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Love Prevails as Hindu Hard-Liners Protest Valentine's Day in India

NEW DELHI – India’s Hindu hard-liners are showing no love for Valentine’s Day. A few dozen protesters briefly blocked a road in downtown New Delhi on Wednesday, burning Valentine’s Day cards and chanting “Down with Valentine.” In the nearby city of Lucknow, extremists threatened to beat up couples found celebrating …

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N.Y. Mom Accused in Kids' Bathtub Drownings Ordered Held Without Bail

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A woman handcuffed to her hospital bed stared blankly into space as her lawyer entered a plea of not guilty to charges that she murdered her three young children by drowning them in the bathtub. Leatrice Brewer, her eyes puffy as though she had been crying, …

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Protesters Return to the Streets of Serbia; U.N. Police on Alert

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo – Up to 2,000 Serb protesters chanting “Kosovo is Serbia!” marched Saturday through the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica in a sixth day of demonstrations against Kosovo’s independence. U.N. police in riot gear formed a cordon across the main bridge separating the tense northern Kosovo town’s …

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