Richmond residents who have had a luxury handbag or pair couture shoes stolen may want to check with the RCMP. Police say they’ve recovered a huge trove of luxury goods, tools and other items worth upwards of $800,000 after arresting an alleged serial burglar. “The volume of high-end handbags, clothing, shoes, watches, spirits, personal electronics and currency recovered by officers […]

The former Nazi camp guard who was deported from his Queens home in August is finally right where he belongs — in hell. Jakiw Palij, a former guard at the Trawniki camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, died Thursday in Germany at the age of 95, the BBC reported. He had been living the good life in Jackson Heights for decades, even […]

Those living in Athens awoke to the rare sight of snow as some of the city's most famous monuments became topped with white powder. Temple of Olympian Zeus and Acropolis of Athens became almost unrecognisable with the dusting of snow. Neighbouring country Cyprus was also battered by heavy rain and snow thought to be swept over from Russia and Poland. […]

A photo that an elementary school teacher in South Africa took of her classroom to soothe parents nervous about their children’s first day of school instead generated shock and outrage after it showed four black children sitting at a small table in a corner, separate from the white children seated at a larger table. The teacher at Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke in South […]

Hunter shoots his 18-year-old son dead after mistaking him for a MOOSE in Russia The teenager died from a single shot last Thursday in northern Russia The hunter was aiming his rifle in poor visibility in the Khanty-Mansiysk district He approached what he thought was a moose, but saw his mortally wounded son His father has been charged with death by […]

Double-digit temperatures have been a common theme this winter in southern Alberta. For Kevin Petersen and his two-year-old daughter Blayke, it’s a welcome change. “Other than the wind, it’s been fantastic,” he says. Petersen and his daughter are regulars to the playground in Lethbridge’s Riverstone Park. The above-average temperatures make playing a bit more fun, but with that comes additional […]

President Trump on Thursday denied any knowledge that his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared polling data with a Russian who has ties to the Kremlin’s intelligence community. “I didn’t know anything about that,” Trump told reporters outside the White House as he embarked on a trip to the southern border in Texas. The revelation came this week in court […]

The current popular vape making the rounds is the Juul – a small device that looks deceptively like a USB flash drive. Here’s why it’s really popular with teenagers. What is Juuling? A Juul is a sleek, black vaping pen that looks a lot like a flash drive but isn’t one. The device fits snuggly into the palm of your […]

Pilot Simon Moores' light aircraft went down near Errezil in the north of the country leaving his family devastated. News of the tragedy came days after sister Alex, 54, first spoke of her traumatic break-up from Bake Off star Paul, 52. Dad-of-two Simon, 62, of Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, was publicly scathing of Paul's new relationship with a barmaid 30 years his […]

Jeffrey Lendrum, 56, was sentenced to prison after he was stopped at Heathrow airport with up to $127,000 worth of rare bird eggs – including hawk, eagle and vulture eggs – strapped to his chest. (Crown Prosecution Service) A former SAS-trained soldier turned prolific egg smuggler was sentenced to three years and one month in prison after he was caught […]