Preeminent singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is facing preliminary charges by French authorities for comments he made during a 2012 Rolling Stone magazine interview in which he equated Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
The Metro-North commuter train, which was traveling 82 miles-per-hour before it derailed on a 30 -mph curve on Sunday morning killed four people and injured more than 60.
For the first time in its modern history, Icelandic police officers carried out a fatal shooting early Monday with an exchange of gunfire with a man reported to be firing at cars from his apartment window, The Los Angeles Times reported. Two cops were wounded in the shootout, which followed a 5 a.m. emergency call from neighbors
Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was sentenced to six years in a high-security prison on Tuesday for masterminding an acid attack that nearly blinded Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin, Reuters reported. Yuri Zarutsky, who admitted throwing acid in Filin's face last January, was sentenced to 10 years in prison while Andrei Lipatov, who drove Zarutsky to the ballet, was sentenced to four years.
