Mystery deaths of two Saudi sisters in Sydney SYDNEY, Aug 12: On 7 June, Australian authorities knocked on the door of a Sydney apartment. Mail was piled up outside the door, and the tenants hadn't paid rent in more than three months. Inside, they found two dead women - sisters from Saudi Arabia - whose bodies had lain undiscovered, in separate bedrooms, for weeks. Two months on, despite "extensive inquiries", police remain baffled over what happened to Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23. There were no signs of forced entry to the apartment and no obvious signs of injury, police have said, describing the deaths as "suspicious" and "unusual". They're still waiting for a coroner to conclude how the women died. — BBC
NY gun bans alarm residents of upstate bear country NEW YORK, Aug 12: Gunfire has long echoed in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Children blast skeet from the sky after school and parents mingle and compete at the shooting range. In the fall, hunters in fluorescent orange fan through the forests, stalking deer. So June's landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court establishing a constitutional right to carry weapons in public seemed like a vindication of an upstate, gun-centric way of life. The feeling was short-lived. The ruling by the court's conservative majority appalled Democratic leaders across the country who said it would lead to more gun violence. — Reuters
Hamza challenges SC order removing him as Punjab CM ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Former chief minister Punjab Hamza Shahbaz on Friday challenged the Supreme Court order which set aside the Punjab Assembly deputy speaker's ruling which discarded ten votes of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), thus leading to Hamza's victory as the provincial chief executive. Hamza, through Mansoor Awan, filed a review petition in the apex court against the July 26 order which thwarted former deputy speaker Dost Mohammad Mazari's decision and declared Pervez Elahi as the new CM of the country's political heartland. The PML-N leader prayed that a full court be constituted to decide the matters involving the interpretation and application of Article 63A of the Constitution in this regard, as well as other connected matters and that they are heard together by the full court or at least a 12-member bench. — Tribune
NEW YORK, Aug 12: Gunfire has long echoed in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Children blast skeet from the sky after school and parents mingle and compete at the shooting range. In the fall, hunters in fluorescent orange fan through the forests, stalking deer. So June's landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court establishing a constitutional right to carry weapons in public seemed like a vindication of an upstate, gun-centric way of life. The feeling was short-lived. The ruling by the court's conservative majority appalled Democratic leaders across the country who said it would lead to more gun violence. — Reuters