A court hearing is scheduled Friday for the man accused of setting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train and fanning the flames with a shirt as she burned to death.
Travelling through the Gambia, it is hard to avoid the makeshift dumpsites burning along the roadsides, filling the air with toxic fumes. Outside the tourist areas, beaches and waterways are littered ...
"There was a vivid red flash and a terrific bang. My lorry disappeared," he told an inquest, "and the railway truck, in which the four men were, also disappeared. "When I came round, all I could see ...