SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired an unidentified projectile on Thursday, the South’s military chiefs said, less than a week after its leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of multiple rockets and a missile. The projectile was fired at about 4:30 p.m. (0730 GMT) from the northwest location of Sino-ri, towards the east, the […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Flight operations at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest hub, have resumed after a drone sighting near the airport prompted an air traffic stoppage, operating company Fraport said on Thursday. In March a drone sighting prompted a 30-minute stoppage of air traffic at Frankfurt airport and in December drone sightings caused three days of […]

“I can’t let my fear be stronger than my hope” Nile Liburd Nicole Duhaney, 20, welcomed her little lads Emre and Elijah just before Christmas, last year.  But, the Huddersfield mum realised her children were struggling and took them to see the doctors.  Shortly afterwards Nicole and her partner Nile Liburd, 26, were told the […]

The first scheme of its kind is being piloted by the Cardiff and Vale health board. It aims to help tackle the local population’s weight problem after 54% of residents were found to be either obese or overweight. Available at two practice’s in the Welsh capital, it will see doctors prescribing patients a six-month membership […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Centenarian World War Two veteran Nikolay Bagayev will be among Russians across the country commemorating the anniversary of the war’s end on Thursday. He told his story to his granddaughter, Reuters Moscow bureau reporter Olesya Astakhova. “A starving peace is better than a well-fed war,” says 100-year-old decorated World War Two veteran […]

Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell branded the move an “abuse of power” and went on to accuse Donald Trump of “acting like a cowboy” over his stance on Venezuela. The row erupted when the US conformed it would begin enforcing a provision of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act allowing Cuban-Americans to sue in US courts over […]

The science is in: the endless pursuit of economic growth is devouring the foundations of life on Earth, and no country – rich or poor – can expect to escape dire consequences if things go on as they are. So how might the world change course? Though still confined to the fringes, a globally dispersed […]

A former steelworker who has been tried four times in the killing of a 23-year-old Hamilton nursing assistant in Stoney Creek has lost the appeal of his latest conviction. Robert Badgerow’s conviction for the 1981 murder of Diane Werendowicz will stand. The decision came down Wednesday morning from the Court of Appeal for Ontario. The […]

RCMP west of Edmonton are searching for suspects after an attempted robbery at a bar in Parkland County on Monday. Police were called to the Wabamun Hotel Bar shortly after noon. Officers said two men with hammers attempted to rob the bar. RCMP said one of the suspects swung a hammer at a staff member […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have filed money laundering charges against two Israelis who allegedly made millions of dollars operating a website connecting customers to sellers of fentanyl, heroin, guns and other illegal goods, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. It said Tal Prihar, an Israeli living in Brazil, and Michael Phan, an Israeli living […]