The search for a former Arkansas police chief convicted of rape and murder continues after he escaped from prison on Sunday. Grant Hardin was chief of police in Gateway, Arkansas – a small town of a few hundred residents on the state’s border with Missouri – for around four months in 2016, according to the...
A large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway last week has been refloated. Johan Helberg, who owns the house the ship nearly crashed into, said he “wouldn’t have traded this experience for anything” as he watched it being removed from his property. “Get a ship in your garden, and...
Frances Mao & Natasha Preskey BBC News Getty Images Aftermath of an Israeli strike at Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City on 26 May Hundreds of lawyers have called on the UK government to use “all available means” to stop the fighting in Gaza, including reviewing trade ties with Israel and imposing sanctions and travel...
French MPs have voted to allow some people in the last stages of a terminal illness the right to assisted dying. The National Assembly approved the bill, which is backed by President Emmanuel Macron, by 305 votes to 199. It will now go to the upper house, the Senate, before a second reading in the...
A look at the King’s historic 2025 visit to Ottawa and opening of the Canadian parliament. Read full article at source...
War-torn Sudan is now “on the brink” of a public health disaster as cholera and other deadly diseases spread, aid group, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned. In just one week, Sudan’s Health Ministry recorded that 172 people have died due to a cholera outbreak, posting on Facebook that most of the new cases...
A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province on Tuesday around noon, killing at least five people and injuring 19 others. Footage circulating online shows thick columns of black smoke rising from the site. More than 200 emergency workers were dispatched to Shandong Youdao Chemical factory, which according to its website...
Álvarez-Alonso et al The pebble on the left, before it was excavated, and on the right after being unearthed. Scientists in Spain say they have discovered the oldest full human fingerprint after unearthing a rock which they say resembles a human face and suggests Neanderthals could make art. A Neanderthal man is believed to have...
This article contains distressing descriptions of death Swedish authorities have charged a convicted terrorist over the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in Syria. Osama Krayem, 32 – a Swedish citizen – was on Tuesday charged with war and terrorism crimes relating to the death of Moaz al-Kasasbeh. Krayem is...
The Trump administration will direct federal agencies to review their grants to Harvard University to potentially end or redistribute funding, as part of the White House’s escalating battle with America’s oldest university. The Government Services Agency (GSA) plans to circulate a letter to agencies “asking them to identify any contracts with Harvard, and whether they...
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images The EU is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat and two other pornography websites it believes may be falling foul of its online content laws. The European Commission said the sites, which also include XVideos and XNXX, did not appear to have measures in place to safeguard children and their rights. It...
A Syrian man has admitted carrying out a knife attack in the German town of Solingen last August in which three people were killed. “I have committed a grave crime, I am prepared to accept the verdict,” Issa al H said in a statement read out by his defence lawyers at the start of his...
In a world first, wildlife researchers have snapped and published a photo of one of the most endangered African animals – a rare and relatively unknown antelope called the Upemba Lechwe. Researchers carried out an aerial survey in the Kamalondo Depression, an area in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, which spotted just 10 of the...
US President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted on fraud and bribery charges. A jury found former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins guilty of accepting more than $75,000 (£55,000) in bribes last December, in exchange for making several businessmen into law enforcement officers without them being trained....
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed into law a contentious bill that requires all motorists to buy a radio licence before acquiring vehicle insurance. There has been an outcry from some motorists as they will now have to pay $92 (£68) annually in order to listen to the radio in their vehicles. The introduction of...