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Shamima Begum Allowed To Return To UK To Fight Citizenship Case

She was one of three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy in London who left their families to join Isis . "We have a duty to act to bring to justice those...

Coronavirus cases in India cross 10-lakh mark, death toll tops 25000

While the number of new cases has exceeded 30,000 in India for the last two days, Brazil has been adding more than 40,000 cases on most days while in the Uni...

ACLU sues feds over Portland protest violence

Oregon Governor Kate Brown has accused federal agents in unmarked cars who apparently detained protesters in Portland of a "blatant abuse of power". "It's p...

Fire Breaks Out At Nantes Cathedral In France

An eyewitness who lives near the cathedral told the LCI news outlet that he was woken up by "a very odd sound of bells" and he could see the fire from his hom...

'Black Forest Rambo' nabbed after six-day manhunt: German police

Rieger said the hard, hilly forest terrain, which the suspect was believed to know well, posed a particular challenge to police - "but we were relatively sure, ...

Coronavirus crisis: Two new COVID-19 cases recorded in WA

It was one of two new cases overnight, the other an global traveller, for the state as Health Minister Roger Cook announced Victorians arriving in WA would now ...

BJP's Gajendra Singh Shekhawat involved in Rajasthan horse trading: Congress

Speaker C.P. Joshi had earlier given time till Friday afternoon to the MLAs of the Pilot camp to respond to his notices. The notices were served after the pa...

US civil rights pioneer, congressman John Lewis dies, Pelosi says

He had been diagnosed as stage 4 in December 2019. Lewis' death was confirmed Friday evening by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , who echoed her friend's oft-quot...

Shark pulls 10-year-old from fishing boat in Australia

A 10-year-old boy in Australia is lucky to be alive after being dragged off a boat by a shark, according to authorities. Comparisons have been drawn between A...

China's Yangtze River sees second flood of the year

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Water Resources said the water level of main streams in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river, Dongting lake and Poyan...

NY police 'arrest associate' of tech entrepreneur beheaded in Manhattan apartment

Surveillance footage from his apartment building showed Saleh being followed by a man inside an elevator that opened to his seventh-floor apartment. Police sa...

Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to skirt Trump's objections

The statement described the USA banner as "the principal flag we are authorized and encouraged to display". "The memorandum does not authorize public display ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg announces recurrence of cancer

When Justice Ginsburg attended in 1956, one year behind her husband, she was one of nine women to enrol. Ginsburg, meanwhile, was nominated to the court by form...

‘No dancing, no singing’: Australia coronavirus measures increase as surge spreads

Such is the size of the Victoria outbreak, Australia on Friday posted its second biggest one-day rise in new COVID-19 infections, with 438 cases. There are ...

US Records Over 77000 Coronavirus Cases in a Day

When COVID-19 was ravaging NY three months ago, state officials there recorded 799 deaths on April 9 and a seven-day average of 763 deaths on April 14, the ...

'Hey, Karen. Watch Your Mouth'

Lightfoot saw the statement made by McEnany and simply said , "Hey, Karen ". Lightfoot, a Democrat , followed up with her own tweet which referred to McE...

Russia's Putin orders massive snap military drills - International

The ministry added that the checks of the troops of the southern and western military districts were carried out to assess the ability of the Russian armed forc...

Ahmaud Arbery: Three men plead not guilty to murder charges

Cobb County prosecutor Jesse Evans said in court Bryan was facing a separate state criminal investigation into possible sex crimes. Bryan's attorneys also r...

British policeman suspended after video shows him kneeling on black suspect's neck

They said: "I was anxious he was going to get executed". The Black man was arrested on Thursday evening on suspicion of affray and possession of an offensive ...

US shatters coronavirus record with over 77000 cases in a day

Ivan Melendez, the public health authority. Texas reported an all-time high of single-day deaths Thursday with 129 people, bringing the total to 3,561. In Ari...

10yo in stable condition after shark 'grabbed him from boat'

He is now in a stable condition. "But as he's pulled him in, it's obvious the shark's let go", abalone diver Ben Allen said. The boy's father jumped into th...

WH Document: 'Red Zone' States Should Close Bars, Gyms

According to the White House Task Force document, Sioux, Osceola, Webster, Franklin and Clarke counties in Iowa are in what the task force calls in the "red zon...

Coronavirus: Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for the second time

Since being diagnosed with Covid-19, Bolsonaro has remained in isolation at the Palácio da Alvorada, the official residence of the Presidency. Bolsonaro, who ...

Record increase in Covid-19 related deaths

Over 35 and a half thousand cases have been recorded in KZN, over 118 000 in Gauteng, the worst affected province and almost 83 000 in the Western Cape. The num...

U.S. aircraft carriers return to South China Sea amid rising tensions

The United States deployed a quarter of its carrier fleet to the Pacific a month ago amid soaring tensions with China over Hong Kong, coronavirus , trade and B...

Bharat Biotech commences human trial of COVAXIN at PGI Rohtak

Bharat Biotech got the country's drug regulator's approval to start clinical trials of its anti-Corona vaccine Covaxin recently. In the phase of trials, the ...

Zydus Cadila plans to complete trials of COVID-19 vaccine by March

Dr Dhruva Chaudhry, State Nodal Officer (Covid-19) and co-investigator of the project, asserted that despite the fast-tracking of the human trials of the Covid ...

Ghislaine Maxwell denies sex crimes in Epstein case

Ghislaine Maxwell has secretly married but refused to disclose her husband's identity to FBI investigators, it was claimed in court. The latest: Prosecutors...

A kangaroo found hopping around South Florida was safely captured by police

One officer is heard saying: 'I am so happy I have this on bodycam. An unexpected appearance by a kangaroo led police in Florida on a chase that ended with th...

Decapitated, dismembered body of tech CEO found in NYC apartment, sources say

His head and limbs were discovered later in the apartment. The New York Daily News reports the suspect was wearing a "ninja outfit". He knew what he was doi...