Stinking rubbish piles up in Rome causing health hazard amid heatwave Rome struggling with renewed waste emergency aggravated by summer heat  Doctors warned of possible health hazards caused by overflowing rubbish bins  Waste disposal has been a decades-long problem for Italy’s Eternal City Doctors in Rome have warned of possible health hazards caused by overflowing rubbish bins in city streets […]

China builds ‘the world’s first INTELLIGENT oil tanker’: Mega vessel has a ‘smart’ system to manage its 300,000 tonnes of cargo Very large crude carrier ‘New Journey’ was unveiled in China on Saturday Its advanced controlling system is capable of mapping out sailing routes It can also plan loading processes and help save energy by five per cent  China imports […]

Warning, graphic images: Photos show father and daughter who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande Heartbreaking images of a migrant father and 23-month-old daughter who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande have been released by the AP. A harrowing image of an El Salvadoran migrant and his 2-year-old daughter lying face down on the banks of the Rio […]

A Texas school district has fired a substitute teacher after receiving a tip that she made pornographic videos that included footage recorded in a classroom. The Victoria Advocate reports investigators believe the videos were recorded last month at El Campo High School, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southwest of Houston. The El Campo School District says the teacher had worked […]

A Spanish judge has shelved a criminal probe into the Tenerife death of British killer whale trainer Amy Gerard after accepting all current evidence points to her dying by accident. Amy’s German boyfriend Dennis Kissling was told in April he would face a court quiz in a dramatic turn of events after court officials said the expat’s death was being […]

CRUEL owners who torture their pets will be locked up for up to five years under a tough new law announced on Wednesday. Dog fight organisers, farmers who neglect horses and sick thugs who abuse puppies or kittens will all be hit by the lengthy jail sentence. The new punishment for animal cruelty is a huge increase on the current […]

The twin who allegedly stabbed her sister to death in their New Jersey home claimed that her sibling was the one who tried to slice her first, sources said. Amanda Ramirez — who was charged for the fatal stabbing of her twin sister, Anna Ramirez — told detectives that her sibling lunged at her with a knife after a brawl, […]

A missing man has been described as a talking mummy after being pulled from the brink of death. Named only as Alexander, he was discovered by hunting dogs in a bear’s den a month after he vanished in the remote Tuva region of Russia. He has been rushed to hospital suffering with a broken spine after fighting the bear, according […]

A 52 year-old businesswoman met her 22 year-old future husband after texting a wrong number then chatting with the stranger who replied. Kasey Bergh, who is now 59, mistakenly texted Henry Glendening, 29, during a business trip to Denver in 2012, instead of a colleague. She asked the woman she thought was her co-worker ‘if you’d want to hang out.’ […]

BRITISH mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will be detained for five years in an Iranian jail over spying allegations. The British-Iranian was locked up in the Islamic Republic in 2016 and was denied access to medical care, here's the latest on her ongoing ordeal. Who is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe? Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a British-Iranian mum, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation […]