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French authorities open criminal probe into Nora Anne's death

The results of a post-mortem report on Nora's body has been delayed for a second time until Thursday. "French authorities are at the disposal of Malaysian autho...

Flights Grounded After Plane Fire At Shannon Airport

The incident happened at around 6.20am this morning when a Boeing aircraft developed a problem. Omni Air said its is participating in an investigation into th...

Gay penguin couple adopt abandoned egg in Berlin zoo

Zoo staff had noted signs that the two penguins wanted an egg and had been attempting to hatch fish and stones, according to the dpa report. Zoo officials cho...

Philadelphia and VW ads banned for gender stereotyping

A Volkswagen TV commercial has been banned by the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) for contravening gender stereotype rules. The ASA said the ad present...

Venezuela's Maduro battles for control of US-based refinery

Such a manoeuvre could threaten the opposition's hold on the national assembly and with it Guaido's claim as head of the legislature to be the country's legit...

Spouse of Texas mass shooting victim welcomes all to funeral

The grieving USA community of El Paso came together Wednesday night, standing up to the hatred that took the lives of 22 people , many of them Hispanic, in a ...

Irish and French police 'satisfied' with Nora Quoirin postmortem

Malaysian police said Nora is likely to have spent a week in the jungle on her own. The naked body of Nora Anne Quoirin, 15, who suffered from learning diffic...

Gibraltar says no immediate plan to release Iranian tanker

The Gibraltar government does not officially confirm reports that it intends to release Iran's Grace 1 supertanker later on Tuesday, an official representat...

Cops: Son Asked for Jaguar, Pushed BMW He Got Into River

The man, who local news outlets referred to as 'Akash, " apparently wanted his father to buy him a Jaguar but got a BMW 3 series instead Akash reportedly felt...

Fire rages on Greece’s Evia, threat to people averted

Firefighters managed to contain the fire in a ravine near the village of Platana, backed by almost 100 vehicles, nine helicopters and 12 planes, including two f...

Alan Jones slams Jacinda Ardern's climate attack on Australia

On another occasion, he sensationally told a function that Ms Gillard's late father had "died of shame". Gillard's office confirmed that she did not want to tak...

Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life for Iraq shootings

Nicholas Slatten was convicted in December of first-degree murder by a federal jury in US District Court in Washington, the second time he had been found guilt...

UK trade pact 'won't pass Congress if Good Friday deal undermined'

She added: "If Brexit undermines the Good Friday accord, there will be no chance of a USA -U.K. trade agreement passing the Congress". U.S. President Donald T...

India gets above-average monsoon rains for third straight week: IMD

Accompanied by revenue minister E. Chandrasekharan and chief secretary Tom Jose, the chief minister would also be visiting relief centres in Malappuram and hold...

'Punch in the gut' as scientists find microplastic in Arctic ice

The latest study was led by Dr Melanie Bergmann of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Some 380 million metric tons ...

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation accuses Russian jet of conducting "unsafe" maneuver during aerial encounter

In an unrelated incident on August 14, state-run TASS news agency said two Russian Tu-95MS "missile-carrying bombers" were "shadowed by F-16 fighters of the Nor...

Britain's speaker aims to block parliament closure for Brexit - newspaper

Meanwhile, Speaker John Bercow vowed to "fight with every breath in my body" against any attempt by the Prime Minister to suspend Parliament in order to force t...

Missing schoolgirl Nora Anne Quoirin 'likely abducted' after body found

She was born with holoprosencephaly , a rare congenital brain malformation. Giving more details of her special needs last week, her parents explained that sh...

Donald Trump threatens to pull US from WTO 'if we have to'

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States may pull out of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), following what he claims are years of mis...

Jail guards assigned to watch Epstein were sleeping before his death

The FBI and the Justice Department's inspector general have been aggressively investigating Epstein's death , focusing on apparent breakdowns of policy at the ...

Is 'Fredo' an Ethnic Slur Against Italians?

However, he shouldn't "add to the ugliness" and "should be better than what I oppose". President Donald Trump reacted to a viral video showing CNN host Ch...

Eid al-Adha 2019: Muslims Observe Hajj With Stoning of the Devil

Numerous fatalities resulted from similar reasons and conditions. Local news outlets learned from their respective governments that Islam adherents from the P...

Canada authorities believe they have found bodies of suspects in killings

Following the discovery, they were able to narrow down the search. The majority of the search took place in Manitoba, where a burned auto reportedly used by the...

Three-year-old Irish boy in critical condition following swimming pool incident in Spain

Medics found the tot, believed to be from Cork, "very cold" but resuscitated him until his vital signs improved, local media reported. He was put on life supp...

Notre Dame area closed off for lead contamination removal

On July 25, fix work on the landmark was suspended after labour inspectors raised concerns about workers' safety. Authorities have launched multiple lead pre...

'One country, two systems': What's behind the Hong Kong protests

Such an extreme reaction might, in turn, disturb the global market, according to the Liberty Times . The USS Green Bay, an amphibious dock landing ship, wa...

Guatemalan Conservative Giammattei Leads Presidency Race: Early Results

Preliminary results show he took 59% of the vote, while his centre-left opponent Sandra Torres won 41%. Torres has won the first round on June 16 with 25 perc...

Macri's austerity policies prove costly in the primaries

The result of the primaries, seen by many as a key gauge for the first round of Argentina's presidential elections on October 27, is thought to be a clear signa...

Palace backs DFA move to ban surveys ships in Philippine waters

Malacañang has supported the move of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to include China in the list of countries whose survey vessels are prohibited in ...

Hundreds stranded on Mediterranean rescue boats

At least another 150 people remain on board the Spanish charity vessel, the Proactiva Open Arms. MSF said that Libyan authorities have failed to provide a "pl...