Category: World

A suspected serial killer who identifies himself as ‘Hercules’ has been targeting and killing alleged rapists in Bangladesh, The Statesman reported on Sunday. Over the last two weeks, police have recovered three bodies with similar notes hanging around their necks from the Jhalakathi and Dhaka districts, the daily reported. A madressah student in Pirojpur district’s Bhandaria area reported […]

Internet giants have more than doubled the rate at which they fight hate speech online than when they joined the European Union’s (EU) voluntary approach in 2016, EU officials said on Monday. Firms like YouTube, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook are now assessing 89 per cent of flagged content within 24 hours and removing 72 per […]

A powerful blast rocked a busy market on Monday in the Somali capital Mogadishu, which is regularly targeted by Al-Shabaab terrorists, police said. “There was a strong explosion at the Hamarweyne market,” said police officer Ibrahim Mohamed. “We have no details for now but the area where the blast happened is a densely populated market.” […]

The missing plane carrying Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot has been found on the Normandy coastline, investigators said on Sunday. Sala, 28, was travelling from France to join up with his new club, Premier League side Cardiff City, in a light aircraft manned by David Ibbotson on January 21 when it disappeared close to […]

Five people died and two others were injured after a small plane apparently came apart, raining debris across a Southern California neighbourhood and igniting a house fire before landing in a backyard, authorities said on Sunday. The male pilot, who was the only person in the twin-engine plane, and four people in the Yorba Linda […]

Australia’s military has been deployed to tackle devastating “once-in-a-century” floods that have inundated homes, schools and airports in the country’s northeast, forcing hundreds to flee and bringing crocodiles onto the streets. The Australian Defence Forces delivered 70,000 sandbags, deployed amphibious cargo vehicles and helped pluck flashlight-wielding residents from their rooftops Monday, as monsoon rains drenched […]

Pope Francis landed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday for the first ever visit by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula — the birthplace of Islam. The pope touched down in Abu Dhabi for the 48-hour trip during which he will meet leading Muslim clerics and hold an open-air mass for some 135,000 Catholics. Pope […]

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Russia was suspending its participation in a key Cold War-era missile treaty in a mirror response to a US move the day before. Moscow and Washington have long accused the other of violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement, which was signed in 1987 and resolved a crisis over Soviet […]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has branded a bridge, a new ministry, a family day at the park and even the entire year of 2019 under the banner theme of “tolerance”, an elaborate effort that’s in overdrive as the country prepares to host Pope Francis starting on Sunday in the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian […]

Three times a day, a 22-year-old Indian man on a hunger strike says, he is dragged from his cell in a Texas immigration detention centre, his feet scraping the floor as he goes. He’s put on a bed where he says his arms and legs are strapped down and a group of people force-feed him […]