19 DEAD IN EGYPT TRAIN ACCIDENT
CAIRO: A train carrying military conscripts derailed southwest of Cairo on Tuesday, killing 19 people and wounding 107. The train was taking young recruits from south Egypt to a military camp in Cairo when two carriages went off the rails shortly after midnight in the Giza neighborhood of Badrasheen, officials said.

Over 60 ambulances were sent to the site of the accident, where rescuers were working to extract survivors and bodies from the twisted heap of metal on the side of the rails. It is the fifth deadly train accident since President Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt’s first Islamist president in June.

PRINCE WILLIAM’S FIRST BORN DUE IN JULY
LONDON: Prince William and his wife Catherine’s first child is due in July, St. James’s Palace announced on Monday. The palace also said that the mother-to-be was returning to full health following her hospitalization last month with severe morning sickness.”Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted to confirm they are expecting a baby in July,” the palace said in a statement, suggesting the duchess is at least three months pregnant.”The duchess’s condition continues to improve since her stay in hospital last month,” it added.

NY BUS DRIVERS GO ON STRIKE
NEW YORK CITY: Drivers of New York’s yellow school buses planned to go on strike on Wednesday, leaving 152,000 children looking for a new way to get to class on time. The drivers’ union announced the strike on Monday after failing to come to an agreement with the city over job security. The strike will also include staff known as matrons who oversee the children as they get on and off buses.The city announced a series of measures aimed at alleviating the hassle for parents. Subway tickets will be given free of charge to students and parents using cars, or taxis for the school run will be reimbursed.

BOY FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING DAD
LOS ANGELES: An abused 12-year-old boy who shot his Neo-Nazi father dead, while he was sleeping at their California home was found guilty on Monday of second degree murder. Joseph Hall was 10 at the time of the killing, in which he shot his 32-year-old father Jeff Hall in the head in the early hours of May 1, 2011, as he slept, drunk, on a sofa. He used his father’s .357 revolver. “The minor knew what he did was wrong,” said Judge Jean Leonard of the Riverside County Superior Court, east of Los Angeles, adding that Hall planned the attack after his father threatened to break up his marriage and abandon the family. “He put the barrel of a handgun to his father’s head and pulled the trigger. There was planning and understanding in the commission of this crime,” added the judge, who handed down the conviction without a jury. AFP