For nearly an hour, he had no idea whether she was alive and kept calling her without success. Then the phone finally connected and Yunisha answered. “Finally, my daughter received my call and I couldn’t stop myself, broke out… two relatives that were with me also cried and hugged me,” he said. Yunisha appears tearful…
Almost half of parents said they’re worried about the cost of school uniforms, according to research by the charity Save the Children and the Baby Bank Alliance network. Elise, a mum of three, has just picked up a new uniform for her son Charlie. “It’s really expensive, I’ve got three kids you’ve got to get…
A manhunt is under way after a 22-year-old woman was killed and five others injured in a shooting at a rave in Switzerland. The woman died at the scene in Aarau, police said. Those injured were four men and a woman aged between 24 and 27, all of whom are in hospital with injuries “ranging…
The EBU also found further gangs across Europe using the hawala system for criminal activity. One former money launderer previously involved in European hawala networks, whom we are calling Frank, told the EBU he had been involved in transactions totalling several hundred million euros. His first introduction to the hawala system had been at an…
British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the United States after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and one time political aide to rapper Kanye West, was deported on Friday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Yiannopoulos, “an illegal alien…
And the impacts of space weather are not just a consideration for people on Earth. In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first British person to travel into space on an eight-day mission to the Mir Space Station. She was taught where to shelter if any space weather were to hit the space station. Dr Sharman…
Venezuela’s interim president said in a statement that the agreement would have “a significant impact on our nation’s revival”. The deal calls for the development of 17 strategic oil fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels, as well as “an investment of more than $100 billion, and more than $209 billion in taxes…
The investors claim they were told that “Selena Gomez, one of the most famous women on earth, with a billion-dollar brand and a platform unmatched in social media, would be actively building the company as its head of marketing”. Gomez’s attorney Matthew Rosengart says their allegations are “vague, generalised and contradictory” and that Gomez never…
Stargazers across the globe gathered to witness a near-total lunar eclipse on Thursday night and early Friday morning. Some parts of the world had a chance to see a rare ‘Blood Moon’, when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up in the night sky. It comes just weeks after millions of people witnessed the most…
A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a Dutch-Rwandan man to life for his involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The 66-year-old, named only as Eugene N, was accused, among other things, of throwing a hand grenade into a crowd of Tutsis who were seeking shelter in a stadium. He was convicted of war…
