As we have been reporting, 14 people have been found guilty of subversion – Gordon Ng, Tat Cheng, Clarisse Yeung, Michael Pang, Kalvin Ho, Helena Wong, Sze Tak-loy, Gwyneth Ho, Raymond Chan, Owen Chow, Lam Cheuk-ting, Leung Kwok-hung, Ricky Or and Winnie Yu. Some of them are quite well-known such as former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung,...
A judge in the US state of Michigan was surprised when a defendant appeared for his remote court hearing while behind the wheel. Corey Harris, who is charged with driving on a suspended license, joined the call from a moving car. “I don’t even know why he would do that,” the judge said to the...
Three black men have filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that the carrier briefly removed them from a flight after a complaint about body odour. The men, who were not seated together and did not know each other, say that every black man was removed from the 5 January flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to...
Just now Gloria Aradi,BBC News, Nairobi Joy Jeptoo/Instagram Kenyan fan Joy Jeptoo hosts popular F1 viewing parties in Nairobi Joy Jeptoo, a 24-year-old social media influencer from Kenya, spent several thousand dollars last year to attend the Formula 1 season opener in Bahrain and the final race of the season in the UAE capital, Abu...
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has rejected political pressure to remove himself from crucial election-year cases after a controversy over flags outside his homes. Justice Alito, a conservative, said in a letter to Democratic senators that the banners in question had been flown by his wife. An upside-down US flag and a pine tree,...
Azusa Police Department/ Instagram Azusa police executed a search warrant at the suspect’s home A “serial slingshot shooter”‘ who for years had allegedly antagonised residents of his California neighbourhood has been arrested, police say. The 81-year-old man is accused of firing ball bearings at dozens of local homes, breaking windows and windshields and narrowly missing...
Israel’s military says it has taken control over a strategic zone along the border between Gaza and Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that about 20 tunnels used by Hamas to smuggle weapons into Gaza had been found there. Egyptian TV quoted sources denying this, and...
Varanasi is one of the world’s oldest cities and it’s often called India’s spiritual capital. It holds even more prominence during the Indian election because it’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency. Varanasi is voting on 1 June in the last phase of this mammoth general election. Since Mr Modi became the MP in 2014, the...
10 minutes ago Farouk Chothia,BBC News, Johannesburg AFP Voters of all generations were eager to cast their ballots Votes are being counted after what is seen as South Africa’s most closely fought elections since the African National Congress (ANC) came to power 30 years ago. Long lines snaked outside polling stations across the country. One...
A volcano in southwestern Iceland has erupted, sending glowing hot lava shooting 50 metres (164ft) into the air. It’s the fifth eruption since December on the Reykjanes peninsula, near the country’s capital Reykjavik. The Blue Lagoon spa – one of the country’s most popular tourist resorts – was evacuated as a precaution. Rikke Pedersen of...