A woman who yelled "I'm going to kill you all" and tried to open the door of a plane midway through a flight has been jailed for two years. Chloe Haines, 26, was handed the prison sentence at Chelmsford Crown Court on Wednesday following an incident on board a flight from Stansted Airport on 22Read More
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Sri Lanka bans face veils after attacks by Islamist militants
Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by Islamist militants. The measures would help security forces to identify people as a hunt for any remaining attackers and their support network continues across the Indian Ocean island, authorities said.Read More
Three men jailed for sex with cow, goat, nine horses and unknown number of dogs
Three men who forced a teenager to restrain nine female horses, a cow, a goat and dogs while they had sex with the animals have been jailed for decades. Matthew Brubaker, 31, Terry Wallace, 41, and Marc Measnikoff, 34, were all sentenced to 20 to 41 years in prison on Monday after regularly abusing atRead More
Sudan’s Bashir transferred to jail notorious for holding political prisoners during his regime
Sudan's ousted President Omar al-Bashir was transferred on Tuesday evening to Kober prison, a maximum-security prison notorious for holding political prisoners during his 30-year dictatorship, two prison officials who witnessed his arrival told CNN. Several other regime figures are being held at the jail and kept separately to Bashir, who is under intensified securityRead More
Peru’s former president dies after shooting himself as police arrest him
Peru‘s former president has died after shooting himself in the head as police officers arrived at his home to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation, his family have said. Alan Garcia was taken from his house in the capital Lima to the Casimiro Ulloa hospital where doctors provided cardiac resuscitation three times, healthRead More
Sudan crisis: Protest leaders demand end of ‘deep state’
Organisers of mass protests in Sudan have told the BBC they want the full dismantling of the "deep state" left behind by ousted leader Omar al-Bashir. A spokesman said leaders of the past regime should be put on trial. Mr Bashir was toppled by the army last week after 30 years in power andRead More
Tiger Woods admits ‘special’ Masters win compares to Jack Nicklaus’ Augusta triumph in 1986
Tiger Woods could not help but draw comparisons with Jack Nicklaus' famous Masters win in 1986 as he reflected on his own historic triumph at Augusta. Nicklaus ended a six-year wait for his 18th and final major championship when he held off Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman to win his sixth Masters at theRead More
Zimbabwe to exhume mass graves
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to facilitate the exhumation and burial of victims killed in a state crackdown in the 1980s. Between 5,000 and 20,000 people in southern Zimbabwe are believed to have been killed by security forces under the rule of then-leader Robert Mugabe in what has become known as theRead More
Akufo-Addo visits Noguchi’s birth place
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ended his three-day official visit to Japan on Thursday, 13 December 2018, with a visit to Inawashiro, the birth place of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi. Dr Noguchi is remembered as the man who laid the foundation for the strong relations between Ghana and Japan, which led to formal establishment of diplomaticRead More
Ghanaians facing more economic hardship under NPP
Federal judge Timothy J. Kelly sided with CNN on Friday, ordering the White House to reinstate chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass. The ruling was an initial victory for CNN in its lawsuit against President Trump and several top aides. The lawsuit alleges that CNN and Acosta's First and Fifth Amendment rights areRead More