A British diver who helped save 12 schoolboys trapped in a cave in Thailand has himself been rescued from a flooded tunnel in the US after more than a day underground. Josh Bratchley had been exploring a cave in Jackson County, Tennessee, with a group of divers from the UK. He failed to return to […]

She has been released from prison in Palma and told she can return to the UK. The 19-year-old told a judge a glass she threw on the floor had broken and part of it had hit Sarah’s neck. Cole said she had been angry after Sarah, of the Royal Logistic Corps, punched her in the […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Thursday it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said he should be replaced in talks by someone more mature, hours after it announced its first weapons test since nuclear talks broke down. The North’s official KCNA news agency quoted senior foreign […]

North Korea has test-fired a new tactical guided weapon – the first launch since a summit with the US ended without an agreement in Vietnam in February. The secretive nation’s leader Kim Jong Un saw the event and hailed it as having “very weighty significance”. But state media did not say whether it was a […]

A deadly storm swooped in on northern India after wrecking havoc on neighbouring nations Afghanistan and Pakistan with winds of up to 70 miles per hour and violent thunderstorms. Up to 16 registered deaths were reported in Madhya Pradesh, followed by a further 10 in Gujarat and six in Rajasthan, according to the Indian Express. […]

UPDATE:  RCMP report Daniel Snyder has been located and is safe. A missing West Kelowna man has yet to be located and police say they’re very concerned for his health and well-being. Daniel Snyder was last seen Monday evening on Menu Rd. and his vehicle was recovered at the end of Webber Rd. near the […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s ruling coalition, which backs President Joko Widodo, is on course to win more than half the votes in an election for the national parliament, based on a count of more than 60 percent of ballots cast on Wednesday, two pollsters said. Indonesia held simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday. Widodo, […]

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s Senate approved changes to the criminal code on Wednesday that could shut down a number of ongoing high-level graft cases in one of the European Union’s most corrupt states. The changes are the latest in a series made by the ruling Social Democrats since they came to power in 2017 that […]

Toronto police will hold a news conference Wednesday morning to launch another crime prevention campaign in the Chinatown area. Inspector Matt Moyer and Chinatown BIA members will be speaking about Project Blue Hog, a ten-week crime prevention project that will begin on Monday. This project will focus on deterring crime, theft, shoplifting, panhandling, public intoxication, […]

The protesters, a man and a woman, said they were staging a “peaceful protest”, and were planning to glue themselves to the train. They were stood holding a banner with “climate emergency” written on it – while another man in a hi-vis jacket glued himself to the side. Wi-Fi at Tube stations has been disabled […]