craigslist classified advert brutally beat a pregnant woman and cut her foetus from her womb, police have said. Police were called to a house in Longmont, 30 miles from Denver, at around 2:45pm. When they arrived, they could hear the victim, 26, screaming for help. Inside the property, they discovered...

Massive solar storm slams Earth

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - A geomagnetic storm that government scientists rate as severe hit the planet on Tuesday morning. The storm rated as a G4 on a NOAA scale, which tops out at G5. It's the strongest storm that's happened in the current solar cycle, which lasts about 11 years. The Space Weather Prediction Center says that the storm is from sun activity that started on March 15. Two magnetic eruptions occurred in quick succession. They combined...

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Mother tries to smuggle baby through airport security in backpack

A young mother reportedly attempted to smuggle her baby out of the Philippines in a rucksack. Authorities at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) found the two-month-old infant concealed in his 25-year-old mother’s bag on Monday evening, according to network ABS-CBN. The sleeping child was only discovered when the backpack was scanned by the X-ray machine at airport security. The mother, from Papa New Guinea, was identified as nursing...

Condition of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father, deteriorates

Singapore's former prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew pictured in 2013 at the Standard Chartered Forum in Singapore. Mr. Lee was admitted to Singapore General Hospital's intensive care unit in February. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The health of Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who has been in hospital with pneumonia since February 5, has deteriorated further, the government said Wednesday. The Prime...

BREAKING: Gunmen storm Tunisian museum, kill 2 Tunisians, 17 foreign tourists

Tunisian security forces secure the area after gunmen attacked Tunis' famed Bardo Museum on March 18, 2015. Tunisian security forces secure the area after gunmen attacked Tunis' famed Bardo Museum on March 18, 2015. Members of the Tunisian security services take up a position after gunmen reportedly took hostages near the country's parliament, outside the National Bardo Museum, Tunis, March 18, 2015. Tourists and visitors from...