The lawyer for Pengo Bossio Wangi, the one person killed during the attack, told French media the move to place the suspect under observation was “very rare”. He alleged that it was being used to portray the suspect as criminally irresponsible rather than having acted deliberately. Wangi, a 26-year-old French-Congolese martial artist, was named as
One person has been killed and four others injured in a Parisian suburb, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has said. The “very serious events” happened in Trappes, to the west of Paris, Lecornu wrote on social media, adding that the suspected attack had been “apprehended and placed in police custody”. A police source said a
Police in South Africa say that they have found a woman’s body in a Johannesburg suburb, the tenth in recent months. The body was found on Saturday morning and identified by the friend with whom she had been at a bar the previous evening. The local police commissioner said his force could not rule out
Two-thousand years ago, a Roman author and lawyer named Pliny the Younger wrote an account of one of the most destructive disasters in human history. He chronicled Mount Vesuvius’ eruption and the subsequent burial of Pompeii, which killed his uncle Pliny the Elder and about 2,000 others. The detail in Pliny the Younger’s account and
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Morgan S., a 37-year-old strategy senior manager in Houston. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’m from Houston, and I love it. My monthly take-home pay from my corporate job is just under $10,000 after taxes. I feel very financially secure here and ahead of
