Day: January 9, 2016

    An American couple whose seven year old son was discovered decomposed in their Spanish apartment had lost their sense of reality, the case prosecutor has said. Bruce and Schrell Hopkins, aged 39 and 38, claimed the child did not wake up one morning but they would not accept he was dead. They have been charged with negligent homicide. The couple, originally from the Detroit area, have been provisionally released after questioning from a judge but their passports have been confiscated. Case prosecutor Enrique Barata said the exact cause and time death of their asthmatic son Caleb had yet to be established - though he was known to be alive when the family celebrated a birthday at a restaurant on 15 November. He was found beneath several blankets in the rented apartment in Gir...

    Mexican marines recaptured fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman following an intense military operation, six months after his spectacular prison tunnel escape embarrassed authorities. The chase for the world's most-wanted drug lord ended in the northwestern coastal city of Los Mochis, in his Sinaloa home state, where marines clashed with gang suspects before capturing Guzman. The 58-year-old's arrest is a major sigh of relief for President Enrique Pena Nieto, whose administra-tion was humiliated when Guzman broke out of a maximum-security prison on July 11. "Mission accomplished: We got him," Pena Nieto wrote on Twitter. The arrest followed "intense and careful" intelligence and investigative work that "broke up the network of influence and protection of this cr...