Thousands of people in the UK are facing a Christmas travel nightmare as strong winds led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and ferries. A Met Office yellow weather warning was in place until 9pm on Sunday from John o’Groats to Land’s End, with gusts of up to 60mph widespread and some as strong…
Facebook Oleksandr Matsievsky is now an iconic figure in Ukraine after his execution by Russian forces Ukrainian sniper Oleksandr Matsievsky was captured by Russians in the first year of the full-scale invasion. Later, a video emerged showing him smoking his last cigarette in a forest, apparently next to a grave he had been forced to…
BBC An American fighter jet has been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the US military has said. Both crew from the US Navy F/A-18 Hornet ejected safely, with one suffering minor injuries, according to Central Command. The incident came after the US carried out a series of air…
Police are investigating “horrific acts of cruelty” against 29 chickens that were found killed in the grounds of a high school in New South Wales. Police were called to Corrimal high school, about an hour south of Sydney, at about 9:30am on Sunday and discovered the chickens dead in their enclosure. The chickens were owned…
EPA German authorities are facing the public’s grief and anger in Magdeburg after an attacker used an access lane for emergency vehicles to drive into a Christmas market, killing five people and injuring more than 200. On a visit on Saturday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, ministers and regional political leaders were heckled by members of…
Reuters On Friday evening, a man ploughed a car into a crowd of shoppers at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg. The attack killed five people, including a nine-year-old child, and left more than 200 injured, with many in a critical condition. A judge has ordered the pre-trial detention of a 50-year-old…
Mozambique is on edge ahead of a ruling expected on Monday to determine the final results of October’s disputed elections, after allegations of rigging triggered weeks of protests in which security forces have killed dozens of people. The opposition presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane has threatened “chaos” if the constitutional council confirms the initial election results,…
Play video content TMZ.com Friends of Na’im Lynn shouldn’t expect any holiday cheer from the comedian … he doesn’t believe in gifting pals with presents or cards — except for one A-list exception. We caught up with the funny man at LAX, where the stand-up star explained his reasoning behind skipping gift exchanges with friends…
Two US navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea on Sunday in an “apparent case of friendly fire”, the US military said, marking the most serious incident to threaten troops in more than a year of the country targeting Yemen’s Houthis. Both pilots were rescued alive after ejecting from their stricken aircraft, with…
Victorian Liberal MPs will vote again on whether to readmit Moira Deeming to the party room after an extraordinary backflip by state leader John Pesutto. In a statement on Sunday, Pesutto announced that he had called a special Liberal party room meeting for 15 January, to vote on a motion moved by him to readmit…
