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India is fast becoming the gang-rape capital of the world. A Swiss woman who was on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been gang-raped by eight men, police said today. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus outraged Indians. Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said. The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple’s mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($185). The woman, 39, was treated at a hospital in the nearby city of Gwalior, Gurjar said, adding

At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because “sugar daddies” are exploiting them, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said. He said 94,000 schoolgirls also fell pregnant in 2011, and 77,000 had abortions at state facilities, The Sowetan newspaper reports. About 10% of South Africans are living with HIV, official statistics show. Mr Motsoaledi has been widely praised for his efforts to curb the disease. South Africa has run the world’s largest anti-retroviral (ARV) programme since President Jacob Zuma appointed him health minister in 2009. The number of HIV-positive people receiving life-saving ARV drugs more than doubled from 678,500 to 1.5 million after he took office, according to official statistics. The government of former

Forbes released its annual ranking of the world’s billionaires last week, and they are $800 billion richer than they were last year. The magazine reports that 1,426 people made the cut in 2013, with 210 new names on the list. Their aggregate wealth totals $5.4 trillion, an all-time high and up from $4.6 trillion in 2012. Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim Helu and his family topped the list yet again this year, with a net worth of $73 billion. Like last year, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates was at Mr. Slim’s heels, with $67 billion in wealth. The twohave partnered to build a $25 million agricultural research center in Slim’s home country, Forbes reports. 1. Carlos Slim Helu – net worth $73 billion 2. Bill Gates – net worth $67 billion 3.

Devon Gluck, 21, knew what he had to do when an ATM gave him $1,800 that didn’t belong to him. It just took a while for him to compose himself to give it back, he said. Gluck went to a PNC Bank teller machine at the Trabant University Center at the University of Delaware on Feb. 1. He only wanted to withdraw about $40 but after the ATM made some noise, it gave him $1,800. “It was such a wild thing,” Gluck said. “It was the craziest thing that has happened to me. I had no idea how to react.” Despite urging from his friends to keep the money, Gluck, a senior studying finance, said he knew he had to return it. But he called his father the following day for confirmation. “I called him just to get that reassurance because he’s been a big influence on my

(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader’s 14-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech. The flamboyant 58-year-old leader had undergone four operations in Cuba for a cancer that was first detected in his pelvic region in mid-2011. His last surgery was on December 11 and he had not been seen in public since. “It’s a moment of deep pain,” Maduro, accompanied by senior ministers, said, his voice choking. Chavez easily won a new 6-year term at an election in October and his death will devastate millions of supporters who adored his charismatic style, anti-U.S. rhetoric and oil-financed policies that brought subsidized food and free

Tehran, the capital of Iran, has a rat problem. No, let me rephrase that: Tehran has a monster problem, and they just happen to look like rats. According to Tehran’s city council, radiation and chemicals that have been used against the rodents over many years have mutated the typically diminutive pests. The rats currently roaming the streets can weigh as much as 11lbs, and are now larger than the cats that used to prey on them. Chemicals and poisons that were once utilized to keep the pest problem in check appear to have no effect on the new, larger breed, so Iran called in the big guns – literally. After the sun sets, snipers with infra-red capabilities take up positions around the capital and begin scanning for the mutant rodents. After a night of “pest control,” the

Economists expect Nigeria, already the continent’s most populous nation and largest oil producer, to soon overtake South Africa in terms of GDP. The ever-expanding moonscape that stretches out behind a wall holding back the Atlantic Ocean here will one day host a project designed to help anchor Nigeria as Africa’s biggest economy. But if the ambitious plan to construct a new city on land reclaimed from the sea, called Eko Atlantic, represents Nigeria’s future, it is one that will be outsourced. Nearly every aspect of it will be privately run, from electricity supply to security. Economists expect Nigeria, already the continent’s most populous nation and largest oil producer, to overtake South Africa in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) over the next several years,

Ghana’s Peter Turkson is the Irish bookmakers’ favourite to replace Pope Benedict, putting a non-European in pole position to lead the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church for the first time in more than a millennium. Irish bookmaker Paddy Power offered odds of 11/4 against for Turkson, meaning successful punters would win 11 pounds for every four staked, while Britain’s second largest bookmaker Ladbrokes offered odds of 5/2 against. Turkson would be the first non-European to lead the Catholic church in more than a millennium if he is chosen to succeed Benedict. Italian Angelo Scola is second favourite according to Paddy Power at 3/1 against. “Pope Benedict quitting leaves a tall hat to fill – let’s just hope God gives him a good reference for his next

Malian forces have arrested eight suspected al-Qaeda-linked fighters in northern Mali. Their capture comes as French fighter jets targeted rebel hideouts and fuel depots in the northeastern desert on Tuesday, near the Algerian border. The eight suspects captured in Gao are expected to be transferred to Bamako where they will eventually stand trial. They include six Malians, a Nigerian and an Algerian man. Meanwhile, delegations from the African Union, United Nations, European Union, West African regional body ECOWAS, banks and aid groups have been meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the country’s future. In-depth coverage of intensifying confrontation in north After a three-week military campaign by French-led forces drove the rebels from most of their strongholds, including the

By Luck Gold & Samuel Burke, CNN While American waited 35 minutes for the Super Bowl’s lights to come on, Nigerians just chuckled. They know all too well the problem of power outages: Nigeria has been plagued by rolling blackouts that last hours, sometimes even days. So as the television audience worldwide waited for the power to come back on, Nigerians took to social media with wit. “Power outage at the Super Bowl on Sunday. Suddenly, Nigeria doesn’t look as dark anymore,” tweeted one Nigerian. “If they had the Super Bowl in Nigeria, the power coming back on would be the real surprise,” another tweeted. Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, recently told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that his country’s electrical woes have been improving. “That is one

After over three decades in public service, Hilary Clinton has gracefully bowed out. The 65 year old former US First Lady stepped down as Secretary of State at the US State Department today after four years. Senator John Kerry succeeds her. Hilary battled ill health in the last few months. From a nasty stomach virus, to exhaustion, severe dehydration, fall and a concussion that led to brief hospitalization when doctors discovered a blood clot near her brain. Over the past 30 years, Hilary has served as the first lady of a state – Arkansas, the first lady of the country, a senator and Secretary of state. She was the first wife of a U.S. president to serve in a presidential cabinet and she traveled to more countries than any other secretary of state before her.112 countries Related posts: This

It’s alleged she was accosted by six men who overpowered her husband when he tried to intervene and gang raped her in front of him. The 25-year-old woman from Dantiamuha village had gone to the hospital in Mayurbhanj, in Baripada, on Sunday with her husband to visit her sick brother. Six men were later arrested and sent for medical examinations, reported DNA India. Protesters demanded the men be tried in India’s new fast track courts that deal specifically with crimes of a sexual nature, set up in the wake of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old on a Delhi bus on December 16. The five accused of the attack started their trial today within a courtroom closed to the public and media. They face a maximum sentence of death by hanging if convicted. It comes as a government panel