Category: News

A Russian-German “fake heiress” has been found guilty by a jury in New York of swindling hotels, banks, restaurants and wealthy friends out of over $200,000 (£155,000). Anna Sorokin, a 28-year-old magazine intern, managed to convince New York’s elite into lending her money and supporting her lifestyle. Clad in Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, she […]

A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the US outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base there during a thunderstorm, injuring 21 people. There were no reports of fatalities or critical injuries. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office […]

British vegan footwear brand Butterfly Twists has collaborated with Oscar winning-actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on an affordable footwear collection. The exclusive partnership is with the actresses lifestyle brand, Casa Zeta-Jones and marks her first expansion into footwear. Casa Zeta-Jones x Butterfly Twists has launched with a limited edition collection this month that will be available in […]

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner says Alex Albon “had the job done” when Lewis Hamilton pitched his driver into a spin in the Austrian Grand Prix. Albon clashed with the Mercedes driver in the closing stages of the opening round of the 2020 F1 season. With 20 laps to go, the Red Bull driver […]

Qatari state-funded broadcaster Al Jazeera suspended two journalists on Sunday over a video they produced claiming the extent of the Holocaust was being misrepresented by Jews. The clip, posted by Al Jazeera’s online AJ+ Arabic service, claimed “the narrative” that the Nazis killed six million Jews was “adopted by the Zionist movement”. Images of the […]

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhinoceros has died, an official said on Monday, dashing efforts to save the critically endangered species in the country. The rhino, named Tam, was about 30 years old and lived at a wildlife reserve in Sabah state on Borneo island since his capture in 2008, Christina Liew, state minister for tourism, culture and environment, […]

Britain accused Sudan’s military rulers of an "outrageous" attack on the country’s pro-democracy protest movement after security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters in Khartoum.  At least 30 people were killed and 118 wounded when uniformed men using live ammunition, tear gas, and batons attacked and cleared a protest camp in Khartoum early on Monday […]

Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, made clear on Monday that she would move forward with a controversial law allowing extradition to mainland China even after an estimated one million people protested over the weekend. “I have not received any instruction or mandate from Beijing to do this bill,” she told reporters. “We were doing […]

Thousands of protesters laid siege to the Hong Kong Chief Executive’s office on Monday in the latest escalation of a long-running standoff with the government over a controversial new extradition law. The mostly young demonstrators closed down a main road near the city’s waterfront as they stood outside Carrie Lam’s office and called for her […]

It was the biggest battle fought on African soil since the Second World War: a titanic clash in a civil war that left swathes of Angola covered in landmines and devastated the country’s once thriving wildlife.  Thirty years on, the battlefield of Cuito Cuanavale in southeastern Angola is at the centre of a plan to bring […]