ATHENS -- A Greek man who killed two people and hijacked a busload of Japanese tourists before surrendering to a television celebrity committed suicide yesterday, police said. They said Christos Kendiras threw himself out of the seventh-floor window of the central Athens police headquarters building.The elderly Japanese tourists were released unharmed after nine hours when Kendiras gave himself up to a TV talk show host, before being handed to police.He seized the bus near the ancient...
I HAVE had hopes of Steve Bracks. I looked to him to give us a more civil and in some ways decent government. So I cheered the return of the Auditor-General's powers, the extra sitting days for parliament and the promise to rein in gambling.But there's more to do. Standards to lift in schools and hospitals. Drugs to fight.But suddenly -- whoosh! -- off charges the Bracks Government to fight a dangerous, divisive and dated ideological war. What the hell...
A BUSLOAD of elderly Japanese tourists were freed unharmed yesterday after their nine-hour hijacking ordeal ended with a Greek gunman surrendering to a television talk show host. The gunman seized a bus near the ancient site of Epidavros and took the 35 holidaymakers hostage after a family feud had ended in the death of his mother-in-law and his wife's alleged lover early yesterday morning. He had threatened to kill his prisoners - 32 Japanese tourists in their...
SRINAGAR, India -- Thirty people, including 17 separatist guerrillas, were killed in explosions and gun battles in an upsurge of violence across India's rebellion-torn Jammu and Kashmir state, officials said yesterday.Four policemen were killed and 23 injured when a bomb exploded inside a barracks at a police training school late on Friday in Baramulla district, 35 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's only Muslim majority state. Seven intruders...
Athens (dpa) - A Greek man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly assisting a teenager to commit suicide on an internet chat room site, local media reports said.The 17-year-old was found dead by family members sitting at his computer on September 10. Reports said he swallowed fertilizer after contacting the unnamed 25-year-old man on a popular Greek chat site.The teenager was reportedly advised by the man which fertilizers were lethal and where they could be purchased.Under...