Body camera footage was released on Tuesday of a 26-year-old man who died in police custody after officers in Alameda County, Calif., pinned him facedown on the ground for five minutes. The footage from the Alameda Police Department shows the man, Mario Arenales Gonzalez, becoming unresponsive while in handcuffs and police officers quickly beginning chest […]
A black man who died during an attempted arrest in North Carolina was shot five times by police, including once in the back of the head, his family’s lawyers say. An independent post-mortem found 42-year-old Andrew Brown Jr was killed by a bullet in the rear of the skull as he drove away from sheriff’s […]
MONTREAL (REUTERS) – The province of Quebec on Tuesday (April 27) reported Canada’s first death of a patient from a rare blood clot condition after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Canada has reported at least five cases of blood clots following immunisation with the vaccine, but public health officials maintain the benefits of the AstraZeneca […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Senate narrowly confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee, Colin Kahl, to be the Department of Defence’s top policy adviser on Tuesday (April 27), ending a bitter confirmation battle with Republicans. The Senate voted 49 to 45 to confirm Kahl, 49, who served as national security adviser to Biden when the Democrat […]
A US serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” has admitted to murdering two teenage girls in 1974. Richard Cottingham admitted kidnapping and raping the pair and murdering them in a hotel room a few days later. Cottingham pleaded guilty to killing 17-year-old Mary Ann Pryor and 16-year-old Lorraine Marie Kelly in August 47 years […]
A US serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” has admitted to murdering two teenage girls in 1974. Richard Cottingham admitted kidnapping and raping the pair and murdering them in a hotel room a few days later. Cottingham pleaded guilty to killing 17-year-old Mary Ann Pryor and 16-year-old Lorraine Marie Kelly in August 47 years […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Joe Biden hailed the “stunning” progress that the United States has made in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, as he addressed the nation from the White House on Tuesday (April 27). “While we still have a long way to go in this fight, a lot of work to do in […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video Travelers on standby for a flight got into a literal fight over the last seats on a plane over the weekend – and the punches and kicks were caught on video by a bystander. The brawl broke out near gate […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The space race between the world’s two richest men went into hyperdrive on Tuesday (April 27) after Tesla chief Elon Musk took a swipe at Jeff Bezos’ attempt to challenge a major Nasa contract. The two billionaires, who have been trying to launch long-range orbital rockets, were competing for a coveted contract […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have called for the world to be given equal access to Covid vaccines, something the couple said would ‘restore faith in our common humanity.’ Issuing a statement as they signed up to chair a LA event in support of vaccines, the Sussexes said: ‘Over the past year, our world has […]