Warning: Disturbing content VANCOUVER Two teens have been found guilty of second-degree murder in the brutal and violent killing of a Surrey, B.C., man. Delphin Paul Prestbakmo’s grieving family is now hoping the two will be sentenced as adults, an avenue which the Crown does intend to pursue in the case. Cheers and embraces followed the guilty verdicts outside provincial court in Surrey on Tuesday. Prestbakmo’s brother, Stephen, said the victim was a “unique person” and always loved to help others, often working late at his job as a mechanic in order to do so. “My brother was a good person,” he said. “That wasn’t how he should have died.”
US Falls Behind in Global Race for Talent
The US has long attracted the world’s top talent coming to its shores for study and work and benefited richly from their innovations. Advanced engineering, math and science programs of US universities depend on students from China, India and South Korea: More than a third of the US doctoral-level science and engineering workforce was born outside the United States, reports Bruce Stokes, transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Yet aspiring engineers and scientists are having second thoughts as they encounter an economy in decline and American ambivalence over the contributions of immigration, education and science. Australia, Great Britain and Canada adjust policies to attract top students, and fast growth in emerging economies also beckons graduates. A first step to reinvigorating the US economy could be crafting education and immigration policies to attract and keep students with top skills. – YaleGlob
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Despite the sign over the door and the tables on the pavement, there was no welcome smile or frothy cappuccino for passers-by at Cafe de Ketel in Rotterdam.
Despite its innocent appearance, the cafe s doors opened on to an operations centre for global drug deals - if you were able to get through them.
Customers were by invitation only and they had to negotiate the security cameras and the buzzer system before they were allowed inside.
Police believe that traffickers from South America, the UK, Netherlands and Spain met there to discuss their plans until it was raided by police in 2013.
Dutch café was a front for international drug smuggling operations thenationalnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenationalnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
RANGERS became the first and to date only British football club to enjoy a “perfect season” and win all of their league matches after being awarded a “dodgy penalty” at the end of a thrilling encounter with Hibernian. And the SFA took action to prevent referees being intimidated immediately after the “Invincibles” achieved their epic feat – by giving them their own dressing room for the first time so they no longer had to change with the players. The Ibrox club triumphed in all 18 of their Division One games in the 1898/99 season – but they came very close to dropping points in a match against Hibs in November.