Trenton Police Negotiating With Gunman Holding 3 Hostages

A standoff in Trenton, New Jersey is still going.

It began on Friday afternoon, when police officers conducting a wellness check found a body at a home.

They were going to investigate further when they were confronted by a man with a gun, and they backed off.

Since then police have surrounded the home, and been joined by the FBI.

Authorities believe that the man has three hostages, ages 17, 14, and 4.

The man has already killed the children's mother and thirteen year old brother.

Police hope to talk the man into releasing his hostages and surrendering, before anyone else is hurt.

West Wing Evacuated Due to Smoke

The West Wing was evacuated for part of Saturday after smoke began coming from a utility closet.

Fire fighters responded and discovered that a piece of equipment had overheated, causing the smoke.

Once the smoke had stopped, and the site was deemed safe, the evacuation was lifted.

The evacuation included the press corp.

Illegal Immigrant Goes on Pickaxe Rampage Killing 1 in Milan

Twenty-one year old Mada Kabobo was arrested by Italian police, on Saturday.

The illegal immigrant, from Ghana, is being charged with one count of murder and two of attempted murder.

According to authorities he began swinging a pickaxe in Milan, attacking people at random.

Before police subdued him, he killed one man and injured four people, two of them critically.

There is no known motive for the attack.

Kabobo already has a police record of property damage, robbery, theft, and resisting arrest.

Egypt Foils Plot to Attack Western Embassy

Egyptian police are saying that they foiled a plot to attack a western embassy.

According to authorities they arrested three men, connected to Al Qaeda.

The men had been planning a suicide attack, involving chemicals and explosive devices.

They have not specified which embassy was to be targeted.

Pakistanis Vote Despite Taliban Threats

Pakistanis headed to the polls despite Taliban violence against polling stations.

Taliban attacks had claimed more than one hundred and fifty lives over the past month, and twenty-nine more were killed on Saturday.

Despite that, millions voted in the election, the first transfer between civilian governments, that the country has ever seen.

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N looks to be the winner of the election.

If they win Sharif will likely become prime minister again, giving him his third time in the position.

Car Bombs Kill 43 in Turkey

Forty-three people are dead and one hundred and forty wounded after two car bombs struck Reyhanli, Turkey, on Saturday.

The two explosions occurred about fifteen minutes apart, one outside the city hall, the other outside the post office.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay, the terrorists responsible have connections to the Syrian government.

He did not explain what had led them to that belief or which group was responsible.

Many in Turkey are worried that their country will be drawn into the Syrian civil war.

Sacramento Woman Slaps Officer to Quit Smoking

Thirty-one year old Etta Lopez walked up to Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Compoy, on Tuesday night, and slapped him.

Lopez was quickly arrested for assaulting an officer.

When asked why she had slapped the deputy, she responded by saying that she wanted to be arrested.

She continued to say that she was trying to quit smoking, and that only in jail would she be sure she would make it.

Ohio Kidnapper Facing Death Penalty

Fifty-two year old Ariel Castro is now facing the death penalty for holding three women, against their will, for a decade.

He is charged with kidnapping them more than ten years ago, until they escaped on Monday.

Castro will face rape charges, one for each of the women, and four kidnapping charges, as one of the women gave birth to a girl who is now six.

Authorities are also seeking five counts of aggravated murder, against him.

According to Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty, Castro impregnated one of the women and beat her into miscarriages five different times.

Each of the murder charges could bring the death penalty with them.

On Friday, Castro was in court and notified that his bail had been set at eight million dollars.

Survivor Pulled From Rubble 17 Days After Building Collapse

A survivor was pulled from the rubble of the Rhana Plaza building collapse, in Dhaka, on Friday.

The nineteen year old woman survived by sipping on a bottle of water, since the collapse occurred seventeen days ago.

Bangladesh's press turned her into an instant heroine, calling her a miracle.

Friday also marked a less hopeful moment, when the thousandth body was recovered.

As of the end of Friday, one thousand and fifty bodies have been recovered, with hundreds more still missing.

Orthodox Jews Clash With Israeli Police Over Women Using Prayer Shawls

Orthodox Jews clashed with Israeli police, on Friday, at the Western Wall.

Thousands of Orthodox protesters showed up to try and prevent a Jewish women's group, and their supporters, from praying at the Wailing Wall.

The women came to pray carrying Torahs and wearing prayer shawls, phylacteries, and skull caps all of which the Orthodox consider to only be allowed for men.

Previously police have blocked women, so adorned, from praying at the holy site.

However, a recent court ruling gave the women the right to pray using the items, and Friday was the first time they came using them.

Police formed a barricade with their own bodies, to protect the women and allow them their time to pray.

The women plan on praying at the first day of each month, on the Jewish calendar, until their safety is no longer a worry and they can come whenever.