The prosecution has wrapped up its case against the man accused of fatally shooting a member of the Calgary Stampeders two years ago. The Crown called four witnesses Monday in the second-degree murder trial of Nelson Lugela. Lugela, 21, was charged after Mylan Hicks was shot in the chest and the abdomen in the early hours of Sept. 25, 2016, […]

A simple DNA kit has reunited a mother with her long lost daughter, who she was told died after she gave birth to her in 1949, according to reports. Tampa resident Genevieve Purinton, 88, was alone when she gave birth at a hospital in Gary, Indiana, about 30 miles southeast from Chicago, The New York Times reported. She was 18 […]

The German ace, who became Wimbledon’s youngest men’s singles champion aged 17 in 1985, and wife Lilly have agreed to split. Lawyers for the pair told Judge Sarah Gibbons that both had agreed to issue divorce petitions. They said both wanted a judge to dissolve their marriage. But the Central Family Court in London was told yesterday that there is […]

Only one in eight millennials think they will have a better quality of life than their parents, as they struggle to get good jobs after university Just 15 per cent of young people think their generation is more socially mobile One quarter of pensioners believe their generation had the best living standards  A survey of 5,000 people shows just 15 […]

'SCUMBAG' Wearing blue police-issue overalls, the 26-year-old faced Auckland District Court and stood for nearly 90 minutes just yards from Grace's dad and uncle. Tap here for more info. PUTIN FUEL ON THE FIRE Russian trolls have been accused of fuelling the Yellow Vest riots across France by sharing “fake news”. About 600 Twitter accounts which champion pro-Kremlin views have […]

Donations helping conditions at Tijuana migrant shelter SAN DIEGO – Thousands of asylum-seeking migrants from Central America are starting to pick up day jobs in Mexico as they wait for their shot at legal entry into the United States. Even though America is the ultimate goal, migrants including 20-year-old Josue Pineda understand it can take up to several months to […]

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government has announced plans to spend $30 billion over the next five years on Central American development, an initiative designed to slow migration from some of the hemisphere’s poorest and most violent countries through Mexico and toward the United States. Exact details were still pending on how the money would be disbursed, but the Mexican […]

Beef Tartare ‘the new classic’ quail egg, Easter egg radish, gem lettuce, barbecue sauce, Vancouver Island sea salt For the beef tartare: 70 g/2.5 oz beef tenderloin – fine dice2 g cornichon – fine dice2 g minced shallot25 g breakfast radish, fine dice4 g chopped flat leaf parsley2 g white anchovy filletdash of TabascoVancouver Island sea salt and fresh ground […]

KATOWICE, Poland (Reuters) – Protesters disturbed a U.S.-sponsored event promoting fossil fuels on the sidelines of U.N. climate change talks on Monday, saying attempts to rebrand coal as a potentially “clean” energy source were misleading. The event called “U.S. innovative technologies spur economic dynamism”, touting the benefits of burning fossil fuels more efficiently, infuriated campaigners and many government delegations who […]

Pedro Edmunds Paoa said Chile’s Easter Island had a “thousand” of its iconic statues, known as the Moai, “both buried, ignored and discarded” because they were unable to maintain them. He said: “Those thousand are falling apart because they are made of a volcanic stone, because of the wind and the rain. “We need global technology for their conservation.” He […]