California‘s Russian River is running a little redder than usual after a major spill at a vineyard in Sonoma County, where a broken vat dumped nearly 363,000 litres (96,000 gallons) of wine into a nearby waterway. The spill happened at Rodney Strong Vineyards on Wednesday, according to a report from the Governor’s Office of Emergency […]

A feminist professor at Oxford University was given two security guards to protect her from potentially violent transgender activists furious over some of the things she wrote on her website, according to a report Friday. Selina Todd, a historian who focuses on the lives of working-class women, received threats after writing that trans people sometimes […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s tourism watchdog said on Friday it was recommending that travel operators stop sales of packages to China due to the new coronavirus. It recommended that Russians refrain from visiting China until the “epidemiological situation stabilizes”. China is taking measures to contain the coronavirus, which has killed 26 people and infected more […]

A 21-year-old man may have a full stomach, but Guelph police say he is facing charges after a fast-food restaurant was broken into on Friday. According to a news release, a man kicked in the drive-thru window of a restaurant at the corner of Wellington and Gordon streets just after midnight. Once inside, police say […]

AN innocent woman was shot and her dog killed in a botched gangland hit last night. The 52-year-old passerby was blasted in the hand as she walked her pet Henry at 7pm. Her white Maltichon was shot dead when three masked men armed with guns and a knife pulled up in a Ford Focus and […]

THIS is the nail-biting moment a Ryanair pilot aborts his landing as his plane is battered by high winds during Spain's killer Storm Gloria. In dramatic fashion, the video shows the Boeing 737 swaying from side to side as it prepared land before the pilot headed for the skies again. Local reports said the aircraft […]

A legal high left a heavily-tattooed Instagram model paralysed from the waist down. Tamika Dudley said she started using nitrous canisters as a "fun high" after trying them for the first time last year at home in Brisbane, Australia. Inhaling the gas from a balloon after a canister has been cracked leaves users with a […]

Dozens of firefighters were battling a massive blaze in Dagenham this afternoon. The fire ripped through a car workshop in the town in east London throughout the morning. At least 16 fire engines and 100 firefighters were at the scene at the Chadwell Heath industrial estate by midday. Thick plumes of black smoke could be […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli leaders in Washington to reveal details of his long-delayed Middle East peace plan, Palestinians warned on Friday that no deal could work without them on board. Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief rival centrist former general Benny Gantz to […]

A Winnipeg man wants snow clearing crews to clean up the mess they left behind. Joseph Strebly says his 24-year-old Colorado spruce tree was snapped in two by a snowplow Tuesday night before the plow hit another tree and became stuck just outside his Unicity home. All of it happening while Strebly stood in his […]