The May 2 tornado outbreak comes after an extremely quiet April for severe weather. Over the weekend, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Storm Prediction Center tweeted that April 2021 saw the fewest reported tornadoes since 2000. April also had the fourth fewest tornado watches on record. There were 155 tornadoes in April across the U.S., many of them occurring […]

ANDREW Brown's family, friends, and mourners arrived for his funeral, less than two weeks after he was shot dead by cops. Social justice activist Rev Al Sharpton will give the eulogy for Brown, 42, on Monday, who was shot and killed by police in North Carolina on April 21 in his driveway. Read our Andrew Brown Jr. live blog for […]

A worker who had been fired from the Duck Creek Kitchen + Bar in Wisconsin returned to the restaurant where he allegedly killed two employees and wounded a third, authorities said. About 50 people were eating in the restaurant in Ashwaubenon, near Green Bay, at the time of Saturday evening’s shooting, Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain said at a news […]

Ex-prime minister David Cameron has ‘all but abandoned’ plans for a £750million UK-China investment fund amid rapidly cooling relationship between London and Beijing Mr Cameron had high hopes of launching £750m UK-China investment fund It would capitalise on Beijing’s ever increasing economic might But four years after first being mentioned the scheme has been put on ice  Relations between London […]

LONDON — South Africa announced Sunday it plans to end its multimillion-dollar captive lion industry and said it won’t oppose the international ban on the rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory trade. The announcement was made alongside the release of a nearly 600-page report by a special government-appointed advisory committee tasked with reviewing the country’s policies, legislation and practices related to […]

More On: hate crimes Two Asian Americans targeted in hate crimes amid disturbing NYC spike Police arrest suspect in Riverdale synagogue vandalism spree Can therapy ease the trauma of US racist attacks and systemic racism? NYPD probing two Asian hate crime attacks in Manhattan The man who allegedly terrorized Riverdale synagogues for nearly two weeks left a pile of one […]

University of Chester is slammed for charging its £280,000-a-year vice chancellor LESS rent than its students University of Chester has come under fire over plans to create an apartment for its vice chancellor and rent it to her for £28 a week less than what students pay Professor Eunice Simmons collects an annual salary and pension package of £284,533 and […]

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner IS set to be charged with rape of Irish tour rep on the Algarve in 2004 Christian Brueckner is set to be charged with rape in the next 12 weeks  Hazel Behan, then 20, was attacked and raped in her Algarve apartment in 2004 Brueckner is serving a seven-year sentence for raping a 72-year-old American […]

Millionaire trophy hunter, 68, is caught boasting how he helped to shoot 13,000 doves over four days on trip to Argentina – as pressure grows on UK government to implement long-promised ban on the deadly sport In phone call with undercover investigator, businessman Rob Weir recounted a £2,800 hunting trip Mr Weir said: ‘There were five of us – one of […]

Ex-Etihad boss swapped passport and tried to avoid 10 days in UK quarantine: Airline chief ‘boasted of ploy’… and was caught red-handed after tip-off James Hogan faces a fine of up to £10,000 after failing to declare that he had visited a ‘red list’ country Millionaire ex-Etihad Airways boss is understood to have been detained by Border Force officers at […]