International Business News - Killed http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A Dutch man, his son and two daughters fell to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak, Italian rescuers said. The climbers, connected by rope, plunged 1,600 feet down a slope of rock, ice and snow while the children's mother watched from below, said Oscar Tajola, head of the mountain rescue corps in the nearby town of Courmayeur. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/4-dutch-climbers-killed-near-mont-blanc.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:59:28 EDT A German woman was charged Wednesday with bludgeoning two toddlers to death with a hammer and seriously injuring their mother in a rampage in Sweden spurred by jealousy over an ex-boyfriend. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/woman-charged-in-sweden-with-murdering-toddlers.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:56:55 EDT After much legal wrangling, lawsuits against military contractors over deadly ambushes that killed civilian truck drivers in Iraq could go to trial next year, a federal judge said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/suits-over-drivers-deaths-could-be-tried-in-2009.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:22:45 EDT A newborn baby girl died after being thrown from a third-story window in the Polish capital, apparently by a drunken relative, police said Tuesday. The baby was found Monday night, with the umbilical cord still attached, on the sidewalk beneath her family's apartment block in Warsaw's gritty Praga district, police spokeswoman Monika Brodowska said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/polish-newborn-dies-after-being-thrown-from-window.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:17:13 EDT A man who fatally shot a sheriff's deputy Tuesday had been ordered by a court to undergo a mental evaluation and had twice left a hospital before barricading himself in a home and triggering a shootout with police, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/95930-deputy-killed.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/fla-sheriffs-deputy-shot-dead-in-stand-off.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/fla-sheriffs-deputy-shot-dead-in-stand-off.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:54:08 EDT Gunmen killed a Kurdish journalist near the northern city of Kirkuk, a police official said Tuesday. Soran Mama Hama, a reporter for the Kurdish-language magazine Leven, was shot late Monday in the Rasheed Awa village, where many Kurds were forced to relocate when Saddam Hussein sent thousands of Arabs into the oil-rich Kirkuk area to dilute the presence of Kurds and others. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/kurdish-journalist-killed-in-iraq.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:45:05 EDT Two private security contractors died in a car bombing in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military in Iraq said Monday. Local officials said the contractors were Iraqi Kurds. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/iraq-car-bomb-kills-2-contractors-in-mosul.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:53:19 EDT A judge has ordered information from search warrants sealed in the investigation into the slaying of a North Carolina mother whose body was found near her suburban home. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/judge-seals-warrants-in-case-of-slain-nc-mother.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:51:13 EDT Authorities say a skydiver was killed when she walked into a spinning aircraft propeller at an airfield in Estonia. The incident happened as a group of skydivers were boarding the turboprop plane in the western town of Rapla. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/estonian-skydiver-killed-by-rotating-propeller.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:03:39 EDT Hoping to prick someone's conscience in the unsolved murders of two young girls, authorities on Monday released a 911 recording in which the grandmother of one victim screams in agony, "My babies, babies, babies!" http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94985-girls-killed.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/911-call-released-in-killings-of-2-okla-girls.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/911-call-released-in-killings-of-2-okla-girls.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:28:30 EDT Militants fired on security forces patrolling a restive area in southwestern Pakistan, triggering fierce fighting that left six troops and an unknown number of insurgents dead, the military said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/6-pakistani-troops-killed-in-southwest.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:01:19 EDT The parents of a North Carolina mother found slain near her home tearfully asked Friday for the culprit to show "a shred of decency" by confessing, while her husband's attorney said he's an innocent man who wants to grieve in private. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/93986-jogger-killed.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/family-of-slain-nc-woman-plan-return-to-canada.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/family-of-slain-nc-woman-plan-return-to-canada.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:48:50 EDT An attorney for the husband of a North Carolina woman found slain near her suburban home says he has cooperated with police and would like to grieve for her in private. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/attorney-husband-grieving-for-slain-wife-in-nc.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:43:26 EDT The parents of a North Carolina mother found slain near her home tearfully asked Friday for the culprit to show "a shred of decency" by confessing, while her husband's attorney said he's an innocent man who wants to grieve in private. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/slain-nc-womans-family-ask-killer-to-come-forward.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:28:25 EDT The family of a North Carolina woman found slain at a construction site earlier this week was granted temporary custody of her two young daughters from her husband after filing an emergency petition. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/family-of-slain-nc-jogger-gets-custody-of-children.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:35:19 EDT A former U.S. Army Ranger from Maryland has been sentenced to 35 years in prison in the shooting death of a fellow Ranger he served with in Afghanistan. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/ex-ranger-gets-35-years-in-fellow-rangers-slaying.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:27:34 EDT A Los Angeles man has pleaded not guilty to murdering his two children by setting fire to an SUV with the kids inside. Dae Kwon Yun entered the plea Wednesday to two counts of murder with special circumstances. Prosecutors haven't decided whether to seek the death penalty. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/la-man-pleads-not-guilty-in-kids-suv-fire-deaths.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:05:05 EDT A jury has convicted a Kentucky man of fatally shooting the small-town police chief who was taking him to jail in his squad car. Jurors found 38-year-old Jamie Barnett guilty Wednesday of wanton murder in the June 2007 death of Clay City Police Chief Randy Lacy. The maximum penalty for the charge is life in prison with the possibility of parole. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/jury-finds-ky-man-guilty-of-killing-police-chief.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:56:40 EDT A journalist working for a pro-opposition Cambodian newspaper was killed along with his son in a drive-by shooting in the capital, police said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/cambodian-journalist-gunned-down.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:10:55 EDT Police say a registered sex offender from Georgia confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl whose body was discovered by a maid in a hotel room. Mathew Caylor, 33, told investigators late Thursday that he had killed Melinda Denise Hinson, Police Capt. Robert Colbert said Friday. Her body was found Thursday in a room registered to Caylor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/police-georgia-sex-offender-killed-florida-teen.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:07:38 EDT