North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile off its east coast today, several governments have warned. An alarm was raised at 7.28pm local time when Japan’s Coast Guard announced a possible ballistic missile was launched. Authorities later said it had landed at the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), only bringing further tensions to the area. […]
A teenager who bragged about killing another boy has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Leighton Amies, 15, shouted ‘I’ve wetted your boy’ at a gang after he stabbed Tomasz Oleszak, 14, in the chest with a kitchen knife. The stabbing took place as Tomasz walked through a nature park in Gateshead last October. […]
First, the students uncovered just a skull, still sporting hair and wrapped in cotton. Then they found the body, surrounded by corn, coca leaves and seeds. Signs of a human sacrifice. Are you LGBTQIA+ and working in STEM? Metro.co.uk and New Scientist Jobs have teamed up to conduct a global survey of LGBTQIA+ experiences in […]
Two teenage boys have been charged with murder after a 16-year-old was killed at a house party. Mikey Roynon, 16, was killed in Bath at around 11pm on Saturday. It was found he died from a single stab wound. A 15-year-old boy from Dorset and a 16-year-old boy from Wiltshire have now been charged with […]
A man has been charged with assault after a terrifying dog attack which left a woman seriously injured Liam Rainy, 25, of Battersby Street, Wigan was charged with Section 18 assault and being in possession of a dog dangerously out of control He was remanded in custody ahead of an appearance at Manchester Magistrates Court […]
Two teenage boys have been charged with murder after a 16-year-old was killed at a house party. Mikey Roynon, 16, was killed in Bath at around 11pm on Saturday. It was found he died from a single stab wound. A 15-year-old boy from Dorset and a 16-year-old boy from Wiltshire have now been charged with […]
In 40 acres of Somerset’s woodland live a band of residents sustaining a £120-a-month eco-commune, where making cider and farming cows is part of daily life. The Tinkers Bubble commune is currently the communal home of nine residents, although numbers have fluctuated since the commune opened in the mid-90s. There are eight self-built houses, constructed out […]
The exiled Belarusian opposition leader has warned of the danger of Russia putting nuclear weapons in ‘the hands of a crazy dictator’. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya made the scathing comments about Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko while speaking to the BBC in Warsaw, Poland. She accused the west of ‘staying silent’ over the first deployment of nuclear weapons […]
Two children in western Massachusetts were injured after playing on playground equipment that was doused with hydrochloric acid. Police, firefighters, and a hazmat team were dispatched to the playground in Bliss Park in the town of Longmeadow on Sunday morning when a mother saw her children were left with ‘burn-like’ injuries after playing on a […]
The exiled Belarusian opposition leader has warned of the danger of Russia putting nuclear weapons in ‘the hands of a crazy dictator’. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya made the scathing comments about Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko while speaking to the BBC in Warsaw, Poland. She accused the west of ‘staying silent’ over the first deployment of nuclear weapons […]