New Zealand police will charge a 26-year-old man with the murder of missing backpacker Grace Millane. They had previously been speaking with him over the disappearance. He will remain in Police custody until Monday morning when he will appear in the Auckland District Court. The charge comes after police confirmed Millane's disappearance was being treated as a homicide at a […]

ROME/VENICE (Reuters) – Italy’s Economy Minister Giovanni Tria said on Friday he would not resign and dismissed newspaper reports that he was on the verge of quitting amidst talks with Brussels over next year’s budget. Speculation over Tria’s possible departure has been rampant since September, when he first tried and failed to limit the government’s spending plans. The European Commission […]

Mother who tried to sell her 13-year-old daughter’s virginity for £19,000 to an undercover policeman posing as a wealthy paedophile is jailed for four and a half years in Russia Irina Gladkikh – a former beauty contestant – was caught in a police sting  Policeman posed as businessman who’d pay £19,100 for sex with her daughter Gladkikh, 35, had obtained […]

Judge blasts ‘aggressive’ nightclub boss who ‘turned into Hannibal Lecter’ when he tried to offer woman cocaine in exchange for sex on his desk as he jails him for 21 months Darren Pinches, 52, approached woman in Browns at the Quay bar in Worcester He called her ‘b****’ and demanded she got undressed after clearing office desk Pinches jailed for […]

The remains of a Pearl Harbor sailor from Brooklyn may finally make it home nearly eight decades after his death — thanks to modern technology, authorities said on the anniversary of the attack. Navy seaman Walter Foley — who was killed at age 18 during the Japanese military strike exactly 77 years ago Friday — was identified as part of […]

WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey was grilled for more than six hours Friday behind closed doors at a congressional hearing – but Republicans are calling him back for more. “We had more questions than we had time,” said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Comey agreed to return Dec. 17, but questioned what […]

A sheriff’s deputy who died in a mass shooting at a Southern California bar was shot five times by a gunman who massacred 11 others, but the officer was killed by friendly fire, authorities said Friday. Sgt. Ron Helus was fatally shot in the heart by a California highway patrolman who had joined him in a firefight with the gunman […]

Man shot dead at a home north of Sydney – with terrified residents forced into lockdown A man, believed to be aged in his 20s, has been shot dead in a garage The victim was found shortly after 4pm after neighbours reported gunfire  The street has been forced into lockdown as homicide squad officers investigate  A man has been shot […]

Saeed Noori injured 17 people when he rammed his mother’s vehicle into pedestrians on 21 December last year in Melbourne. One of the casualties, 83-year-old Antonios Crocaris, died in hospital eight days later.. The 33-year-old, who is now an Australian citizen after arriving in the country as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2004, faces a life sentence after entering his […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French retailers have lost around 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in revenue since the start of the “yellow vest” protests in the country last month, the French retail federation (FCD) told Reuters on Friday. The federation, which regroups large supermarket groups like Carrefour or Casino, has warned that the protests that started on Nov. 17 could spoil […]