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FORT WORTH, Texas - A group of people in Fort Worth stoned a gunman to death after a shooting killed one and injured three others. The incident happened about 1 a.m. Monday in Fort Worth's Como neighborhood on the southwest side in the 5600 block of Shiloh Drive, near Bryant Irvin Road and the Chisholm Trail Parkway. Police said "small gathering" was happening in someone's backyard when a person became upset and left. He shortly returned, with another person, and got into an argument with multiple people. At that point he shot at least one person, non-fatally police said. After...

A young mother of two has been put to death in Pakistan for possessing a cell phone. Arifa Bibi was sentenced to death by stoning by a Pakistani tribal court, and was executed on July 11 at the hands of her family. Her uncle, cousins and other family members threw stones at the woman until she died, all because she had a mobile phone. She was buried in the desert far away from her home village, and according to reports, her family was not permitted to be involved in her funeral.

Man could receive death penalty for adultery with ex-wife Jeddah- Under strict sharia law a Saudi man could be stoned to death for committing adultery with his ex-wife, who was unaware he had divorced her. A Saudi woman has demanded that her ex-husband receive the strictest punishment under sharia law, for committing adultery with her. In a bizarre tale the Saudi man divorced his wife without letting her know, yet continued to have sex with her. The woman had no inkling they were no longer man and wife. Emirates 247 reported that four months after divorcing his wife, the man...

Kim Jong-il 'Has Nightmares of Being Stoned by His People' North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has recurrent nightmares about being stoned by his people, according to the son of a South Korean tycoon who knew Kim well. Chung Mong-joon, the ex-head of the ruling Grand National Party, on Sunday recalled hearing the story from his late father, Hyundai Group founder Chung Ju-yung. "My father met Kim Jong-il many times and had lengthy conversations with him over meals. Kim once said, 'Many people come to greet me wherever I go, but I know that they don't like me. I have dreams...