A man sexually violated a corpse on a New York City subway train after stealing from the body, becoming the second of two people to rob that particular dead person, authorities said recently. One of the more grotesque US crime stories of late unfolded on a southbound R train near the Whitehall Street station in…
The National Trust has banned coaches from one of Britain’s most popular beauty spots in an attempt to reduce the growing numbers of people visiting the site. Up to 600,000 people a year visit Birling Gap which is part of the Seven Sisters cliffs in East Sussex on England’s south coast. Local people hope the…
Senior UK police officers have called for the government to ban children under 16 from social media, amid claims the platforms are “fuelling and enabling” crime. In the most recent development in the moral panic that has gripped the media since Netflix’s Adolescence was released, four of the most senior policing figures in the country…
Prince Harry has said he is “exhausted” by his lengthy legal battle to reinstate his police protection. According to the Daily Telegraph, Harry believes that his UK security was removed to “force” him “back into Britain and establishment life”. He was prompted to sue the Home Office but said he had been “overwhelmed” by the…
Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on Friday. Mexico is looking for alternatives to comply with the 81-year-old water-sharing treaty with the US, Sheinbaum said…
A British man was shocked to discover that a photo of his tattoo was included in a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to identify alleged members of a notorious Venezuelan criminal gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA). Earlier this week, 44-year-old Pete Belton, who lives in the English county of Derbyshire, told the…
Strong winds caused havoc in Beijing and parts of northern China on Saturday, forcing hundreds of flights to be cancelled, attractions to close and rail lines to be suspended, state media said. The powerful winds stemmed mainly from a cold vortex system formed over Mongolia that was moving east and south, sweeping across northern China…
Rick Thorburn, the Queensland man who was serving life in jail for the murder of 12-year-old foster child Tiahleigh Palmer, has been found dead in his cell. Queensland Corrective Services confirmed he had died in his Woodford Correctional Centre cell on Saturday. “The 64-year-old man was accommodated in a single cell and was found unresponsive…
A cyclone is likely to form off the northern coast of Western Australia this weekend, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has warned, as south-east Australia prepares for unseasonably warm weather. The bureau on Saturday morning issued a warning that a tropical low in the Timor Sea north-west of Darwin was moving south-west and was expected…
Donald Trump had his annual medical examination on Friday, a check-up that may give the public its first details in years about the health of a man who, in January, became the oldest in US history to be sworn in as president. “I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!” the…
