The Italian authorities have arrested a suspect involved in the murder of a Nigerian man in Italy, Ogochukwu Alika. Alika, a physically challenged man, was beaten to death with his crutches by the unnamed attacker while people watched and recorded the incident with their phones. Giving an update on the...... more
A US drone strike in Afghanistan has killed Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who became the leader of al-Qaeda following the killing of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011. Confirming the report, President Joe Biden of the US described the death of al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, as a huge...... more
Kayla Bergom, 27, faces three counts of sexual misconduct and six years of jail She is accused of having sex with an unidentified male inmate, 29, several times between September 2020 and April 2021 A female employee at an Iowa prison has been arrested after allegedly having sex with an inmate multiple times...... more
Alika Ogorchukwu, 39, was beaten to death by Italian man Filippo Ferlazzo, 32 A bystander who filmed the horrific moment a father-of-two was attacked by a ‘male customer’ has sparked outrage after no one stepped in to help save him. Police in Italy have arrested a 32-year-old man following the murder of...... more
President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, his administration announced, saying the 79-year-old leader was experiencing “mild symptoms” and would carry out his full duties while isolating at the White House. “He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms,” the White House said in a...... more
• She let them into her backyard and they dragged her out with them while her son was asleep upstairs A 46-year-old woman from North Carolina has been mauled to death by a pair of pit bulls she was dog sitting in a brutal attack. Trena Peed let her dogs out early on...... more
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to step down next week, the country’s parliamentary speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, has said. The announcement came hours after protesters stormed the president’s ad official residence to vent their anger over the country’s severe economic crisis. Protesters later broke into Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe...... more
PHOTO: Demonstrators protest inside the President's House premises, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 9, 2022 [Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters] Thousands of protesters have stormed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence in the capital of Sri Lanka. Demonstrators from all over the country marched to...... more
Bobby Crimo aka Awake the Rapper, 22, is suspected of killing six people during a July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, in the outskirts of Chicago The man suspected of killing six people and wounding more than a dozen others during a July 4th parade in Highland Park is a Donald...... more
At least 46 people, believed to be migrants, have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas. A fire official said 16 people including four children had also been taken to hospital. The survivors were "hot to the touch" and suffering from heat stroke and...... more
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Monday shared video footage of what it said was its military destroying a Russian anti-aircraft system on Snake Island. The ministry posted the video on Twitterand wrote "[t]he occupiers lost an anti-aircraft system Pantsir (SA-22 Greyhound)." On Facebook, Ukraine's Operational Command South said "[m]ore than 10 hits have been recorded"...... more
A powerful earthquake has struck off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east. Authorities in the eastern province of Sakhalin initially issued a tsunami warning but this has now been lifted. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake was of a magnitude of 8.3, but Russian authorities estimated the size of...... more
A man is in a 'critical condition' after jumping from a bridge into the River Thames when he was Tasered three times by police officers. The man was involved in a confrontation with officers from the Met Police on Chelsea Bridge this morning and the incident has been referred to the...... more
Obinna Igbokwe, a Nigerian man resident in the United States, has reportedly shot his wife and mother-in-law before later killing himself. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s office, in a statement, said it responded to a call reporting a shooting in Aldine Westfield Road, Spring Texas, on Wednesday. It said upon arrival, officers discovered two...... more
A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on Sunday, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation. Nepal's air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers. But it...... more
...as Putin pounds Odesa with hypersonic missiles The bodies of 44 civilians have been found in the rubble of a building destroyed by Russian airstrikes in eastern Ukraine, according to officials. The civilians were inside a five-storey building that collapsed amid a bombardment in the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region in...... more
World richest man, Elon Musk, has given reason why he is okay with going to hell. Musk, who is the chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX, gave the reason on his official Twitter page on Monday, 9th May, 2022 while responding to a Tweep. The billionaire had made a disturbing...... more
Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has taken to Twitter and shared what rather seem to be a prediction about his death. Taking to the micro-blogging platform, which he recently bought for $44 Billion in the early hours of Monday, May 9, Musk sounded his own death knell about dying under...... more
Russia confirmed on Friday that it carried out an airstrike on Kyiv during a visit by the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. Russia’s defence ministry said it had deployed “high-precision, long-range air-based weapons” that “destroyed the production buildings of the Artyom missile and space enterprise in Kyiv.” The attack was the...... more
•PHOTO: Police respond near the scene of a shooting on Friday, April 22, 2022, in northwest Washington. The suspect in a shooting in northwest Washington, DC, that left four people wounded on Friday afternoon has died, DC Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee said. “The suspect that we believe is responsible for...... more
•PHOTO: Taliban fighters and medical staff stand outside the gate of a hospital as they prepare to attend to the casualties after an explosion at Imam Sahib District in Kunduz province on April 22, 2022. AFP A blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 33 people...... more
Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink satellite network 'rapidly' fought off an attempt by Russian attackers to jam the network in Ukraine, the Pentagon has revealed. An official from the US Office of the Secretary of Defense said the US military would have taken much longer to counter the attack against the SpaceX network. Starlink is a constellation...... more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost his ninth colonel in battle since launching his brutal invasion of Ukraine in February, as Moscow's losses continue to mount up. A funeral was held for Colonel Alexander Bespalov on Friday in the closed Russian city of Ozersk, according to a local announcement, which said he was killed 'during...... more
...Hundreds of desperate civilians trying to flee fighting hit More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike in east Ukraine Friday as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said. The strike was on Kramatorsk's train station,...... more
Two teenage sisters were allegedly raped by Russian troops in a small village outside Kyiv which was brutally occupied by Putin's forces for as month, its deputy mayor has claimed. Ivankiv, fifty miles north-west of Kyiv, was finally reconnected to the rest of the wartorn country thanks to a pontoon bridge built...... more
An emergency air-and-sea rescue operation was underway in the English Channel tonight after a plane with two people on board crashed after taking off in the UK. The Piper PA-28 was in a group of aircraft which was heading to the northern France resort of Le Touquet on Saturday morning. 'It...... more
At least five people have been killed in what Israeli police officials are calling a terror attack. A gunman on a motorcycle reportedly opened fire in a crowded area in central Israel in the second mass shooting this week. While the circumstances were initially unclear, there were two reported shootings at different locations...... more
A Ukrainian woman was allegedly raped several times in front of her child, just moments after her husband was shot dead in their house by Russian soldiers. The victim was allegedly sexually assaulted as her small child was in the same room of their home in a small town next to...... more
United States President Joe Biden said Monday that it’s “clear” Russia is considering the use of chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine and warned of a “severe” Western response if it chose to do so. “His back is against the wall,” said Biden of Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting that Russia...... more
Russia used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west, the defence ministry said. Russia has never before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti said it was the first...... more