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 […]

David Ibbotson's body has not yet been found after the doomed plane crashed over the Channel last month. Cardiff City striker Sala's body was recovered on February 6 and an inquest showed he died from "head and truck" injuries. Mr Ibbotson's daughter Danielle set up a Go Fund Me page in a bid to secure £300,000 to hunt for her […]

The woman scrambles across the floor as blood cascades down her cheeks while she is viciously attacked in the Dublin convenience store. Meanwhile her sobbing daughter can be heard screaming "mum" as they try to flee in sickening footage. The distressed daughter then yanks the woman away from her assailant's clutches and drags her across the aisles on her back. […]

Days after President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin wouldn’t back away from a second “Cuban Missile”-style crisis, Russian state TV listed US facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike — including the Pentagon and the presidential retreat at Camp David. With tensions mounting over Russian fears that the US might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in […]

Couple sell £135,000 house and quit ‘unbearable’ day jobs to travel 80,000 miles through 21 countries from Alaska to Argentina taking in Bolivia, Peru and Panama on trip of a lifetime Lisa Morris, 38, and Jason Spafford, 49, sold their house in Nottingham and put all their belongings in storage  They have slept under stars in Mexico, trekked under waterfalls in […]

The species has a fearsome reputation as one of the few British breeds capable of inflicting a painful bite to humans — but is there really anything to be afraid of? What is the false widow spider? Are they in the UK? Steatoda Nobilis – commonly known as the false widow spider – is native to Madeira and the Canary islands, […]

Bloodied grandmother, 58, who stabbed man she met on Plenty of Fish in row over TV volume in her third knife attack is jailed for 18 months Margaret Parsons, 53, stabbed her 61-year-old lover on Christmas Eve last year Her partner pulled a knife on her and yanked out a clump of her hair in a late-night row. She stabbed […]

Known by her doctors as 'Xiao Ju', the patient had her first procedure at a hospital in Central China’s Hubei Province at the age of 21. Since then – the same year she began dating her current boyfriend – she has undergone an average of three abortions a year. In China, unmarried women are still heavily penalised for having children […]

Kim Jong-un impersonator is DEPORTED from Vietnam ahead of North Korean leader’s arrival in the country Howard X, from Hong Kong, was questioned by police in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi  The impersonator was told by airport authorities that his passport was ‘invalid’  He and fellow comedian Russell White had organised a fake summit in Hanoi when they were questioned by police Vietnam […]