The murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart by Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik is spotlighted on The Final Scream on Investigation Discovery. Stoddart was a thriving 16-year-old junior at Pocatello High School in Pocatello, Idaho, when her life was tragically cut short on September 22, 2006, by two people who she called her friends. While Stoddart was house-sitting for a relative, […]

ALGIERS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Algerians packed central Algiers to capacity on Friday to challenge President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s 20-year-old rule in the biggest protests in the capital in 28 years. While the demonstrations were mostly peaceful, police used tear gas to block the road to the presidential palace and also used it in several other areas of the […]

Teenage thugs who beat an angler, 48, to death with a plank of wood after he complained about them being noisy and then joked about being on the run for murder are facing prison Scott Wilkinson battered to death by Lenny and Shane Crawt and their cousin Mr Wilkinson, 48, had complained that the thugs were making noise and mess  […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will not follow Britain’s lead in declaring Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization, a senior official was quoted as saying on Friday, a decision that may fuel tensions with Saudi Arabia and the United States. Minister of State Niels Annen told weekly news magazine Der Spiegel that the Shi’ite Muslim Islamist movement remained a relevant factor in […]

ROME (Reuters) – China’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure plan could be a good opportunity for Italy, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Friday, confirming that he might sign an accord with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month. Xi is due to visit Italy from March 22-24. Conte told a foreign policy seminar that he also planned to attend a […]

Good morning! It’s International Women’s Day, and I’ve been reading a new book about women who changed the world with food, full of bite-size introductions to more than 100 inventors, scientists and rumrunners, among them the poet and author Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, the restaurateur Leah Chase and the actor-turned-author Madhur Jaffrey. It’s called “A Woman’s Place” by Deepi Ahluwalia and Stef […]

Fed up Paris locals look to BAN Instagrammers who flood their cobbled street to take ‘perfect’ social media photos Paris’s Rue Cremieux attracts thousands of Instagrammers to its colourful street Social media users eager to strike a pose in front of the pastel-coloured houses Residents are now demanding that the city council install gates on the street  Disgruntled residents of a […]

Cops have spent more than two years investigating the crash and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) found in March 2017 that the pilot, Andy Hill, had been flying too low and too slow. Here's what we know about the tragedy… What was the Shoreham air crash disaster? Eleven men died when a vintage single-seater Hawker Hunter jet failed to […]

President Trump said Friday morning he felt “very badly” for Paul Manafort, but that he has not discussed a pardon for his former campaign manager, who was sentenced to 47 months in prison. “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort,” the president told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing on a trip to survey tornado […]