LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – A woman from the lowest rung of India’s caste system died in hospital on Tuesday weeks after authorities said she was raped by a group of men, triggering protests and opposition criticism over what it said was a failure to protect women.Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest after the death of […]

A ten-year-old girl has reported both her parents to police for alleged sex abuse since the age of five. Officers raided the family home and found horrific videos confirming the abuse over at least the past two years, according to law enforcement sources. Both parents – Andrey K, 38, and his unnamed wife, 37 – […]

Princess Eugenie says royal titles "are a curse" and she won't accept one for her baby if given one by the Queen, according to a family friend. The pregnant royal has snubbed the idea of a royal title because she wants her unborn baby to lead an "ordinary life," reports Vanity Fair. This comes as […]

Over one million people have now died of the novel coronavirus globally, a sobering milestone as countries around the world struggle to contain a growing second wave of the pandemic. The death toll surpassed one million Monday evening, reaching 1,000,555, according to public health data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The fatalities account for three […]

British clothing label Fred Perry has decided to stop selling a black-and-yellow polo shirt in North America after the far-right Proud Boys group adopted it as a uniform. The Proud Boys, a self-described “Western chauvinist” group that gained notoriety following the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, also used the laurel wreath logo on flyers […]

A man has been charged with 18 felony counts in Jefferson County for allegedly sexually assaulting four women in the foothills after driving victims there in separate incidents over the past six months, prosecutors said. Joseph Gabriel Van Eck, 32, has been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, kidnapping, second-degree assault and menacing, according […]

Yerevan/Baku: Fighting escalated sharply on Monday between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and at least 29 people were killed in a second day of heavy clashes. The two sides pounded each other with rockets and artillery in the fiercest round of the decades-old conflict in more than a quarter of a […]

FREEDOM loving Boris Johnson is under the “spell” of his gloomy Lord of the Rings’ ‘Wormtongue’ advisers, one his biggest backers declared tonight. Brexiteer Steve Baker blasted the Prime Minister’s reliance on top docs and aides, saying he needed to be “woken up” from a “slumber” and hinted others were pulling the strings. ⚠️ Read […]

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Delays related to software problems and to the COVID-19 pandemic are pushing up the cost of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project by $435 million. Province-owned Nalcor Energy said Monday in a news release the project needs another $75 million in capital due to pandemic-related delays. Nalcor adds that because of those […]

The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox The Moon is increasingly the focus for space exploration, with the US, Russia and possibly China planning crewed missions over the coming decade. But the longer-stay missions such as NASA ’s planned Artemis program will face a […]