Warning: Some readers may find the following story disturbing A man who sexually assaulted, beat and taunted a Halifax-area sex worker with death before she was rescued by police has been sentenced to seven years in jail. Pablo Moises Alas had no criminal history when he attacked the escort in her Dartmouth home a few weeks before Christmas 2016. According […]

Ukrainian rock band turn a broken grand piano into a 20-instrument mini-orchestra complete with a cello, drums and an organ Four-piece band Brunettes Shoot Blondes wanted to have an ‘orchestra sound’ Group found the damaged grand piano in a small town in western Ukraine They used the array of instruments to create their new single ‘Houston’  A rock band have […]

Georgina Coombs, 38, was driving her silver Vauxhall Astra in the wrong direction on the M4 when she smashed into a black BMW. Police say she died from her injuries at the scene on the westbound carriageway near Newport, South Wales. Her devastated family has now paid tribute to the mum, known as Gina, saying she will be "truly missed […]

Unemployed thug faces life behind bars after kicking mother-of-two to death in a random and unprovoked attack as she walked to work at a vets near Lakeside shopping centre A mother-of-two was killed in a random attack as she walked to work in Essex  Julie Hunt, 47, was commuting to her job to a vets near Lakeside shopping centre She […]

MIAMI — A former worker on U.S. President Donald Trump‘s 2016 campaign claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that he abruptly grabbed her by the hand and planted an unwanted kiss on her face during a Florida meeting with staff and volunteers. Alva Johnson, who lives in the Huntsville, Alabama area, contends in the federal lawsuit that Trump made the […]

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is speaking out about the Jussie Smollett case, saying his department gave the Empire actor every benefit of the doubt as they investigated his claims that two masked men attacked him in a racist and homophobic hate crime. “The entire time that we investigated the incident he was treated like a victim,” Johnson told Good Morning […]

‘All I thought about was surviving’: Woman speaks out about being raped for more than two hours after hotel staff gave a drunk man the key card to her room Cheri Marchionda was staying at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines, Iowa in 2014 She was sexually assaulted and raped by hotel regular Christopher Lapointe The hotel had given Lapointe […]

So, who WILL be leader? New Independent Group of MPs hold their first meeting to decide who will take the helm (but Chuka Umunna insists they are NOT a political party… yet) Eleven MPs meet a week after the first defections kicked off a political storm  Eight former Tories sit down with three Tories in the new centrist collective Chuka […]

VATICAN CITY  — Pope Francis’ summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, the media and ordinary Catholics outraged over a scandal that has harmed so many and compromised the church’s moral authority so much. Indeed, no sweeping new law was announced to punish bishops who cover up abuse. No […]

A television news crew was robbed at gunpoint and their armed security guard was shot on Sunday as they covered a teachers’ strike in Oakland, California, police said. The Bay Area news crew, from local CBS station KPIX 5, told responding officers just before 5 p.m. that a vehicle pulled up and two individuals got out, demanding their camera and […]