Archive for July, 2007

Doctor on organ harvest charge

A San Francisco transplant surgeon is accused of speeding up the death of a patient to obtain his organs.

Death verdicts for Iran reporters

Two ethnic Kurdish dissident journalists are sentenced to death in Iran for "armed struggle against the system".

German terror trial tapes found

German journalists obtain previously unheard recordings from the trial of Red Army Faction (RAF) urban guerrillas.

Nigeria forces generals to retire

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua orders 40 generals to retire, but the government denies carrying out a purge.

Romania confronts huge meat pile

A Romanian firm is accused of illegally dumping 47 tonnes of carcasses on the outskirts of Bucharest.