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Man (77) fights off ATM mugger using boxing skills

The South Wales Police spokesperson released a statement about the incident. On his manner again after withdrawing cash, he's attacked by a robber. The 77-yea...

Second death confirmed in Hong Kong

The particular destinations during his trip are not known. Licensed recruitment agencies deploying household service workers to China's Special Autonomous Reg...

Skeleton found in cave could reveal Neanderthal death rites

Researchers say the new find offers an unparalleled opportunity to investigate the "mortuary practices" of this lost species using the latest technologies. Exca...

Grace Millane's killer jailed for life over backpacker murder in New Zealand

This morning he has been led into the dock, flanked by two court security guards. "There is no reason behind this unspeakable act", he told the killer. "Grace w...

Ukrainians hurl stones at evacuees from China

Residents of a central Ukrainian town clashed with police, burned tires and hurled projectiles at a convoy of buses carrying evacuees from China's Hubei provinc...

Law enforcement couple cuts date night short to thwart armed robbery

This also was a date to remember, NPR reports . A man wearing a surgical mask and black hooded sweater pulled low over his face can be seen in surveillance...

Locust swarms invade South Sudan, threaten more misery

The locusts crossed into southern Magwi county, on the border with Uganda , Minister Anyoti Adigo Nyikwach said on Tuesday. The invasion is worsening food sh...

United Kingdom launches new point-based immigration system

Care work is highly skilled, but low paid, so falls foul of the government's arbitrary immigration threshold. The Home Office said EU and non-EU citizens ...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial to begin on March 17, says Israeli Justice Ministry

The corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will open March 17 in Jerusalem , two weeks after Israel holds its national elections. Ga...

Trump ally Roger Stone gets 40 months prison amid meddling firestorm

The judge delivered a scathing rebuke to Stone, who was convicted in November on seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering. Soon af...

'I want someone to kill me'

Quaden was diagnosed with achondroplasia - a common form of dwarfism - and in the devastating video the nine-year-old asks his mother: "Give me a knife - I wan...

Coronavirus patient numbers double overnight in South Korea

Further studies were said to be ongoing. On Thursday, Japan said two of its passengers who contracted the coronavirus on board quarantined cruise ship Diamo...

Sanders Calls Trump's Clemency for Corrupt Officials Proof of a Broken System

Senate seat". "That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence", he told reporters on Tuesday. After he was convicted in a retrial a year earlier, Tru...

Dutch court set to rule in $50bn Yukos appeal

That ruling was upheld by the appeals judges on Tuesday, who said Russia was obliged to enforce the 1994 global Energy Charter Treaty, "unless it was in breac...

Defense lawyers say they will seek French asylum for Assange

Campaigners have projected the footage of an American airstrike on Iraqi civilians, originally exposed by WikiLeaks , onto the parliament building in London, t...

U.S. border officers seize human brain shipped from Toronto

Valentine's Day is supposed to be the day that you give your heart to someone you love, yet one package intercepted on its way across the USA border in a Canada...

Man in custody after stabbing at London, U.K. mosque

A man has been arrested after a stabbing attack at a mosque in central London. Scotland Yard said he was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital,...

South Korea reports 1st death and warns of community transmission

The explosion of infections in Daegu and the neighboring region, as well as some new cases in the Seoul metropolitan area where the sources of infection are unc...

Kenan Thompson, Hasan Minhaj To Headline Next White House Correspondents’ Dinner

While Thompson will be the host at the dinner, Minhaj will be the featured entertainer in his second outing at the much-awaited event. " Kenan and Hasan ar...

Turkish Gezi park activists acquitted of terror charges in surprise ruling

The cases of seven further defendants, who are overseas and were being tried in absentia, were separated but arrest warrants for them were lifted. Kavala expe...

Trump expected to tap loyalist Richard Grenell as intel official

It oversees the 17 US civilian and military intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In August Grenell told Germany's dpa news ...

Sydney to Melbourne train with 160 passengers on board DERAILS

It is unclear how many people are injured, but Ambulance Victoria said paramedics were treating "a number of people" at the scene. All passengers who were abl...

S. Korea confirms first death of person infected with Covid-19

South Korean health officials believe that the infections are linked to a 61-year-old woman who tested positive for the virus earlier this week. "We are deepl...

Trump, Bloomberg clash on Twitter over `loser` row

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg traded jabs on social media, a photograph supposedly highlighting the height ...

Parthenon marbles `not up for discussion´ during EU…

He claimed the bloc will stick to its previous offer of an "ambitious partnership" with the United Kingdom remaining tied into a swathe of Brussels regulation...

Malaysia top officials believe pilot intentionally downed MH370: Tony Abbott

Despite the largest search in aviation history - coordinated by Australian authorities - the plane was never found. The theory that the veteran pilot, a ...

Top Pentagon policy adviser involved in Ukraine aid to resign

The Trump administration's delay in releasing the aid to Ukraine was central to the president's impeachment by the House on charges of abuse of power and ob...

Language of Afghan peace deal between Taliban and U.S. finalized

Nemat says. "The Taliban will also pledge to disassociate itself from al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist organizations", Weinbaum said. Washington's leading...

Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 2,000 Globally

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced China's expulsion of three Wall Street Journal reporters and urged Beijing to respect freedom of the press. "The...

No trade deal during Trump India visit

Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat state for almost 13 years before his Hindu nationalist party swept to power in 2014. Slum residents have told Al Jazeer...

Winter weather travel advisory in effect

Total ice accumulations up to a tenth of an inch. Residents can expect scattered showers Thursday afternoon with a mix of snow starting as early as 4 p.m., ...

A Pigeon That Can’t Fly Befriended a Puppy That Can’t Walk

Herman was rescued from parking lot of a vehicle dealership, where he was spotted sitting unmoved for three whole days. Wildlife rescues wouldn't take him in, s...

Japan refutes criticism over ship quarantine, East Asia News & Top Stories

I do not know what the next few days are going to hold for them. However, the Japanese effort to keep the coronavirus from spreading did not work as planned. ...

Police report several people shot in German city of Hanau

Those reports are unconfirmed as of yet. Official figures of the number of people killed or injured have not been released and it was not immediately clear ex...

Brave Violinist Plays Violin During Brain Surgery

Dagmar Turner, who plays violin for the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra , was diagnosed with a slow-growing glioma in 2013, after suffering a seizure during a...