Desperate student, 21, who faced being kicked out of university over unpaid £21,000 tuition fees was saved when his best friend’s father stepped in to pay the full amount George Okoro was first to attend university in his family but struggled with bills Received the huge fee demand months before graduating so set up crowdfunder Astonished to find best friend’s […]

Mother nearly chokes her 16-month-old baby to death when her long hair became wrapped around his neck like a noose as they slept Emma Chipili, 35, was asleep with her baby when she woke to find him choking Her long brown hair had tightly wrapped around 16-month-old Lincoln’s neck  When she woke in a panic, he attempts to free her […]

Carol Boardman, 75, was struck by Liam Rosney's Mitsubishi pick-up truck on a mini-roundabout in Connah's Quay, North Wales, in July 2016. Rosney, 33, had been on the phone to his wife Victoria at the time of the collision and network data showed four calls between them in the run-up to the crash. The last call was terminated four seconds […]

Fiction film featuring a Hindu queen and a Muslim ruler to screen after court rejects right-wing groups’ challenge. India’s top court has rejected a bid to ban a Bollywood film featuring a Hindu queen battling a Muslim ruler, allowing for the fictional period drama to be screened across the country. Right-wing Hindu and caste groups had protested against the release […]

Qatar alerts the UN secretary-general to a second infringement of its airspace by the UAE as GCC crisis continues. Qatar has filed a new complaint with the United Nations, reporting a second violation of its airspace by a United Arab Emirates (UAE) jet in recent weeks. The “military airlift”, which was travelling from the UAE to Bahrain, entered the airspace […]

The US president prominently abandoned the Paris Climate Agreement and used his executive power to dismantle existing environmental regulations in the US. In his first year in power, President Donald Trump has stripped away many Obama-era environmental policies. His announcement last June that the US would pull out of the Paris Agreement in 2020 met with global disapproval and left […]

Christopher Twigg, 20, who played for the Thai rugby team, was accused of sexually assaulting the Durham student while wearing a tutu after a uni night out. But in a legal twist, he was given the option to make amends as his trial was due to begin without admitting his guilt. Twigg, his alleged victim and lawyers in the case […]

Donald Trump’s presence at the World Economic Forum has garnered protests from the public and pointed comments from world leaders like India’s Narendra Modi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned against “threats to global civilisation” in his opening address at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. At the centre of this year’s summit is the debate over the growing […]

Australia is known for its tough stance towards refugees, particularly those who arrive by boat. But is this one aspect of Australian immigration policy overshadowing the country’s largesse and hospitality? Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers seeking to reach the country by boat has earned it the condemnation of humanitarian groups. But that hides another picture; per capita in 2016, Australia […]

UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three days after proclaiming himself Venezuela’s head of state, Juan Guaido wrote to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asking for help in tackling the country’s urgent humanitarian crisis. But Venezuela’s seat at the 193-member world body is held by President Nicolas Maduro’s government and Guterres is unable to ramp up a humanitarian response in Venezuela […]