Tuesday, 9 October 2012

In a rural Texas county, an increasing number of illegal immigrants are dying before they can complete the journey to what they hoped would be a better life

October 9

MISSION, Texas -- In the freezer of a small funeral home nearly 13 miles from the Texas-Mexico border, 22 bodies are stacked on plywood shelves, one on top of the other. The bodies wrapped in white...

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‘Angels’ search for migrants’ bodies

October 9

FALFURRIAS — Miles and miles of brush filled with hidden dangers, dehydration and high temperatures line the road awaiting many undocumented immigrants who try to circumvent U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints...

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'John Doe' in '87 Arizona crash ID'd as missing teen

October 9

After nearly a quarter of a century in a pauper's grave, John Bryan Moore is going home. Moore ran away from his home in Southern California at age 16, hitchhiking cross-country to Florida. His...

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Baldia fire mystery deepens as 70 persons still missing

October 9

KARACHI, Oct 8: As the report of the Sindh government’s inquiry tribunal set up to investigate the Baldia Town factory inferno is keenly awaited, the mystery behind the deadly incident is deepening...

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Factory fire: Govt told to speed up victims’ identification

October 9

KARACHI: Finally there’s some hope for some 70 families whose beloved remain unidentified almost a month after the tragic Baldia factory fire. The Sindh High Court has told the Sindh government to...

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19 troops killed in Egypt accident

October 9

EL-ARISH, Egypt, Oct 8 AP - An Egyptian official says a troop carrier has overturned on a mountain road in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 19 members of the security forces stationed on the border...

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