CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities on Monday released a photojournalist who spent more than five years in jail after covering a 2013 sit-in that ended with security forces killing hundreds of protesters. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan, was detained in 2013 while taking pictures as security forces broke up the sit-in by supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president […]

DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) – U.S.-backed fighters have slowed an offensive to take Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria because a small number of civilians remain there, though fierce fighting continues, they said on Monday. Islamic State faces defeat in the last shred of its main territory in Syria and Iraq where it announced a “caliphate” in 2014, […]

London mayor Sadiq Khan jets off to Marrakech for a holiday with his wife just hours after fatal stabbing of 17-year-old girl – as he faces criticism for his slow response to knife epidemic Mr Khan was spotted at Gatwick on Saturday before boarding plane to Morocco It was just hours after the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Girl Scout Jodie […]

Dozy stalker is jailed for two years after being caught out dognapping his ex’s beloved Bischon Frise when she recognised picture of his own front room in his ransom note Kevin Rhowbotham met his new partner while they were both walking their dogs  Four months in he dumped her, saying children were grieving for dead mother  After telling this lie, […]

Shocking moment police officers knee an innocent father, 40, in the head as they arrest him when he tried to intervene in a row between bailiffs and the owners of a shop Geoff Boyson, 40, suffered broken ribs and cuts to head during ‘appalling’ arrest The father-one-one was charged with assault of a police officer but later cleared Footage shows police pinning […]

Russian man Savva Nikitin, 34, has also been accused of killing his wife Maria, after she found out about him allegedly "raping" their five-year-old child and threatened to tell police. Law enforcement sources in Moscow said Nikitin also wrote a message in her blood, calling her "Judas". Nikitin, a former firefighter and the son of famous Crimean author Alexander Nikitin, […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Hungarian government’s anti-immigration campaign, which attacks the European Commission, distorts the truth and the EU executive arm will respond with equal force to set the record straight, Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said. Relations between European Union institutions and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s nationalist Fidesz ruling party have soured since the 2015 migration crisis, when Orban […]

Teen Jodie was with friends at a children's play park in Romford on Friday when she was fatally stabbed in what pals said must have been a case of "mistaken identity". Police have since launched a murder investigation into the brutal attack – appealing for anyone who may have seen two males hanging around the park or running from the […]

Schoolgirl, 16, is raped, doused in petrol and torched to death ‘by her neighbour’ in latest sex attack to shock India The girl was home alone when a neighbour allegedly broke into the property Speaking to Ghazipur police before her death, the 16-year-old said he raped her He then doused her in petrol and set her on fire, local media reports […]

There’s snow escape! Worried tourists on snowmobiles have to speed away as a 2,000lb BISON charges at them in Yellowstone National Park A 2,000lb bison charges at nine snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park Terrified tourists are forced to dodge the huge animal as it runs towards them One driver has to circle round the beast when it stands in front […]