DUBAI (Reuters) – Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani – the chief of Iran’s hardline judiciary who has been blacklisted by Washington – was named on Sunday as the new head of the powerful Expediency Council, state television reported. The council is intended to resolve disputes between parliament and a watchdog body, the Guardian Council. Larijani, 57, was appointed by Iran’s Supreme […]

Authorities say the suspected attacker was wounded in a firefight with police before turning gun on himself. A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after Mass on Tuesday, killing four worshippers and wounding four more before taking a bullet in the ribs in a firefight with police and then shooting himself in the head, authorities said. The […]

Journalists from Myanmar, Philippines, Saudi Arabia and a newspaper in the US named as 2018’s ‘Guardians’ of truth. Time magazine has named a newspaper and four journalists, including Washington Post’s murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its Person of the Year. The Capital Gazette in the US state of Maryland’s Annapolis, two Reuters reporters  Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Philippine […]

Deal will cover 8,576 people detained by the Houthis, including teachers and children, and 7,487 Houthi fighters. Rimbo, Sweden – Yemen’s warring sides have agreed terms on a large-scale prisoner swap with more than 16,000 detainees expected to be released early next year. After a closed-door meeting at peace talks in Sweden, which concluded with handshakes, hugs and kisses; Askar Zouail, a member of […]

Sepsis death storylines in Call The Midwife and other shows resulted in 20,000 calls to BBC helpline, it emerges after mother whose son died from disease gets New Year MBE Storylines about sepsis in Call the Midwife and The Archers prompted calls  Roughly 15,000 Archers listeners called BBC’s helpline in February and March   More than 5,000 Call the Midwife viewers […]

Huawei’s CFO was arrested on a US warrant in a case that has frayed ties between China and North American countries. A court in Canada has granted bail to a top executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei while she awaits an extradition hearing, 10 days after her arrest at the request of the United States sparked a diplomatic dispute. Meng […]

The widow of a slain Philadelphia cop said Sunday that she’s “absolutely outraged” a former Black Panther has been granted a new appeal because a former district attorney was among the judges who upheld his 1982 murder conviction. Maureen Faulkner blasted the decision by Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker, who last week ruled that the “slightest appearance of bias […]

Ten-year-old Sri Lankan pupil is among first to be given scholarship to school Mail readers paid to rebuild after it was destroyed by Boxing Day tsunami The CWW Kannangara School in Galle, Sri Lanka was destroyed by the tsunami It was rebuilt thanks to the generosity and fundraising of Daily Mail readers   Sithumi Dhananjana, 10, is the first pupil to […]

Marvel fans are beginning to freak out after noticing that Hugh Jackman’s list of films on Google included Avengers: Endgame. Could Logan himself be appearing in the upcoming Avengers film, or was this some sort of algorithmic accident? It’s likely the latter, as Marvel doesn’t fully own the rights to the X-Men just yet, and is only expected to fully […]

A lion was shot dead today after it escaped from its enclosure at a US nature reserve and killed a worker. The incident happened when an animal keeper was cleaning the lion’s enclosure at the Conservators Center in Burlington, North Carolina. The lion managed to leave a locked area and “quickly” killed a worker. The animal was shot dead, which […]