KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir does little to hide his contempt for the young men and women who have been protesting for more than a month to demand an end to his three-decade rule. Addressing soldiers this month, Bashir, a 75-year-old former paratrooper who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1989, warned the “rats to go back […]

Liverpudlian Brett Bridgen, 24, used online banking to transfer money into his own account the day before jetting off to Spain. Appearing at Liverpool Crown Court last week, Bridgen was sentenced to 17 months behind bars. The court heard the defendant was jailed in 2013 for stealing £50,000 from the same granddad. Jamie Baxter, prosecuting, said Bridgen visited his granddad, […]

But very little is known about the dictator behind the military regime. Here is everything we do know. Who is Kim Jong-un? Kim is the second child of his predecessor as Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-il and his wife Kim Yong-hui. North Korean authorities have stated that his birth date is January 8, 1982, but South Korean intelligence officials believe the […]

21 people are killed and at least 50 are injured after two bombs explode outside a Catholic cathedral in the Philippines during Sunday morning mass At least 21 people were killed and dozens more injured after two huge blasts went off near a Catholic cathedral on the Philippine island of Mindanao The attack came days after a predominantly Muslim area […]

Stunning timelapse video reveals dazzling lights of California’s Yosemite Park in footage taken just after sunset as a storm clears to show the stars The footage was taken earlier this month inside the national park  As the sun sets and clouds clear the night sky reveals a rainbow of colors   Time-lapse technology allows the viewer to see what happens over several […]

It was in that moment the now 90-year-old Holocaust survivor understood he would never see her again. He told the BBC's landmark documentary The Last Survivors: "I remember standing there and thinking 'Which of the flames is my mother?'" Frank is one of a few left behind who witnessed one of history's worst atrocities first-hand. Six million Jews, millions of […]

In early 2016, a corruption scheme emerged inside the D.C. office of Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Brooklyn). One-tenth of her taxpayer-funded Congressional office budget — $120,000, or enough for eight computers for every staffer — disappeared. If Clarke had been honest and open about what had happened, she very likely would have lost reelection in 2018, when she won her primary […]

Dakota Theriot is the "prime suspect" in the deaths of his parents, Keith and Elizabeth Theriot, both 50, at their home in Gonzales, Louisiana. He is also accused of killing his girlfriend, Summer Ernest, 20, her dad Billy Ernest, 43, and her brother Tanner Ernest, 17, at their mobile home in Livingston Parish, The Advocate reported. Theriot is reportedly driving […]

Vile Stephen Chafer, now 59, sexually assaulted little Lorraine Holt before stabbing her 39 times in 1979 – and struck again despite grief-stricken Jim's warnings. The beast was freed in 2002 – even though Jim wrote dozens of heartfelt letters to the Home Office, the Parole Board, and even PM Tony Blair begging for him to stay inside. But last […]

Berlin:  Germany will spend tens of billions of dollars to end its use of coal power within two decades, if a plan agreed to  by representatives of the power industry, environmental movement, miners and local interest groups becomes official policy. The deal, hammered on Saturday out after more than 20 hours of intense, often fractious negotiating among a 28-member commission […]