Children sleep on baggage carousel at Bristol Airport as families are forced to wait more than THREE HOURS for their luggage after huge flight delays Passengers arrived late at Bristol Airport and had to wait hours for their baggage  Pictured on social media even showed children sleeping on a baggage carousel Bosses said several ‘off-schedule flights’ arriving at the time […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Many Delhi residents were forced to spend Christmas indoors this year as air quality remained at “severe to emergency” levels for a fourth day, in the Indian capital’s worst smog crisis this year. Senior officials predicted the severe pollution would last another three days due to unusually stagnant and cold air. They issued a three-day emergency […]

Six-year-old brother and sister twins are MARRIED in Buddhist ceremony in Thailand because their parents believe ‘they were lovers in past lives’ and ‘karma’ meant they were born together The young boy, nicknamed Guitar, and sister, Kiwi, were born in September 2012 Parents Amornsan Sunthorn Malirat, 31, and Phacharaporn, 30, from Thailand  Both arranged ceremony at great expense on outskirts […]

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least three people were killed when suicide bombers attacked Libya’s foreign ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday, the health ministry said. The assailants were suspected to be Islamic State militants, a security source said. The three attackers began their assault with a car bomb, damaging vehicles and buildings, and then opened fire on the ministry. Two managed […]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least two people were killed and 11 wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, a former Islamic State stronghold, the military said. Tal Afar, about 80 km (50 miles) west of Mosul, experienced cycles of sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shi’ites after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in […]

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan authorities on Tuesday collected 43 bodies from a government compound in the capital Kabul that was targeted by a suicide bomber and extremists armed with assault rifles on Monday, officials said. The attack began when the suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car in front of a government building that houses a public welfare department in […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin does not have immediate plans to meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Erdogan told reporters he would most probably meet with Putin to discuss the U.S. withdrawal from Syria. [nI7N1YP01O] Source: Read Full Article

Bangkok: Thailand's legislature has agreed to amend the country's drug law to allow the licensed medical use of marijuana, as well as the kratom, a locally grown plant traditionally used as a stimulant and painkiller. Thailand is the first country in Southeast Asia to take such action, which is also under consideration in neighbouring Malaysia. The legislation passed its final […]

York Regional Police say a 33-year-old man has died after a shooting in Richmond Hill Monday evening. Emergency crews were called to the intersection of Tiger Lily Street and Barnwood Drive, near Bayview Avenue and Stouffville Road, at around 9:30 p.m. In an update released on Twitter early Tuesday morning, police said neighbours reported hearing gunshots and seeing a man […]

Australia has offered to give assistance to Indonesia after a tsunami killed 429 people and counting, but the Indonesian authorities have said they would not be accepting any offers of assistance. The confirmed death toll from the wave jumped again on Christmas day as more remote areas to the south were opened up for the first time since it hit […]