A teenager tried to prevent her father marrying his fiancée by having sex with him because of “misplaced love”, a court in Hon Kong reportedly heard. As her father’s marriage approached in 2008, the 19-year-old tried to change his mind, according to the South
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country will join the United States in taking concrete action against North Korea after its latest ballistic missile test. On Monday, North Korea test-fired a Scud missile into Japanese waters, the third test in as many weeks and the 12th this year – carried out in defiance of
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The first lady of United State Melania Trump wore a veil to the Vatican on Wednesday to meet the pope, but no head covering a few days earlier to meet the king of Saudi Arabia, a religiously conservative country where most women cover themselves up from head to toe. Why the difference? The answer is a
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Islamic State supporters celebrated on social media on Tuesday after a blast at a concert venue in the north of England killed at least 19 people, although the militant group has not formally claimed responsibility. British police have said they are treating the blast at the Manchester Arena at the end of a concert by
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North Korea said Monday it’s ready to start mass-producing and deploying a new medium-range missile capable of reaching Japan and major U.S. military bases there following a test launch it claims confirmed the missile’s combat readiness, providing an “answer” to President Trump’s policies. The solid-fuel Pukguksong-2 missile flew about 310 miles and reached a height
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Julian Assange says that he does not “forgive and forget”. On Friday, it was announced that Sweden has decided to drop the rape investigation into the 45-year old Australian exile, who infamously cloistered himself in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, in order to swerve the possibility of extradition from Sweden to the United
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A DRAMA teacher had an unscripted run in with the law while allegedly performing a sex act on an underage pupil in her car during the middle of the night. A Broward County judge ordered a middle school teacher to stay away from children Friday after she was accused of raping a 15-year-old boy. According
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President Donald Trump’s campaign appears to have deleted a 2015 press release calling for a halt to Muslim immigration to the United States (US) after a reporter’s question on Monday, said the Independent. During a White House press briefing, ABC’s Cecilia Vega asked Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, asked why the Trump campaign website still calls
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North Korea has threatened to launch a nuclear strike at Washington and ‘reduce the White House to ashes’. The threat was made in a 2,000 word report by the KCNA media agency which condemned United States president Donald Trump’s decision to move US navy warships into the Japan Sea. It comes amid growing tensions in the region
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Three years after their abduction, 82 girls out of 276 have been released by Islamist militants Boko Haram. The ‘Chibok’ girls were taken from north-eastern Nigeria from their homes and their families, the popular hashtag ‘Free our girls’ arose as part of the worldwide social media campaign to get the girls back. Image copyrightAFP Twenty-one
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The U.S. will conduct a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile test Wednesday, according to an announcement from the Air Force. The test launch from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base will involve an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM, and is scheduled to take place between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. PST. The purpose of the test is to
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