US Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said the Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene is “deeply unwell” after their confrontation in the halls of Congress. The incident happened earlier this week as both women left the US House of Representatives. Greene followed Ocasio-Cortez, yelling at her and accusing her of supporting “terrorists”. The Democrat did not […]
One of the victims of the supermarket stabbing has been discharged from hospital as three others continue their recovery. The Otago Daily Times understands the person released from hospital is a female Countdown staff member. A Southern District Health Board spokeswoman said the other victims — believed to be the supermarket store manager, a Corrections […]
An £18.5million lottery prize winner may have washed the chance of a massive fortune down the drain. A woman told workers at the store which sold her the ticket that she put it in her trousers – and it was destroyed in the laundry. The shop boss said a surveillance video showed that the woman […]
The detective in charge of the original Fred West investigation has told how missing teenager Mary Bastholm haunted their work from the beginning. Former DSI John Bennett, of Gloucestershire police, was the man given the daunting task of piecing together Fred and Rose West’s decades of evil as the bodies began to pile up at […]
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A fake lottery winner who swindled nearly £10 million from a bank has been jailed. Brazil's Federal Court sentenced Marcio Xavier de Lima and five others for cheating the Caixa Economica bank, which operates the country's largest lottery retailer network, out of BRL 73,094,415.90 (£9,787,342). De Lima passed himself off as a winner of the […]
A mum allegedly disembowelled her baby son and stabbed her daughter dozens of times while "into witchcraft", US reports say. Sarah Ganoe, 35, was arrested after 10-month-old Zell Howard was pronounced dead at the scene. Her daughter, eight, was rushed to hospital with at least 50 stab wounds from a pocket knife, police said. Neighbour […]
MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) – A team of palaeontologists in Mexico have identified a new species of dinosaur after finding its 72 million-year-old fossilised remains almost a decade ago, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (Inah) said on Thursday (May 13). The new species, named Tlatolophus galorum, was identified as a crested dinosaur after 80 […]
As the United States and Egyptian mediators headed to Israel to begin de-escalation talks, the antagonists were weighing delicate internal considerations before agreeing to discussions on ending the violence. But even before the mediators got to work, Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to have calculated that brute force was required first. Early Friday, […]
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern clarifies Ashley Bloomfield’s comments on returning to alert level 2.5
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has shut down the idea that New Zealand will return to life under Covid-19 alert level 2.5 when the borders open. It comes after director general of health Ashley Bloomfield yesterday floated the idea that opening up the border to vaccinated tourists could require Kiwis to return to alert level 2.5. […]