EPA Families of Israeli hostages have consistently demanded the government prioritises their release A group of some 600 retired Israeli security officials, including former heads of intelligence agencies, have written…
Nine people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, were kidnapped from an orphanage near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince on Sunday, officials have said. Gena Heraty, the facility’s director, was…
US rapper Soulja Boy was arrested on suspicion of weapons charges in Los Angeles early Sunday morning, according to US reports. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirmed to CBS…
A white South African farmer and his two employees accused of shooting dead two black women and feeding their bodies to pigs have gone on trial for their murders. Maria…
Cuts to council pest control services are being blamed for a town’s rodent problem, which includes the discovery of a supersize rat said to be 22in (56cm) from nose to…
Farage announces defection of Leicestershire’s police and crime commissioner from Tories to Reform UK Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, introduces a defector. It is Rupert Matthews, the police and…
Damian Grammaticas Political Correspondent BBC The sheet of paper says “Wanted Person” at the top. Below is a photo of a young woman, a headshot that might have been taken…
Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas in a bid to stop a vote on a new congressional map that would heavily favour Republicans. The redistricting, unveiled by Texas’ majority Republicans…
A Singapore-based billionaire hotelier has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to a rare corruption scandal that shocked the country last year. Ong Beng Seng has admitted to abetting the…
Strong gusts of wind helped two huge waterspouts merge just off Italy’s Delta del Po, on the country’s east coast. A local tour boat operator paused an excursion so he…
