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In April, Ian Brackenbury Channell told a comedy current affairs show that he would 'never strike a woman because they bruise too easily' - a remark which drew considerable criticism.... Read more »

Espen Andersen Bråthen has been officially charged with five counts of murder over a bow rampage through the town of Kongsberg, Norway, as police say more charges will be added.... Read more »

A PENSIONER has died after spending two days in a rural healthcare centre because all hospital beds were filled with mostly unvaccinated Covid patients.... Read more »

Shiite worshippers were taking part in Friday prayers at the Fatemieh mosque - also known as Imam Bargah - in Kandahar when a suicide bomber walked in and blew himself up.... Read more »

FRENCH Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has told his British counterpart Rishi Sunak that Brexit has made the ongoing supply chain crisis even worse for the UK.... Read more »

A CHINESE combat training camp contains a replica of Taipei used for invasion drills by the People's Liberation Army .... Read more »

THE European Central Bank has warned of a new bubble in the housing market, which could lead to a new financial crash.... Read more »

Nicolas Pijnenborgh did odd jobs for Margaret McNulty, 70, and had gone to her house in Granja de Rocamora near Elche the night of the murder in November 2019 to borrow money.... Read more »

A puppuccino-obsessed pup will refuse to eat his favourite whipped cream treat - unless it's served in a Starbucks cup.... Read more »

INCREDIBLE scenes at the site of La Palma volcano as a sea of boiling molten lava flows down towards residents and buildings.... Read more »

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: A baby monkey clung onto its mother in the jaws of a lion before another lion finished off the infant at South Africa's Zimanga Private Game Reserve.... Read more »

Taken above China's Longtian, Huian and Zhangzhou bases, the pictures reveal the construction of storage bunkers, expanded aprons and new administrative buildings.... Read more »

The prosecutor's office in Tomsk said the woman had struck the man several times in the head, ribs, and neck with an axe in 2019 after approaching him from behind while he watched TV.... Read more »

POLEXIT fears are growing in the EU as Poland plans on building a border wall with Belarus - to combat their migrant crisis and illegal crossings.... Read more »

EMMANUEL MACRON showed his football skills off during a charity football game before unveiling a multimillion-euro plan for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.... Read more »

FORMER PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has been admitted to hospital to receive treatment for a "non-Covid-related infection".... Read more »

CHINA has warned Liz Truss not to jeopardise the relationship between London and Beijing after the Foreign Secretary pledged solidarity with China's arch nemesis, Lithuania, which has increasing ties with Taiwan.... Read more »

China’s crackdown on for-profit tutoring of K-12 students is part of a campaign aimed at curbing capitalist excess and promoting common prosperity.... Read more »

A Black-run canoe club in Soweto, South Africa, has given thousands of kids a passion they might never have otherwise found.... Read more »

As governments prepare to pledge reduced carbon emissions at a U.N. climate summit, surging fossil fuel demand may focus minds on action, not words.... Read more »

Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, while briefing counter-terror experts who gathered for Global Security Forum in Doha this week, stated that his country believes the international community should urge the Taliban to... Read more »

Three explosions rocked a mosque in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar during prayers Friday, killing more than a dozen people.... Read more »

Curbs on non-essential travelers at land borders have been in place since March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Reuters first reported the announcement earlier on Friday.... Read more »

Joe Biden just isn’t that interested in opposing Bashar Assad.... Read more »

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China's central bank said Friday that the risk of spillover from embattled property giant Evergrande to the financial sector was "controllable", breaking its silence on the company's debt troubles, state media reported.... Read more »

On La Palma, several malnourished dogs were found roaming a walled-in yard that's been covered in ash -- and reaching them was impossible until two companies stepped in with life-saving drones recently.... Read more »

Nematullah Wafa, a former member of the provincial council, said the blast occurred at the Imam Bargah mosque and caused heavy casualties but there were no immediate confirmation of the number of dead and wounded. There... Read more »

As per The Verge, social media giant Facebook announced that the company has started rolling out end-to-end encrypted backups to WhatsApp, on Thursday.... Read more »

Many of the projects laid out in the report are not new, including mandatory disclosure rules under consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring more clarity to investors about climate change-related investment risk.... Read more »

One local authority in England, West Berkshire Council, has told people who were tested at the government-run Newbury Showground site between Oct. 3 and 12 and were told they were negative to get tested again. Britain... Read more »

As part of this strategy, the Chinese government is recommending its tech giants – Huawei, ZTE and Cloudwalk to enter into mobile telephony, social media and e-commerce applications in Africa, according to experts on Sino-African ties.... Read more »

Wednesday's report showed that, at least in India, manipulating search results to favour Amazon's products, as well as copying other sellers' goods, were part of a formal strategy at Amazon - and that at least two... Read more »

The collapse of the talks for the landmark building's sale is another setback for cash-strapped Evergrande which has been scrambling to divest some assets to repay creditors knocking on its doors. With more than $300 billion... Read more »

Toyota said it learned of the lawsuit "with great regret," stressing it had checked on possible patent conflicts with Baosteel. Toyota sees Nippon Steel as an "important business partner," supporting the Japanese auto industry for years,... Read more »

A Conservative Party minister in the U.K. was stabbed several times during a meeting with his constituents at a church, according to police.... Read more »

Protests erupted in Italy as one of the most stringent anti-coronavirus measures in Europe went into effect Friday, requiring all workers, from magistrates to maids, to show a health pass to get into their place of... Read more »

Suicide bombers assaulted a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshippers attending weekly Friday prayers, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 70, according to a hospital official and an eyewitness.... Read more »

Armed clashes erupted Thursday in Beirut during a protest organized by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its allies against the lead judge probing last year’s blast in the city’s port. At least six people were... Read more »

At least 46 people were killed in a fire overnight Wednesday at a high-rise apartment building in southern Taiwan and dozens of others were injured, local officials said Thursday.... Read more »

The deadly bow-and-arrow attack carried out by a Danish suspect in a small Norwegian town yesterday that claimed the lives of five people “currently appear[s] to be an act of terrorism," Norway's national security agency announced... Read more »

Prince William criticized space tourism this week, saying that innovators should be focused on saving Earth, not looking for a new planet to inhabit.... Read more »

Taiwan’s top military official said Thursday that Taipei will not start a kinetic war with China as tensions in the region intensify after Beijing recently launched record numbers of military aircraft towards the island.... Read more »

An Australian former soldier accused of storming an animal shelter to retrieve his cat pleaded guilty Monday to charges in connection with the offense.... Read more »

A man killed several people and injured others in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg Wednesday evening, according to local police and reports.... Read more »

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reviewed powerful missiles developed to launch nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland, as he vowed to build an “invincible” military to cope with what he called persistent U.S. hostility, state... Read more »

A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II told a German court Friday that he was innocent.... Read more »

Greece is increasing border guards along its border with Turkey in anticipation of a spike in illegal immigration brought on by the chaos in Afghanistan, officials said Monday.... Read more »

China has denied the World Health Organization access to bat caves and wildlife farming areas in a region six hours west of Wuhan — as it emerged that nearby wet markets were banned from selling live... Read more »

A U.S.-based economist won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers, challenging... Read more »

A plane carrying a group of parachute jumpers crashed after takeoff in the Russian region of Tatarstan early on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring six, the Emergencies Ministry said.... Read more »

Disturbing footage shows the moment a Russian actor is crushed to death during a live performance at Moscow’s famed Bolshoi Theatre on Saturday.... Read more »

The Taliban on Saturday ruled out cooperation with the United States to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan, staking out an uncompromising position on a key issue ahead of the first direct talks between the former foes... Read more »

When Russian regulators approved the country's own coronavirus vaccine, it was a moment of national pride, and the Pavlov family was among those who rushed to take the injection. But international health authorities have not yet... Read more »

Thousands of demonstrators marched down Rome’s Via Veneto and other main streets on Saturday, some clashing with police, to protest a government rule requiring COVID-19 vaccines or negative tests to access workplaces next week.... Read more »