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Japan sarin attack cult leader executed

The others are Tomomasa Nakagawa, Tomomitsu Niimi, Kiyohide Hayakawa, Yoshihiro Inoue, Seiichi Endo and Masami Tsuchiya, according to Japanese Justice Ministe...

Donald Jr. Rips Montana's Tester as Schumer's 'Liberal Lapdog'

Mr. Trump said Kennedy had made a decision to leave the High Court because he knew the president would pick a stellar replacement. President Donald Trump ...

3,000 migrant children still separated from parents, official says

During a call with reporters, Azar did not provide an exact number of children separated from families, but said that "a review and comprehensive audit of multi...

Justin Trudeau again defends himself against groping allegation

An unsigned editorial in the August 14 issue of the Creston Valley Advance accuses Trudeau, 28 at the time, of "inappropriately handling" the reporter while s...

Turnbull won't intervene in Nauru ABC ban

Rights groups have criticised conditions that asylum seekers endure there. "The decision by the government of Nauru to pick and choose the journalists who cov...

How Do Online Casinos Make Their Money?

However, a pressing issue or a question so to say has always arisen with regards to how these business platforms have been managing to keep their businesses run...

Police To Investigate "External Influence" In Delhi Deaths

In yet another shocking revelation in the mysterious case of deaths of 11 members of Bhatia family in Delhi's Burari , the Delhi Police now suspects that...

Former leader of Japanese doomsday cult hanged over 1995 sarin gas attack

Shoko Asahara , the charismatic, virtually-blind leader of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, has been on death row for more than a decade over the attack, which shocked...

Alesha MacPhail Death: Boy, 16, Charged

She said: "I understand that there will be a high level of concern among people living in this close knit community but I want to reassure people that everythin...

Trump and United States delegation to bring up election meddling with Putin

Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Ambassador Jon Huntsman said the private meeting on July 16 will be followed by an expanded bilateral meeting with...

Iran thinks Israel has been stealing its clouds to cause a drought

However he was later contradicted by the nation's weather chief. The head of Iran's meteorological service quickly countered the general's claims, although ...

Former Fox News executive joins Trump staff

Shine will be serving as Trump's assistant and deputy chief of staff for communications . The brief White House statement noted that Shine "brings over t...

USA begins trade war by hitting China with $34bn tariffs

Asked on Thursday whether China would target US-funded businesses in China to counter U.S. restrictions on Chinese products, Chinese Ministry of Commerce spok...

Three video bloggers dead after accident at Shannon Falls in Squamish

Mounties have been contacting the families of the missing people, but aren't releasing their names. The bodies of the woman and two men, all from British Colu...

Fireworks explosion outside Mexico City kills at least 24

Emergency teams were responding to the call for the first explosion when a second explosion occurred, resulting in the deaths and injuries of members of those t...

OR woman calls 911 on black lawmaker canvassing neighborhood

The deputy said someone had called to report her behavior - spending several minutes at each house and typing on her cell phone - appeared as if she was casin...

Hormuz Strait either for all, or for none: Iranian commander

Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the chief IRGC commander, made the remarks in reference to Iran's President Hassan Rouhani's recent statement that if Iran ca...

Japan cult leader behind gas attack, followers are executed

Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported that six followers were also executed, citing unidentified sources. The sarin gas attack killed 13 people and sick...

One dead, 'dozens missing' as Phuket tourist boat sinks

Collated reports at midnight said 53 people are missing in the rough waters that overturned their boat. He said the boat was hit by five metre-high waves, whi...

Police confirm poisoned English couple handled an item contaminated with nerve agent

Wallace specifically relates this new incident to the Skripal case.He is quoted as saying "the working assumption" is that the new victims were poisoned as "the...

Canada PM Justin Trudeau denies groping allegation

Trudeau said he does not recall any "negative interactions" on the day in question. "I remember that day in Creston well". "I had a good day that day", he s...

3-year-old girl wounded in USA stabbing attack dies

He is being held without bail due to extreme risk to the community, said Judge Russell Comstock. The stabbing victims were from Ethiopia, Iraq and Syria, accord...

SCOTUS: Trump interviews senator as possible replacement for Kennedy

A Republican appointee, he has held the key vote on such high-profile issues as abortion , affirmative action, gay rights, guns, campaign finance and voting ...

DNA testing being done on separated migrant children and parents, official says

He said the administration will meet the "extreme" and "arbitrary" deadline imposed by the court to reunite families. But the government has yet to return chi...

With Pruitt’s Departure, More Than A Quarter of Trump’s Cabinet Has Changed

Pruitt's was facing around a dozen investigations into his tenure, including his frequent use of first-class flights and his spending on security - which the ...

Facebook accidentally flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech, then apologizes

Facebook's filters flagged a passage from the Declaration of Independence- as hate speech. Sky News has contacted Facebook for comment. Parts of the documen...

Japanese tourist dies climbing Australia's Uluru

The man is the 37th person to die on Uluru since it was open to tourists in the 1960s and after the first chain was embedded in the rock in 1966 to aid climbi...

IVF hope for almost-extinct northern white rhino

The researchers froze their hybrid rhinoceros embryos so they can try implanting them into a female SWR surrogate using in vitro fertilization (IVF ) at some p...

Dozens missing after boat capsizes off Thailand's Phuket island

Thai Navy boats are searching for those who remain missing but rescue efforts are being hampered by conditions. It was not immediately clear which boat they b...

Koreas begin basketball friendlies in latest peace gesture

It wasn't clear whether he would attend on Thursday. They were matches between teams made up of a mixture of North and South Korean players. "I am proud tha...