The tragic boy's body was found near a dump in Germiston, South Africa, less than a mile from his home on Monday. His alleged child killers confessed to tying the boy up with rope and beating him to death with stones before tossing him off the edge of the waste land. The toddler's family reported him missing on Saturday after […]

When Donald Trump spoke with Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg on Tuesday to get assurances about the safety of the 737 MAX plane that crashed in Ethiopia, he wasn’t talking to a stranger. The U.S. president, who owned his own airline, Trump Shuttle, from 1989 to 1992, is an aviation enthusiast. Before becoming president he had his own private jet and […]

SINGAPORE/DUBAI (REUTERS) – Groundings of brand-new Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets have sent shockwaves through global aviation after a crash in Ethiopia, but many airlines are managing to keep to schedule with other jets while economic woes mean some may be grateful for a pause. The 737 Max 8 upgrade to Boeing’s best-selling jet only entered service in 2017, meaning […]

An Australian judge on Wednesday reportedly handed down a six-year prison term to a cardinal found guilty last year of committing child sex abuse more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File) An Australian judge on Wednesday reportedly handed down a six-year prison term to a cardinal found guilty last year of committing child sex abuse more than two […]

Diabetes risk rises by 21 per cent in women who have mentally tiring jobs as experts say stress hormones affect their ability to regulate blood sugar The INSERM institute in France surveyed more than 70,000 women over 22 years The study was then published in the European Journal of Endocrinology  Stress hormones are believed by some experts to make people […]

Unmarried couples who live together are more fearful of splitting up than those that have wed, study suggests Four in 10 families with unmarried parents in danger of breaking up, study says  International survey found British parents more troubled than other countries   The findings were based on a survey of nearly 16,500 parents in 11 countries Almost four in ten families […]

Beatles ‘Love Me Do’ demo worth £20,000 handed to a charity shop by unwitting owner who gave the ‘not for sale’ vinyl to British Heart Foundation Staff were shocked to uncover the demo of The Beatles’ first single It had been placed in a carrier bag with 25 other vinyls and given to the store  The record features a misspelling […]

The Government Agency had stunned her dad after declaring the hearing on the teenager’s suicide was not “a matter of wider public interest”. But  it reversed the decision after an appeal and said the family WOULD get aid to cover their costs for Molly’s inquest. Dad Ian Russell said: “I am delighted that the Legal Aid Agency has reconsidered their […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Fiji Airways and the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji on Wednesday temporarily grounded the carrier’s two Boeing Co 737 MAX planes, following two fatal crashes involving the aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The plane tracking website Flightradar24 says the aircraft are the 737 MAX 8 model. The airline and the authority said in a joint statement that […]

TAKTSER, China (Reuters) – It may have been six decades since the Dalai Lama fled into exile, but in the isolated mountain hamlet where he was born, he remains very much on the minds of devotees and Chinese authorities alike. On the northeastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, Taktser, in Qinghai province, where the Dalai Lama was born in 1935 […]