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TAMPA - A Tampa man charged with torturing a 10-year-old female relative because she discovered his pornographic movie collection remains jailed this afternoon. No bail has been set. Authorities learned of the incident through an anonymous tip and police went to the girl's elementary school to interview her Thursday. The school was not named by authorities. The girl was reluctant to talk about the incident, which happened last week, because she didn't want to get her relative in trouble, said Tampa police spokesman Jim Contento. Arrested late Thursday afternoon was Moslim Al Assadi, 36, who lived in the 1900 block...

Achille Lauro What happened during the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985? AP Photo Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, 1985 On October 7, 1985 four heavily armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, with some 100 mostly elderly passengers on board, in Egyptian waters. The hijackers demanded that Israel free 50 Palestinian prisoners, and to prove their determination, they shot and killed a disabled American tourist, 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer, and threw his body overboard with his wheelchair. After a two-day drama, the Egyptian government, unaware that Klinghoffer...