A man who stormed into a Zurich mosque and opened fire on praying worshipers on Monday was found dead near the crime scene, Swiss police said.

The suspected gunman seriously wounded three Somali men, ages 30, 35 and 56, with a spray of bullets fired shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time near the main train station in Switzerland’s financial capital, according to congregants and authorities.

Investigators on Tuesday said there was no evidence to link the assailant to a terrorist group. They declined to comment on the potential motive. The attack happened as authorities in Germany investigated a terrorist attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin. In Turkey, an Ankara policeman assassinated a Russian ambassador.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A group of good Samaritans stopped a homeless man with a history of public lewdness arrests from raping a drunken clubgoer near Union Square over the weekend, police sources said. The 23-year-old woman, her clothing half off, was screaming “No!” with the alleged attacker, Nelis Calix, 39, on top of her, when two women came on the scene at Park Ave. and E. 17th St. at about 1 a.m. Sunday, police sources said.

The women walked into the nearby W Hotel and told an employee, who went outside and saw Calix naked from the waist down, sources said. The woman was underneath a blanket with her pants and underwear on one leg, sources said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Barbados – Antigua and Barbuda is the first country to access major funding from the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Partnership Fund (UKCIF). The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved a grant of GBP13.9 million to assist the country with the rehabilitation of two major roads, the Sir George Walter Highway and Friars Hill Road.

Approximately 75 percent of people living in Antigua use the Sir George Walter Highway and Friars Hill Road on a daily basis. The roads connect the capital of St. John’s, prime tourism areas, heavily populated areas and the V.C. Bird International Airport. The project will upgrade the roads to improve safety and capacity, and renovate their drainage infrastructure.

“We’ve chosen two very important roads which will lead into the airport and improve transportation within the country. The benefits to be derived therefrom are endless…We are using this project as a stepping stone to develop the entire country’s network as far as roads are concerned and, with this grant, with this assistance from the CDB, we shall be on our way to a complete road programme in the country of Antigua and Barbuda,” said Steadroy Benjamin, Acting Prime Minister and Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda.

In July 2016, CDB funded a technical assistance study, “Road Infrastructure Rehabilitation – Antigua and Barbuda”, which informed the development of preliminary engineering designs, cost estimates, and specifications for this project, along with six other key sections of the road network. The recommended improvements were based on current and projected road usage.(CDB)…[+]