Traffic jams filled Southern California highways and wildfire-scarred areas were evacuated after the downpour. A mudslide shut down Pacific Coast Highway and surrounding roads in and around Malibu and neighbourhoods charred by last month's massive fire that destroyed hundreds of homes. A Southwest Airlines plane from Oakland skidded off a wet runway as it landed At Hollywood Burbank Airport, about 15 […]

Edmonton police launched their annual Holiday Checkstop program on Thursday evening. “The holidays are always a special time for friends and family coming home from around the province and country,” Sgt. Rob Davis said. “The public will see our officers working checkstops across the city throughout the holidays to help ensure everyone gets home safely.” Davis said nothing has changed […]

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Spain’s main opposition parties risk turning the Andalusia region into a “cradle of the far-right” if they rely on its support to take office, the government said on Friday, days after the surprise election of 12 far-right lawmakers to the regional parliament. Elections in Spain’s most populous region on Sunday left the main opposition, the right-wing People’s […]

Elon Musk says video of him smoking a joint PROVES he doesn’t use marijuana as it shows he doesn’t know what he’s doing and rejects claims he is ‘erratic’ Musk spoke about the September pot-smoking incident in a new interview Claimed his hapless puffs prove that he is not a regular user of marijuana Musk smoked a marijuana blunt on […]

Ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson teed off on President Trump Thursday night, saying the commander-in-chief didn’t like to read briefing papers and had to be talked out of taking actions that would be illegal. “Part of it was obviously we are starkly different in our styles,” the former ExxonMobil CEO said at a Houston fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer […]

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s electoral commission has asked the government for $28.7 million, saying that without funding to boost its “zero” budget it cannot make plans to prepare for a vote on a new constitution and later elections. Western powers and the United Nations hope Libya will hold a national election by June after a referendum on a constitutional framework […]

The parents of slain Colorado pregnant woman Shanann Watts told “20/20” in an exclusive interview that they are still grappling with how their son-in-law Chris Watts could have murdered their daughter and their two young granddaughters. “That’s the big word – Why?” said her father Frank Rzucek. “He must have snapped, because there’s nothing else I could figure out what […]

The Vatican unveiled its novel Nativity scene for Christmas in St. Peter’s Square Friday afternoon — sculpted completely out of sand for the first time. The traditional scene depicting Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus surrounded by angels, shepherds, animals and the Three Wise Men was made with over 700 tons of sand and is about 82 square feet. The […]

Police are appealing for information to find the men filmed scrapping in the street in Swansea. The bizarre clips shows the chubbier man throw a Hayemaker left hander at the skinnier man stood opposite him. However he fails to land the punch and almost loses his balance. With his T-shirt riding up his tubby waist, the man then takes up […]

The wish list was recovered from the handbag of the known shoplifter in Swindon town centre after security guards attempted to stop her stealing from Debenhams. The thief escaped and remains at large but police believe she was stealing to order in time for Christmas. One customer, called "Colleen", wanted girls' clothes aged five to six, a men's medium grey […]