LOS ANGELES: A gunman shot and critically wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies as they sat in their patrol car late on Saturday in an attack that was captured on video. Footage of the incident released by the sheriff’s department showed the suspect approaching the parked vehicle on foot […]
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LAHORE: Comments by the lead police investigator suggesting that the victim of a gang rape in Pakistan that occurred along one of the country’s most secure highways was to blame have spurred cries of outrage. Investigators say the victim left her home with her two children in Lahore and was […]
SYDNEY: A 46-year-old Australian surfer died after being attacked by a shark on a popular Gold Coast beach, the first fatal shark attack on the beach in 62 years and despite protective “shark nets” and drumlines offshore. The man was attacked at Greenmount Beach late yesterday while surfing what is […]
HONG KONG: Twelve people from Hong Kong arrested as they reportedly sailed to Taiwan for political asylum will “have to be dealt with” by mainland China, but the city government would try to provide assistance, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today. Chinese authorities arrested the 12 people on August 23 […]
SALEM: Police broke up scuffles between supporters of President Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter activists and arrested at least two people in Salem, Oregon, yesterday as protests in the region turn increasingly violent. More than 100 Trump supporters, including members of the all-male, alt-right group the Proud Boys, came […]
LOS ANGELES: A firework at a gender reveal party triggered a wildfire in southern California that has destroyed 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) and forced many residents to flee their homes, the fire department said yesterday. More than 500 firefighters and four helicopters were battling the El Dorado blaze east of […]
LONDON: British police said today they had arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a series of stabbings in the early hours of yesterday morning in the city of Birmingham left one person dead and seven others injured. The 27-year-old suspect was detained in Selly Oak area of the […]
BERLIN: German police have found the bodies of five children in an apartment in the western town of Solingen, mass-selling newspaper Bild reported in its online edition today, citing the police. Bild reported that the children’s grandmother had called police to tell them her daughter, aged 27, had killed five […]
Investigators said the shooting was related to an argument that started inside the club and then moved outside where several people fired shots. The shooting Sunday was the first reported at the nightclub since the January shooting. Four people were shot and injured Sunday at a night club […]
SINGAPORE: The harshest criminal punishment ever applied in New Zealand, life behind bars for the Christchurch mosque killer, gave justice and a relief but left a long and painful road to healing for survivors and relatives of those killed in the attack. Brenton Tarrant, 29, will die in jail under […]