Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, convicted of attempting to kill US military personnel, has been sentenced to 86 years in prison. She was being interrogated by US officials in Afghanistan when she grabbed a rifle and opened fire, shouting “death to Americans”.
Prosecutors in New York called her an al-Qaeda sympathiser and sought life imprisonment. Prosecutors used notes she was carrying at the time of her arrest, which included instructions for making explosives and a list of New York City landmarks, as evidence that she was a potentially dangerous terrorist.
Siddiqui’s lawyers argued she …

Indian forces fired on protesters hurling stones at them in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, killing three people and wounding at least 17 other demonstrators, police said. For the last three months, the mostly Muslim Kashmir region has been roiled by demonstrations and clashes between protesters opposed to Indian rule and government forces. The deaths bring to 68 the number of people killed in the civil unrest.
Three people, including a 17-year-old boy, were killed when Indian forces fired live ammunition to disperse protesters in Palhalan, a village north of Srinagar, said …

Miracle of Baby Jamie, who revived after being pronounced dead. Baby Jamie and Emily were born premature, at 27 weeks, to parents Kate and David Ogg, of Australia. Baby Jamie had complications and a group of doctors worked to save him for some 20 minutes before pronouncing him dead.
After Kate was told Jamie didn’t make it, nurses placed the baby across Kate’s bare chest so Kate and David could reconcile themselves to his death.
“I wanted to meet him and to hold him and for him to know us,” Kate …