The former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) and his British partner have been arrested and are facing sex trafficking charges.Mike Jeffries, his partner Matthew Smith and the couple’s alleged middleman were arrested on Tuesday morning.The FBI and...
The government has said there will not be an apology over Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, when King Charles and Sir Keir Starmer visit the Commonwealth summit in Samoa next week.A Downing Street spokesperson had already ruled out...
Falling debris narrowly missed a group of people in a street in eastern Turkey, after it was hit by an earthquake.A 5.9-magnitude quake struck the city of Elazig in Turkey's Malatya province on Wednesday. There have been no reports of...
SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars. During this flight, the SpaceX team attempted something that had never...
The Portuguese government is to slash taxes for people aged 35 and under, in an attempt to dissuade young people from emigrating and encourage foreigners to settle in Portugal.As part of the budget presented to parliament on Thursday, the centre-right...
At least 10 firefighters have been killed in an Israeli air strike in a border area in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says.A statement said the firefighters had been “ready to go out on rescue missions” from a municipal...
ReutersFlash floods and landslides in central Bosnia-Herzegovina have left at least 14 people dead, with towns and villages cut off and reports in some places of homes being almost submerged.Some of the worst scenes were in the area around Jablanica,...
Getty ImagesMech Dara has been honoured for his work by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Mech Dara, an award-winning Cambodian journalist who has reported extensively on human trafficking and corruption, has been arrested and charged with incitement.Dara, who has...
Getty ImagesThe annual United Nations General Assembly week is always frenetic. It may be called the Super Bowl of diplomacy, but this year perhaps a more appropriate analogy is a marathon. Not since World War Two have there been so...
ReutersCanadian lawmakers are set to vote on a motion that could bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government and trigger an election, though it is unlikely to pass.Wednesday's no-confidence vote is the first in a series of similar votes...
