A British backpacker had his right foot bitten off by a shark as he was attacked while snorkeling at a chain of popular tourist islands off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Alistair Raddon, 28, of Southampton, was attacked with Danny Maggs, 22, […]
Ending forced celibacy and ordaining female priests are among the reforms needed to address the shortage of Catholic priests in Ireland, an influential lobby group has said. The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) warned that if the decline in the […]
A British former headmaster of an international school in China has been jailed for 10 months in Singapore after admitting possession and consumption of methamphetamine, officials said Tuesday. Damien Michael Charnock used to be the head of Dulwich College Shanghai, a branch […]
A former election candidate for Marine Le Pen’s far-Right National Rally has been arrested for allegedly shooting and injuring two Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Bayonne, south-western France on Monday. The 84-year-old suspect, named locally as Claude Sinké, is […]
A hunter in the US was gored to death after a deer he believed he had shot dead got up and attacked him. Thomas Alexander, 66, was hunting in the Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, when he shot the buck and watched […]
President Donald Trump was booed by baseball fans as he attended a World Series game with his wife Melania in Washington on Sunday. Mr Trump attended the tie-breaking game five of the series on the day his administration announced the death, long-sought by the Pentagon, […]
It’s hard for “K” to pinpoint the exact moment he believes he suffered a brain haemorrhage during a violent arrest by two undercover officers in Hong Kong’s main shopping district at the end of a long day of pro-democracy protests […]
President Donald Trump’s abrupt order to withdraw US troops from Syria disrupted the planning of the raid on Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s compound, it has emerged. Mr Trump knew the intelligence services were zeroing in on the location for […]
Australia’s most notorious serial killer, who murdered at least seven people including two British tourists, has died in prison at the age of 74. Ivan Milat, who was convicted in 1996 of the murders of seven backpackers, died of stomach […]
A 56-year-old Iowa woman was killed by debris from an explosion at a ‘gender reveal’ party on Saturday, where a pipe bomb was "inadvertently" created, authorities said. Gender reveal parties are designed to announce the sex of an expectant couple’s […]