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A Thai para-athlete and former soldier shot his bride and three others before killing himself on his wedding day, police told the BBC. Chaturong Suksuk, 29 and Kanchana Pachunthuek, 44, were married on Saturday in north-east Thailand. According to reports, ...

An unidentified respiratory virus in China has already overwhelmed hospitals Experts are panicking after an undiagnosed form of pneumonia has taken hold in Beijing and Liaoning. And it has taken hold so fast, that it has already been declared as ...

Three Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers were killed in occupied Ukraine after a food delivery was spiked with arsenic and rat poison, reports say   A fourth security service operative is said to be in intensive care. The city’s ...

A rare bottle of whisky has been sold for $2.7m (£2.1m) – breaking the record for the most expensive wine or spirit sold at auction The Macallan 1926 single malt is one of the world’s most sought-after bottles of Scotch whisky. It ...

A former US First Lady, Rosalynn Carter is dead The wife of ex-President Jimmy Carter, died at the age of 96. The Carter Center confirmed in a statement that she died peacefully with her family by her side. On Friday, ...

A top Russian general and his wife have been found mysteriously dead after he criticised Vladimir Putin for his “third-rate” military Investigators have been unable to work out how highly-decorated Lt-General Vladimir Sviridov, 68, and his wife Tatyana, 72, died. The bodies of ...

Liberia: George Weah concedes election defeat Liberia President George Weah has conceded election defeat to opposition leader Joseph Boakai after a tight race, ending a presidency marred by graft allegations but helping to ensure a smooth transition of power in the once volatile African ...

El-Zakzaky’s supporters PROTEST military invasion in Gaza Followers of the Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shi’ites, yesterday, Thursday, November 16, staged a protest in Kaduna, in support of the Palestinians against the ongoing military invasion in Gaza. ...

Stray dogs have started eating the bodies of slain Palestinians which have piled up in the yard of Gaza’s largest hospital Al-Shifa, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Health has said. Hundreds of bodies are waiting to be buried as intense ...

Photos have emerged of cocaine that was found last summer at the White House — before the Secret Service executed a quick investigation into the matter without arresting a suspecy. A small baggy containing roughly one gram of the white, ...

Photos have emerged of cocaine that was found last summer at the White House — before the Secret Service executed a quick investigation into the matter without arresting a suspect A small baggy containing roughly one gram of the white, ...

Prince Harry is expected to call King Charles III as he turns 75 today But the Duke of Sussex and his family will not travel to London where his father is holding a small celebratory gathering at Clarence House this ...

Israel-Hamas war: Doctors race to save newborns Premature babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate bid to keep them alive in “catastrophic” conditions, the hospital director has warned, ...

Ex-President Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry is dead She died Monday morning at age 86. She was found in her home on the Upper East Side, in Manhattan, and the cause of death is unknown at this time, the New ...

UK PM appoints James Cleverly as new interior minister British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday appointed James Cleverly as interior minister, switching the 54-year-old from the role of foreign secretary which he had held for a year. The move, ...

UK’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been sacked Rishi Sunak has FINALLY sacked Suella Braverman after a weekend of sickening violence following the Home Secretary’s unauthorised attack on police chiefs. The PM spent the weekend weighing up whether to get rid of her ...

Fourteen migrants have been killed in Chile fire Chilean authorities are investigating the cause of a fire at a migrant settlement in the southern city of Coronel that killed 14 Venezuelans. Eight children were among the dead, Coronel’s deputy mayor, ...

Donald Trump clashed repeatedly with a judge and defended his family’s business as he testified in a civil fraud trial in New York. During almost four hours on the witness stand, the former president disputed claims that he deceived banks and ...

Chinese people have expressed alarm online after another gymnasium collapsed in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang, the second in months The cave-in on Monday night killed three people and came after days of unseasonably cold weather and snowfall. The victims’ ...

Parts of South Korea fighting bedbugs South Korean authorities are working to contain bedbug infestations that have caused concern across the country. At least 17 outbreaks have been reported in the capital of Seoul and in the cities of Busan ...

Peter Obi to address world press conference Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party at the last election, will today, November 6, host an international press conference. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Monday by the ...

A man in his 40s has been arrested after allegedly dressing up as Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi for Halloween and posting it on Facebook. Pictures posted by David Wootton show him wearing an Arabic-style headdress, with the slogan ‘I love Ariana ...

Israeli airstrikes k!ll Hamas commander, 50 Palestinians Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, k!lling at least 50 Palestinians and a Hamas commander, and medics struggled to treat the casualties, even setting up operating ...

  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel would not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and would press ahead with its plans to wipe out the group, Reuters reports. Netanyahu said all ...

Israel has urged Russia to protect “all its citizens and all Jews” after a large mob shouting antisemitic slogans stormed a Dagestan airport. Video footage on social media showed an angry crowd running through the airport in Makhachkala seeking people ...