Mohamed Siruhan

A convicted killer will finally get his wish today when he is executed for shooting dead his girlfriend. Donnie Lee Roberts was headed to the Texas death chamber at 6pm Halloween night for fatally shooting Vicki Bowen and stealing from her East Texas home to finance his drug habit nine years ago. During his trial the jury were shown a videotaped confession in which he said: 'I want the death penalty'. The 41-year-old had dropped out of a Louisiana drug treatment program, violating his probation for a robbery conviction, when he was charged with killing 44-year-old Vicki Bowen. Authorities said she was shot for refusing Roberts' demand for money. Her slain body was found by a colleague when she failed to show up at work. She lay covered with a blanket, face down in a pool of blood, having been shot twice in the head. Roberts was arrested at a drug house in Livingston, about 75 miles northeast of Houston, when a truck he stole from Bowen's home near Livingston was spott...

A young British tourist is recovering in a Thai hospital after being repeatedly stabbed by a mob as he tried to save his girlfriend from a pack sex attack. Jack Cole, 21, from Bath was stabbed in the face and body after the laughing youths grabbed his 21-year-old girlfriend April Clifton as they enjoyed a romantic stroll towards a boat pier in Ao Nang, in southern Thailand. After jumping to April's defence Jack was left to die in a pool of blood as the armed thugs fled. Read more

One man has discovered first hand the old adage that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - when his girlfriend woke him up in bed after an argument by biting straight through his scrotum. Tearing through the skin with her vicious bite, Linda Mendez, 40, was aggrieved after her 46-year-old unnamed boyfriend went to sleep before she had finished arguing with him. Walking to their bedroom at around 11.30 p.m. on Thursday, Mendez is said to have woken her sleeping partner by biting his scrotum and neck causing serious bleeding. Read more

A mother who killed her nine-year-old son by setting him on fire as punishment for smoking has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Noluthando Nomavayi , 37, from Delft in Cape Town drenched her two sons with paraffin and set them alight when she discovered them smoking cigarettes in May 2011. Read more

An ‘evil’ Nigerian people smuggler who used witchcraft rituals to force terrified children to work as sex slaves has been convicted of trafficking and rape. Young victims were raped, sexually abused and subjected to voodoo-style rituals once in the clutches of the trafficking ring. One girl had hair cut from her armpits by a man wearing feathers. Others were slashed with knives, forced to drink foul-smelling potions and had blood taken with syringes to ‘cast a spell’ over them. The girls were told they would die or never bear children if they tried to escape or revealed what had happened to them. The man responsible, Osezua Osolase, 42, was on the surface a recycling worker living in a terraced house in Gravesend, Kent. But he was in fact the British linchpin of a multi-million pound global child sex trafficking ring that used medieval ‘juju’ black magic to control its victims. His home was a secret staging post for vulnerable teenage orphans as they were smuggled from Africa to sever...

It's an adorable game parents have played with their young children for generations. But now researchers are looking for a scientific answer to explain why children think they actually disappear when they cover their eyes while playing peekaboo. Researchers led by James Russell at the University of Cambridge have carried out the first study into this bizarre trait with groups of three and four-year-old children. The children's eyes were covered with masks and they were then asked whether they could be seen by the researchers - with most saying no. Many also believed that the researchers could not see adults who were wearing eye masks - leading to the conclusion most young children believe that anyone who covers their eyes is obscured from other people's view. The researchers then attempted to distinguish what exactly creates the feeling of invisibility - whether it was not being able to see at all or just because the other person couldn't see their eyes .Read more

Japanese scientists have found a way to decipher dreams for the very first time. Their report shows that patterns of activity in certain visual parts of the brain are the same whether we are awake or dreaming. Researchers from ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, scanned three male volunteers' brains in an exhausting test over several days to examine how activity could be related to their dreams. Read more

When teenager Nawal Khasal came home to find a burglar stealing her family’s valuables, she instinctively knew what to do. Grabbing a cricket bat from the porch, she knocked him for six. The blow floored Derek Perry, 47, who fled the property with blood pouring from his mouth. But gutsy Miss Khasal was determined not to let the thief get away and chased him into a nearby cul-de-sac. Read more

It started with the Ridiculously Photogenic Guy, snapped as he ran down the streets of South Carolina during a 10km race. Then there was the Ridiculously photogenic surgery girl and the Ridiculously Photogenic Puppy. Now there is another name joining the internet sensation: the Ridiculously Photogenic Homeless Guy. 30-year-old Rafael Nunes has become the latest face to go viral after he was spotted by a tourist in the Brazilian town of Curitiba. Read more

Three-quarters of teachers believe easy access to hardcore pornography through mobile phones and the internet is ‘damaging’ their pupils. Girls as young as 11 are dressing like ‘inflatable plastic dolls’ while young boys are developing ‘almost pathological’ attitudes to sex as a result, according to research. Some boys even admit to being unable to get to sleep without first viewing pornography while others are obsessed with getting a perfect body shape. Read more

American amateur boxing has been flung into turmoil after the former chief of the sport said all female fighters had to be either child abuse victims or gay. In an interview with The New Yorker magazine over the summer, Hal Adonis, then president of Boxing USA, declared that being abused in early life provides the perfect foundations for a successful boxing career. During the rant, he made a series of extraordinary claims about women's amateur boxing, including the words: 'Half of our girls have been molested, half of our girls are gay.' He also told the magazine: 'When kids call me up, I say: "Let me ask you an honest question: have your parents ever hit you?" If they say no, I say: "I don't think you belong in boxing."' The comments sent shockwaves around the American boxing community forcing the International Boxing Association (AIBA) to step in to demand his immediate dismissal. Read more

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has rejected criticism of the imprisonment of the female punk band Pussy Riot by claiming 'they would be at home doing housework if they had not broken the law'. Speaking to a group of foreign Russian experts, Putin said the bands three members deserved their fate because they threatened the moral foundations of Russia. During the two-hour dinner, the president, now in his 13th year running Russia, became animated only when asked about the band. According to The Independent, Putin said: 'Whether the sentence was too much or too little is not for me to judge,' he said. 'That is a matter for the court.' Read more

Claustrophobics look away now - these pictures reveal the cramped living quarters inside what is believed to be the world's narrowest building. Said to measure just 36 inches across at its narrowest point, this tiny home is wedged into the gap between two buildings in Warsaw, Poland. Definitely not designed with family life in mind, Keret House is barely big enough for one person to inch their way from the single bed, through the miniscule kitchen and into the tiny toilet. Read More

A teacher who rubbed garlic on his hands before wiping it on pupils he had chased has been banned from the profession for four years. Frank White, 61, threw a piece of wood across a classroom, struck pupils with wood or his hands, shouted aggressively and swore repeatedly, a professional conduct panel of the Teaching Agency was told. Mr White was also accused of making a racist comment and eating raw garlic to deliberately disgust his colleagues during staff meetings. Read more

A two-year-old Syrian boy has been reunited with his family in Cyprus after they accidentally left him behind as they fled shelling in Damascus in the summer. Bushr Al Tawashi's parents thought their son had died when their house was bombed, but he was found in the rubble of his family home by rebel fighters. The toddler was taken care of by family friends and after a long legal process his father was able to reunite with his son in Lebanon and take him to Cyprus. Read more

A young British tourist has told of the moment he was repeatedly stabbed by a gang of youths as he tried to save his girlfriend from a pack sex attack in Thailand. Jack Cole and April Clifton, both 21 from Bath, were enjoying a romantic stroll towards a boat pier in Ao Nang, in southern Thailand, when the motorcycle gang pounced from nearby shadows. The laughing thugs grabbed April, clawing at her clothes, before Jack jumped to her defence. But the armed youths then turned on him, puncturing his face and body with a flurry of stabs, before they fled into the night leaving Jack to die in a pool of blood. Luckily a passing British tourist heard Jack's cries for help and called paramedics to the idyllic beach resort. 'It was a calculated attack,' Jack said from the Bangkok-Phuket hospital today. 'They drove past us several times checking us out. We thought they had gone but they came out of the shadows and attacked April.' 'They laughed as they grabbed April as a ...

The mother of CNBC executive Kevin Krim said that the young family treated their children’s nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, as they would one of their own. Mr and Mrs Krim ‘bent over backwards’ to help Ortega, going so far as to purchase plane tickets for her so she could fly back to her native Dominican Republic, Karen Kim said. The grieving grandmother added that the horrific murders of her grandchildren, six-year-old Lucia and two-year-old Leo last night, are taking a heavy toll on her family. She speculated that Ortega must have 'went insane' to allegedly commit such a heinous crime. Read More

A mother-of-three who drank enough to 'knock out a bull elephant' faces jail after molesting two schoolboys at a friend’s 50th birthday party. Amanda Wheeler, 31, kissed and groped a 12-year-old boy on a bench, rubbed her breasts against teenagers she was dancing with at the party and performed sex acts on two boys in a bedroom. Worcester Crown Court heard the part-time cleaner had been drinking vodka, beer and wine throughout the evening. A jury found Wheeler, from Barbourne in Worcester, guilty of four counts of sexual activity with a child and one of sexual assault. She was acquitted of a sixth charge of sexual activity with a child, the maximum sentence for which is 14 years in prison. Judge Patrick Thomas QC granted her bail while pre-sentence and psychological reports were prepared. Read more

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But for one man from northern China, this was not the case. Earlier this year, Jian Feng, divorced and sued his wife for being ugly. He won his case and was awarded a little under £75,000 by the judge, Fox 31 reported. Mr Feng said he took issue with his wife’s looks only after the couple’s daughter was born. Read More

No doubt they are well-meaning people: liberal, well-educated, proud to be open-minded. The men and women who have created Respect Yourself - a new sex education website for teenagers - certainly have a mission to explain. Nothing, not even the grossest sexual practice, is beyond the pale, even though the site is designed for teenagers as young as 13 and will certainly be viewed by children much younger. Funded by the NHS (to the tune of £24,000) and the European Union (£32,000), these educators have no problem in getting down and dirty in order to tell it like it is. Read more

Nestled in the Highlands a mile from any other building is paedophile Jimmy Savile's Scottish hideaway, and these pictures show the chilling scene inside the cottage where he may have abused more than 20 people. The remote white-washed property outside the village of Glencoe has been untouched since the pervert died last year and now police have raided it hunting for evidence of his crimes. Frozen in time, his hairbrush, documents, ashtray and even his food are shown scattered around the empty home just as he left them. Read more

A Brazilian student is set to sell her virginity for a staggering $780,000 after she put it up for auction online. A man called Natsu, from Japan, fended off strong competition from American bidders Jack Miller and Jack Right, and Indian big-spender Rudra Chatterjee, to secure a date with 20-year-old Catarina Migliorini. The auction closed this morning, and the physical education student - who said she will use the cash to build homes for poverty-stricken families - was the subject of 15 bids. Read more

The French interior minister has been accused of ordering police to remove tramps and gypsies from his neighbourhood 'so his wife can shop in peace'. Manuel Valls, 50, reportedly told officers to show 'zero tolerance' in evicting homeless people from the stylish district around the Place de la Bastille near his home in Paris. According to a satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaîné, Mr Valls ordered the clean-up at the request of his glamorous wife, Anne Gravoin, after she allegedly complained of being accosted by a drunken down-and-out on a trip to supermarket. Read more

An assault victim thought he was Barack Obama after an infected bite mark on his cheek caused him to hallucinate and develop 'God-like delusions'. Tatenda Kamasho, 19, was stabbed and bitten on the cheek by Jordace Sinclair, 18, while waiting in a queue at McDonald’s in The Drapery, Northampton. The assault wound on Mr Kamasho’s cheek turned septic, causing him to fall into psychosis. He began suffering hallucinations and developed a God complex. Read more

French judicial police are preparing to arrest a paparazzi linked to topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, it emerged tonight. It follows confirmation that the name of the photographer had been handed over to detectives investigating the alleged crime. It took place in September at Chateau d’Autet, a holiday retreat in Provence owned by the Queen’s nephew, Viscount Linley. Read More

Children as young as 11 are becoming addicted to internet pornography giving them 'unrealistic expectations' of sex, according to new research. It is now 'common practice' for schoolchildren to access hard core pornography at an early age and become desensitised to sexual images. A study, published by Plymouth University, said that more children are finding themselves 'hooked' on internet porn before they become sexually active, leading to problems in later life. The news comes as a teaching union said yesterday that children as young as ten should learn about pornography as part of the national curriculum. The National Association of Headteachers said primary school teachers needed to respond to the fact that children were now getting a large amount of their information about sex from the internet. They said sex education guidelines are hopelessly out of date and cannot cope with the ‘overtly sexualised world’ in which children are now growing up. But many fami...

Her conversion from Ibiza party girl to hijab-wearing Muslim in barely three months may well raise a few eyebrows – and she admits that her friends probably think it’s another one of her fads. But trainee teacher Heather Matthews, 27, says Islam has brought her ‘love and happiness’ that she never found in her old ‘shallow’ lifestyle. Mrs Matthews, a mother of two, converted to the faith four weeks ago – two months after returning from a holiday in Ibiza. And she says that the photographs of the ‘old her’ taken on that trip show all that is wrong with Western images of beauty. She said: ‘I thought I needed to act and dress in a certain way to feel good about myself. I see girls now and think about what image they are portraying to other people, especially men. ‘It is about self-respect. If you dress and act in a certain way, rightly or wrongly, you’ll be treated in a certain way. ‘Islam has taught me about real love, not false passion and lust. I can even see the logic in arranged marr...

These revealing pictures illustrate America's prison system at breaking point - with overcrowding in the nation's jails at its highest for eight years. Correctional institutions across the U.S are bursting at the seams with more than two million Americans behind bars. The worst hit state, California, houses 140,000 inmates when its 33 adult prisons are only designed to hold a maximum of 80,000. Overall, the Bureau of Prisons Network is around 39 per cent over 'rated capacity' - their highest level since 2004 - with that figure expected to soar to 45 per cent above its limit by 2018. Read More

A mother in North Texas has been awarded a Guinness World Record for donating breast milk. Alicia Richman, 28, from Granbury, pumped over 86 gallons between June 2011 and March 2012 for donation to The Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas, a nonprofit that supplies neonatal intensive care units. The vast quantity equates to 11,000oz - to put it into context, a typical newborn's feed is around 3oz. She told CBS DFW: 'I pumped at work, on vacations, in the car. And I never had to buy formula.' Mrs Richman began donating shortly after giving birth to her son, now 19 months, when she found that she had managed to fill two freezers with pumped milk - far more than he would ever need. She decided to put her extraordinary ability to good use and help premature and critically ill babies who could benefit from the nourishment human breast milk can provide over formula. 'I feel like God blessed me with plenty of milk and I need to do something special with it,' she said. 'Th...

A compass pointing the way to Mecca is embedded in a new MasterCard aimed at Muslims. Gulf state-owned bank Al Hillal in the United Arab Emirates has rolled out the new bank card which complies with Islamic laws banning charging interest on loans in a bid to appeal to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. Islamic law or Shariah forbids ‘riba’, the charging of interest on loans, because it enables the rich to exploit the poor, creates social and economic tension and encourages risk, according to scholars. Read more : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217105/Muslim-MasterCard-Compass-pointing-Mecca-embedded-new-bank-card.html#ixzz29Ed3aKbM Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

The Nobel Peace Prize is the sacred elephant of the liberal establishment. It is sometimes awarded to good people who have done great things, but equally often to unworthy recipients as a gesture of pious hope. The world applauded when it was presented to Martin Luther King in 1964, to Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, to Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk two years later. Sensible people sighed when the prize went to Henry Kissinger and Viet Cong leader Le Duc Tho in 1973, who stitched up a charade of a Vietnam peace deal as a figleaf for surrendering the country to the Communists; to Egypt’s leader Anwar Sadat and his Israeli counterpart Menachem Begin in 1978 for their Middle East deal which brought no lasting peace; and to Barack Obama in 2009 for his commitment to ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which are still mired in bloodshed. Read more : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217013/As-protesters-dressed-Nazis-riot-Athens-ruled-Brussels-stooges-giving-Nobel...

At first glance it's your average baby doll, diaper clad and equipped with various bottles of 'milk'. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed youngster looks life-life enough, her mouth upturned in an open-lipped smile, her puffy elbows and knees typical of a newborn. But on closer inspection she is way more than just a doll, she is the freakish creation of a horror-show design project, developed by UK-based artist Darren Cullen, who goes by the name of 'sexyoffender'. Read mor e: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217123/Would-buy-daughter-Artist-creates-disturbing-PREGNANT-BABY-doll-complete-pregnant-foetus-dont-worry-wont-hitting-shops.html#ixzz29Ec6sKVq Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

If you were ever caught reading in low light, or using a torch under the bedcovers to read after lights-out, your parents might well have warned you that straining your eyes would damage your eyesight. Or perhaps you used to hear that it’s easy to spot the studious children at school because they were the ones who had spent so long with their head in a book that they had to wear glasses. Whatever you heard, the warning that people shouldn’t read regularly in dim light is a familiar one. Carry out a quick internet search, though, and you’ll discover that this is apparently a myth. End of story? Not quite. When you dig a little deeper and look at the scientific evidence, the story becomes much more complex. Let’s look at the basics first. Short-sightedness or myopia means that a person can easily see things that are close up, but objects in the distance such as the number on a bus or the menu board in a restaurant look blurry. Wearing glasses or contact lenses solves the problem, but i...