CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — A judge in the US state of Minnesota sentenced a YouTube prankster to six months in prison Wednesday for fatally shooting her boyfriend in a botched video stunt they hoped would go viral. Monalisa Perez, a 20-year-old mother of two children, believed her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz would be shielded by a thick book as she shot him at close range last June in front of onlookers. Ruiz, 22, died at […]
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Police mull manslaughter charges over London blaze
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Manslaughter charges could be filed over London’s deadly tower blaze, police said Friday after finding that exterior cladding on the building had failed safety tests and that the fire started with a faulty fridge. The government ordered immediate checks on the Hotpoint FF175BP fridge freezer model blamed for the June 14 blaze in west London, which left 79 people presumed dead. Hotpoint-branded fridge freezers were manufactured by Indesit between 2006 […]





