New York, March 31 (DPA) A 43-year-old New York man is to receive $2.6 million as compensation for spending nearly 14 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, the New York Times reported Monday.
Olmedo Hidalgo was sentenced in 1992 to 25 years in prison for the murder of a bouncer at a New York discotheque. In 2005, after an extended legal process, he was freed after an ex-drug dealer confessed to the crime.
London, Mar 31 (ANI): A Brit man is facing divorce after his wife spotted his car parked outside another woman’s house, via Google’s Street View application.
Washington, Mar 30 (ANI): Get ready for an saucy version of Star Trek, for porn magazine Hustler is all set to turn the sci-fi series into an X-rated movie.
London, March 28 (ANI): People named Judy or Joshua are likely to be the happiest in Britain, and those called Lynn or Ben the most miserable.
This suggestion comes from Dr David Holmes, a psychologist at Manchester Metro-politan University, who believes that people’s personalities can change to fit the name they are given.
London, March 28 (ANI): A 16-year-old English girl has had 17 heart operations to save her life.
Sarah Haselgrove of Hythe, Kent, was not expected to survive seven days after she was born five weeks prematurely, and had been operated five times before she was one.
She might have spent half her life in hospital, but that has not stopped her from living a normal life.
Melbourne, Mar 27 (ANI): Dutch researchers have invented a TummyTub to give babies the feeling that they are in the womb, while they can simultaneously view their surroundings.
London, Mar 27 (ANI): The eerie image of a figure captured in a photograph at a Scottish castle is said to have left ghost experts baffled.
London, Mar 26 (ANI): Google Street View cameras have captured something that could send shivers down your spine – a ‘ghostly’ figure dressed in Victorian clothes.
London, March 26 (ANI): A three-year-old Pekingese dog’s unique brand of abstract expressionism has made it a big shot in the art world.
Ziggy, from Fallbrook, America, has been creating works of art since 2007.
New York, Mar 25 (ANI): An American lady, who tried to keep her marriage from ending, handcuffed herself to her husband while he was sleeping.