Saturday, April 27, 2024

World

300 Nigerian inmates escape after suspected Islamist raid

Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official...

815 hit by vomiting bug at Stuttgart spring festival

A norovirus outbreak at a festival in south-west Germany has affected more than 800 people. They caught the vomiting...

King Charles to resume public duties next week

Britain’s King Charles III will resume public duties next week following “a period of treatment and recuperation,” Buckingham Palace announced...

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned in New York

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction in New York has been overturned, on the basis that...

Russian deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov accused of taking bribes

A Russian deputy defence minister has been accused of taking bribes and remanded in custody by a court...

Boston bomber sentenced to death

BOSTON (AP) – A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a “kid” who...

Latest self-driving Google car heading to public streets

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - The latest version of Google's self-driving car - a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal or steering wheel...

Nick Fradiani is American Idol winner

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Nick Fradiani is the latest winner of American Idol.The 29-year-old rocker of Guilford, Connecticut, bested soulful 22-year-old vocalist Clark Beckham...

Man arrested near White House over drone

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal law enforcement official says a man has been arrested after trying to launch a drone outside the White House...

Amtrak train in deadly wreck was speeding, but why?

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Federal investigators have determined that an Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people, was careening through the...

Lawyers give closing arguments in marathon bomber’s trial

BOSTON (AP) - Prosecutors and defence attorneys on Wednesday made their final appeals to the jury that will decide the fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev...