One person was killed and four others seriously injured when an S.V.V. being the wrong way on Manhattan's Tappan Zee Bridge crashed head-on into another vehicle, which set off a pile up at about 9 p.m. on Tuesday evening.
Indian police have arrested Meena Kumari, a head teacher of a school in the eastern Bihar state of India where 23 children died after eating food contaminated with insecticide, BBC News reported. She handed herself in on Wednesday. Police now believe she can help explain how the deadly insecticide monocrotophos ended up in the free school lunch. All total, 47 primary school children have gotten sick after consuming the meal of rice and soybeans
Early reports on Wednesday indicated that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden obtained permission to leave the transit area of a Moscow Airport, after authorities issued documents allowing him to cross the border into Russia, but his attorney Anatoly Kucherena said that he has not received all of the proper documents that would allow him to leave a Moscow airport's transit area, CNN reported. Kucherena, who helped Snowden file his bid for temporary asylum in the country on July 16, hand delivered documentation that allowed him to clear immigration at the airport.
Federal prosecutors in New York charged Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an al-Qaeda Islamist currently at large, with crimes related to an attack on a gas facility in Algeria earlier this year that left 37 hostages dead.
