Teen sneaks to Mideast to meet MySpace pal

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to see a man she met on MySpace.com was detained in Jordan and was headed home Friday, an FBI spokesman said. [read more]

Mass killer atones for his sins

Sharma says he committed 16 murders [Photos: Prashant Ravi]

Shyam Narayan Sharma is a bedraggled man noticeable for his garland of old shoes and for wearing sandals and clothes made out of torn jute bags.

He confesses to having murdered 16 people over the years.

He wears his filthy attire around his village in the Indian state of Bihar as a way of atoning for his criminal past.

Sharma, better known now as Dayasagar (Ocean of Pity), has been out on bail for the past two years.

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Candidate Brahmeshwar Singh says he is a victim of a corrupt state

Take Mohammad Shahabuddin, an MP of the state's ruling Rastriya Janata Dal party, an ally of the Congress Party.

He is running his election campaign from a hospital-turned-prison in the dusty town of Siwan, the constituency he is defending.

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