Norway: Police charge 150 after pornography raids

More than 150 Norwegians were charged with possession of child pornography after raids during a nationwide crackdown, police said Thursday.

Norway’s National Crime Police seized computers, video tapes and photographs from locations across the Scandinavian nation of 4.5 million people that showed the sexual abuse of children.

They said some suspects may have sexually abused children and more arrests could be made, but it would take time to catalog and analyze the material.

“Large quantities of child pornographic material have been seized in what was the largest such coordinated action in the country,” a police statement said, adding that the raids were launched after a comprehensive investigation and analysis.

Mexico City: Actress’ body exhumed

Officials exhumed the body of Mexican movie star Maria Felix Thursday, cloaking her grave in a black tarp and conducting a makeshift autopsy to investigate claims that she may not have died of natural causes.

The star’s brother, Benjamin Felix, requested the exhumation, saying he believed someone may have poisoned or given his sister medications to hasten her death. It was unclear who or why someone may have tried to kill Felix.

The film icon died in her sleep at her Mexico City home on April 8, her 88th birthday. Family members originally announced that a heart attack had claimed her life.

Her death brought much of Mexico to a standstill. Radio and television stations broke into regular programming to announce her death.

Nigeria: Couple sentenced to be stoned to death

An Islamic court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning for having an affair, marking the first time in Nigeria that a man has been sentenced to death for adultery, media reported Thursday.

The couple, Ahmadu Ibrahim and Fatima Usman, both 30, were sentenced to death Monday by a court in the central town of New Gawu.

Usman had become pregnant with Ibrahim’s child while she was married to another man, the radio and television reports said.

Ibrahim and Usman originally had been sentenced to five years in prison in May after pleading guilty to adultery but protested to a higher court that the sentence was too harsh.

Their appeal backfired Monday when the court ruled instead that their sentence was too lenient, the reports said.