Washington:  First they cooperated. Then they stonewalled. Their television interviews were scattershot and ridiculed, their client mercurial and unreliable. But President Donald Trump's legal team, through a combination of bluster, legal precedent and shifting tactics, managed to protect their client from a potentially perilous in-person interview during special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. His lawyers are taking a victory lap […]

Extinction Rebellion suggests group is FINALLY ready to end climate change protests after a week of misery for Londoners as activists call for ‘urgent meeting’ with police and Sadiq Khan This week’s Extinction Rebellion protests closed key routes through the capital  Group has now called for ‘urgent meeting’ with Met Police and Mayor of London Meanwhile, teen who inspired climate […]

Officials in San Francisco are promising a full investigation after a frightening video was released showing a woman getting her finger caught in a closing train door and dragged onto the tracks under the train. In the surveillance video, the woman can be seen walking down the stairs at the city’s Embarcadero station on April 12 when she tries to […]

After the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron promised to rebuild the church, a promise followed by an outpouring of pledges of money from private individuals and companies, in France and elsewhere. While long overdue and very welcome, it is also a reminder that it too often takes a catastrophic accident like this to elicit […]

‘We’re desperate to get him out of that dark river’: Sister launches search for missing brother near Tyne Bridge and tells dozens gathered to ‘look towards the water’ Alex Johnson of Chester-le-Street, Durham went missing Tuesday Morning   The 24-year-old is believed to have fallen from Tyne Bridge in the early hours Family and friends are asking people to help search […]

London: More than 700 climate change activists blocking roads at some of London's most famous landmarks have been arrested over the past six days, police say. The protests, organised by climate group Extinction Rebellion, have for several days disrupted travel through parts of central London, including at Oxford Circus, Marble Arch and Waterloo Bridge. Police arrest protestors at Oxford Circus […]

Three days of severe storms in the South and Southeast are about to give way to a nice holiday weekend for much of the country. There were 31 reported tornadoes in the South — from Texas to Virginia — since Wednesday, including 13 on Friday. The highest reported wind gust was 90 mph in Avon Pier, North Carolina, Saturday morning. […]

A man who reportedly forced a female flight attendant to assist him in a restroom died in Thailand in March due to an unspecified illness, his lawyer told EVA Air. (AsiaWire) An overweight American airline passenger who insisted that a female Taiwanese flight attendant assist him during a restroom visit on a flight from Los Angeles to Taipei in January reportedly […]

A toddler was savaged by two dingoes and suffered a fractured skull. The 14-month-old boy was in his family's camper trailer on Queensland's Fraser Island when the animals sneaked in. The trailer was parked outside the designated camping areas, according to reports in Australia. The screams of the boy being dragged away by his head woke up his dad , […]

LONDON — Police in Northern Ireland on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of a journalist during rioting in the city of Londonderry. The men, aged 18 and 19, were detained under anti-terrorism legislation and taken to Belfast for questioning, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said Saturday. No further information was immediately given. Lyra McKee, […]