A TUNISIAN terrorist sent his family a selfie outside the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice and sat alongside worshippers for 30 minutes before launching Thursday's bloody attack. Brahim Aoussaoui, 21, arrived in Europe just weeks before launching Thursday's rampage, using a foot-long knife to butcher three people inside the church. His relatives, speaking at their home in the Tunisian town of Bouhajla where […]

Buddhist meditation master, 80, whose Japanese garden is visited by 10,000 annually is jailed for six years after sexually abusing young girl at her home more than four decades ago Koji Takeuchi featured in Alan Titchmarsh’s TV series Britain’s Best Back Gardens His garden – which attracted thousands each year – made him well-known figure Now jailed after admitting to sexually […]

New Zealanders have voted resoundingly to legalise assisted suicide, although another proposal to legalise recreational cannabis appears to have been narrowly rejected. The binding referendum returned 65 per cent of votes in favour of allowing euthanasia and 34 per cent against after approximately 83 per cent of votes had been counted. Asked whether marijuana should be legalised, 53 per cent […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What Zlate Cvetanovski remembers most clearly about the day he was sentenced to a decade in jail for drug trafficking was the courtroom being packed full of the police officers responsible for locking him away. “There must have been 20 Purana taskforce detectives […]

BORIS Johnson has been given a one day deadline to respond to EU legal action over the controversial EU market bill. In what could be a defining day for Brexit trade negotiations, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's four-week window for the UK to respond to EU claims the bill was an attempt to override key parts of the […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Paris: When Catholic parishioners entered the basilica of Notre-Dame in the Riviera city of Nice on Thursday morning, it was to say quiet final prayers before France descended into a month-long lockdown to stem its raging coronavirus outbreak. Instead, at […]

MELANIA Trump hit out Joe Biden’s "empty words and promises" and blasted "hate, negatively and fear" in a Florida speech. The first lady's comments came as she spoke at a rally in Tampa ahead of her husband. "We are a country of hope, not a country of fear or weakness and we have a leader that shows us that every […]

Nicola Sturgeon admits she cannot rule out imposing nationwide coronavirus restrictions ‘in the next few weeks’ as she reveals which areas of Scotland will be hit by her five-tier local lockdowns from Monday Nicola Sturgeon announced local authority tier ratings for each part of Scotland The First Minister’s five-tier system for lockdowns comes into force on Monday But she said […]

Could YOU recognise this woman? Police ask if anyone can identify fraud suspect in blurry photo even though she is wearing an all-covering Covid visor West Midlands Police have appealed for help tracking a fraudster in Birmingham But suspect photo only gave blurry outline of woman wearing a Covid face visor It is believed she is pretending to make ‘collections’ […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Big Issue vendor Michael found facing Melbourne’s lockdown alone without his job selling the magazine so stressful he broke into hives. The 47-year-old, who has worked for the not-for-profit that provides jobs to Australia’s disadvantaged since it was founded in 1996, said not […]