A HERO dad saved the life of his two-year-old son when he shielded him from bullets during the New Zealand mosque attacks. Zulfirman Syah was shot several times and had to undergo emergency surgery after he threw himself in front of his son Averroes, who sustained less serious injuries. Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, killed 49 people after attacking two mosques […]

A POLAR vortex snow bomb has been forecast to bury the UK this weekend as weather warnings issued by the Met Office stretch up and down the UK. Ice, snow and wind warnings are now firmly in place for the next 24 hours with up to six inches of the white stuff expected to fall across the north of Britain. […]

Photo shows the empty home stretch at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif, where racing has been canceled as the track deals an alarming number of horse deaths, now at 22.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) The alarming number of horse deaths at a California racetrack has drawn the attention of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, which has announced it was conducting […]

An attempted robbery at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas ended in a gunfight between police and the suspect late Friday. An armed man walked into the casino and approached a popular poker cage, where he demanded money, before quickly fleeing out the north entrance, Las Vegas police said in an overnight press conference. The suspect attempted to […]

Qatar’s Civil Aviation Authority says Emirati accusations are an attempt to cover up UAE’s breaches of Qatari airspace. Qatar has denied accusations of intercepting two of the United Arab Emirates’ passenger flights, the third such incident over airspace since the blockade on Doha began last summer. The UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority said on Monday that two Qatari fighter jets […]

Anti-immigrant and far-right forces have seen political gains in Italy and xenophobic violence has been making life dangerous for Italy’s minorities. Sunday’s election in Italy has seen the anti-immigrant party known as the League, formerly known as the Northern League, become a dominant force in Italian politics. Its leader, Matteo Salvini, says he’s the only possible candidate for prime minister. […]

Taliban fighters attack Anar Dara District early on Monday taking over the police headquarters as fighting rages on. Taliban fighters have taken over a police headquarters in Afghanistan’s western Farah province during an ongoing battle with the security forces as officials warned the district was likely to be taken over by the armed group. At least 20 members of the […]

Grieving protesters call for justice after funeral of 22-year-old black father of two who was shot dead by police. Civil rights activists vowed to keep the pressure up on the US government to deal with police misconduct as they attended the funeral of Stephon Clark, 22, father of two, and the most recent victim of a string of fatal shootings […]

The incident comes on the heel of a sharp uptick in far-right violence targeting refugees, migrants, Muslims and others. Athens, Greece – Propped up on the radiator next to a battered door is a half-charred plaque that welcomes visitors to the office of the Afghan Community in Greece. The door, also burned, hangs loosely from the hinges. Inside, a wooden […]

Good morning. I chased the super bloom east of Los Angeles, to Lake Elsinore, where the hills were orange with poppies in full, magnificent bloom and the skies were freckled with millions of painted lady butterflies on their way from the Mojave and Colorado Deserts up to the Pacific Northwest. The colors were really something. The precise, sunshine-yellow of a […]