An Egyptian soldier has been killed in an incident involving Egyptian and Israeli troops in the border area near Rafah. The Egyptian and Israeli militaries are investigating what happened. Israeli media say there was an exchange of fire, but there are few other details and no reports of Israeli casualties. Tensions between Egypt and Israel...
Kenya’s President William Ruto has come in for widespread criticism after saying the private jet he used to fly to the US last week was cheaper than using the national airline. He did not, however, say how much the jet had cost, or how much it would have cost on Kenya Airways. “The facts that...
A German military officer has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for spying for Russia. The man, identified only as Thomas H, had been a captain in the army’s procurement office when he contacted Russian embassy in Berlin and passed on secret military information. German police arrested him in the city of Koblenz in...
A newly authenticated painting by celebrated 17th Century artist Caravaggio is going on show at the Prado museum in Madrid. Ecce Homo, which shows Roman governor Pontius Pilate presenting Christ to the people, is one of only about 60 known works by the Italian master – but it nearly escaped the attention of the wider...
A mayoral candidate who had been kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico on Sunday has been found alive. It is not yet known who seized Albino Gómez or why. Mr Gómez is running for mayor for the governing Morena party in the municipality of Cochoapa el Grande, in southern Guerrero state. The campaign for Sunday’s election...
American actor Johnny Wactor has been shot dead in Los Angeles by a thief who was trying to steal a part from his car. The 37-year-old suffered fatal injuries after interrupting three men who were attempting to remove the catalytic converter from his parked vehicle. Wactor – who previously featured in the US soap opera...
Reuters A view of the damaged neonatal intensive care unit where several babies died A hospital in Indian capital Delhi where seven babies died in a fire was operating without a valid licence, police said. The fire occurred on Saturday, leading to the arrests of the hospital owner and the doctor on duty. An investigation...
At dawn on Friday 12 April, Israeli teenager Benjamin Achimeir walked out from his settler outpost in the occupied West Bank, with a flock of sheep, and disappeared. Achimeir, 14, had been living and working on a tiny farm outpost near his family’s settlement, Malachei HaShalom – one of nearly 150 Israeli settlements in the...
The pilot was able to steer clear of roofs in Sydney’s suburbs after the plane lost power mid-flight. In footage shared by local media outlet Nine, the Cessna 210 can be seen skidding across the tarmac at Bankstown Airport. Both the pilot and passenger were uninjured. Source link
Desperate villagers are digging through rubble to find survivors and retrieve bodies as Papua New Guinea continues to grapple with a landslide that is estimated to have killed at least 670 people. The collapse of a mountain side early Friday morning during heavy rain wiped out a bustling village in Enga province, with the damage...