Bill Cosby sues eighth accuser — model Beverly Johnson (VIDEO) |
- Bill Cosby sues eighth accuser — model Beverly Johnson (VIDEO)
- Football star among 140 to stand trial in Italy for mafia links
- ‘The Man in the High Castle’ is Amazon’s biggest hit to date
- Reuters Video: Bill Cosby sues model Beverly Johnson for defamation
- 23 years later, Bosnia identifies three young sisters from massacre
- Lions XII star Safuwan Baharuddin joins PDRM
| Bill Cosby sues eighth accuser — model Beverly Johnson (VIDEO) Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:57 PM PST LOS ANGELES, Dec 22 — Comedian Bill Cosby is suing Beverly Johnson, saying the model defamed him by accusing him of sexual assault in his home. Johnson is among more than 50 women to come forward in the past year with claims that Cosby drugged, and in numerous cases, sexually assaulted them — in incidents dating back decades. She's the eighth accuser Cosby has filed suit against this month. According to court documents filed in LA Superior Court, Cosby's suit says he never spent time alone with Johnson at his home. It charges Johnson with intentionally inflicting emotional distress and asks for an injunction requiring Johnson to retract her public statements AND remove a chapter on him from her memoir. Cosby's also demanding a jury trial. The comedian — best known for his role in the 1980s sitcom "The Cosby Show" — has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has never been criminally charged. Many of the alleged incidents occurred decades ago and so the statute of limitations for prosecuting them expired long ago. — Reuters  |
| Football star among 140 to stand trial in Italy for mafia links Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:54 PM PST
The court in the northern city of Bologna indicted the defendants on charges of aiding, or being members of, the 'Ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful organised crime network. The 'Ndrangheta, based in Calabria in the southwestern tip of the Italian mainland, has grown steadily in the last 10 years due to its role in smuggling cocaine and other drugs into Europe from South America. Vincenzo Iaquinta, a former striker for Juventus and Italy who comes from Calabria, was indicted for illegal possession of firearms, aggravated by intention to help the 'Ndrangheta. His father Giuseppe, a businessman, was indicted on the more serious charge of mafia association, said Carlo Taormina, the lawyer for both of them. Most of the defendants are accused of involvement in the 'Ndrangheta's activities in the Emilia-Romagna region around Bologna. The first hearing in the trial will be on March 23, 2016, Taormina said. — Reuters |
| ‘The Man in the High Castle’ is Amazon’s biggest hit to date Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:50 PM PST
LOS ANGELES, Dec 22 — More people around the world have streamed the drama, based on Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel, than any other in-house series on Amazon Prime. Adapted for the screen and developed by Frank Spotnitz in association with Ridley Scott and David Zucker, "The Man in the High Castle" imagines a dystopian alternative present where the Axis powers, rather than the Allies were victorious in World War II. News that the drama has become the online retailer's most successful to date follows the announcement on Friday that the show, starring Luke Kleinkank, Rufus Sewell and DJ Qualls has been renewed for a second season. "We're very proud of this outstanding series created by Frank Spotnitz, Scott Free and Isa Dick Hackett, which Amazon customers around the world have enthusiastically embraced, and we look forward to the second season," said Roy Price, Vice President of Amazon Studios. "We hoped that once again bringing together the work of Philip K. Dick and the vision of Ridley Scott - who brought us the classic film Blade Runner - would help deliver on our promise of creating some of the best television in the world for Prime customers, and we believe that it has." Season one is currently available to Amazon Prime members in HD and UHD 4K in the US, the UK, Germany and Austria.— AFP-Relaxnews |
| Reuters Video: Bill Cosby sues model Beverly Johnson for defamation Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:49 PM PST Duration: 01:06, Published 22 Dec 2015 Bill Cosby sues model Beverly Johnson, saying she defamed him by accusing him of drugging her — bringing to eight the number of his accusers the comedian has filed suit against in the past month. — Reuters |
| 23 years later, Bosnia identifies three young sisters from massacre Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:44 PM PST
SARAJEVO, Dec 22 — The Roma girls were aged just three, five and seven when Serb paramilitaries gunned them down in wartime Bosnia, along with their pregnant mother, their father and four other young siblings. More than 23 years after their deaths — and 12 years after their bones and clothes were found in a mass grave in eastern Bosnia — forensic experts yesterday identified them as sisters from the Ribic family. They and their relatives were rounded up and massacred by a Serb paramilitary unit on July 12, 1992, near their village of Skocic in the Zvornik area of the country's east. Buried nearby in a mass grave at Crni Vrh, their remains were left undiscovered until 2003, a spokeswoman for the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, Lejla Cengic, told AFP. The skeleton of a fourth sister was found, but her identity could not be confirmed from DNA testing, Cengic said. "The skeletons of the parents, found in the same mass grave, were identified earlier, while the remains of three other children are still being looked for," she said. The youngsters were among the 3,400 children killed in Bosnia's inter-ethnic war from 1992 to 1995, which claimed the lives of around 100,000 people in total. Many of their bodies are still missing, and life in Bosnia continues to be punctuated by the discovery of mass graves. It is 20 years this month since a peace deal was signed bringing an end to the conflict, which pitted Bosnia's Muslims and ethnic Croats, who wanted independence from Yugoslavia, against Bosnian Serbs, armed by the Belgrade-controlled federal Yugoslav army. The Ribic family were among 27 ethnic Romas from the Zvornik area who were killed by the Serb paramilitary force, which turned on the ethnic group after Muslims were expelled from the area. A Belgrade court jailed seven members of the unit in 2013 with prison terms ranging from two to 20 years for war crimes against civilians. But the verdict was annulled by the Appeals Court, and in a retrial earlier this year they were acquitted due to "lack of evidence". The original indictment said one of the Ribic sisters, aged 13, had been raped before her execution. There was only one survivor from the Ribic family, a brother Zijo who is now aged 31 and is yet to have any closure over the killings. "He will see the remains and clothes (of the fourth sister) to try and help forensics complete this identification," Cengic said. — AFP |
| Lions XII star Safuwan Baharuddin joins PDRM Posted: 21 Dec 2015 04:44 PM PST
Safuwan, who scored 10 goals for the Lions XII from 2012 to 2015, would be together with Johor Darul Ta'zim II (JDT II) players Andrezinho, Dramane Traore of Mali, and Maldive national team captain Ali Ashfaq to complete the quota of four import players. PDRM chief coach Mohd Fauzi Pilus confirmed that Safuwan could play in defence and midfield. "Following this, we are forced to drop two other import players, namely Mohamadou Sumareh (Gambia) and Jaime Braganca (Timor Leste), to meet the import player quota," he said. Several newspapers in Singapore recently reported that Safuwan had held negotiations with PDRM but needed to have a release from FAS first as he still had a one-year contract to complete. PDRM, prior to this, managed to grab the service of former JDT II player, Andrezinho, to strengthen The Cops squad to face the 2016 Liga-M competition. Safuwan, 24, who had been on loan for three months with Australian League Club, Melbourne City, early this year was said to be targeted by PDRM following his excellent performance when representing Lions XII in the Liga-M competition this season. For the record, PDRM finished their campaign in the Super League in sixth spot other than losing in the early round of the FA and Malaysia Cups. The 2015 M-League was Lions XII's last appearance in the local football scene after the Football Association of Malaysia did not extend the memorandum of understanding signed with FAS in 2011. — Bernama |
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