By Reuters UK (Reuters) – Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party said on Saturday. “Last night Hans Modrow left us at the age of 95. With this, our party […]
By DPA Aya, the so-called “miracle baby” who was born under the rubble after this week’s devastating earthquake destroyed her home in northern Syria, was still recovering in hospital on Friday despite reports that several had come forward to adopt her. “My wife is breastfeeding little Aya,” her attending physician and hospital manager Khaled Attiyeh […]
By New York Daily News A man prosecutors call “one of New York’s finch-smuggling kingpins” got a year and a day behind bars for his last bird-trafficking bust. Insaf Ali, 62, isn’t a simple bird courier, he’s the boss, federal prosecutors said, and he refused to change his ways, despite being nabbed at Kennedy Airport […]