School pupils in Brighton get badges saying if they prefer to be called ‘she, he or they’ with the slogan ‘gender is a spectrum’ in bid to help transgender children Secondary schools in Brighton and Hove will be given the badges for pupils  It’s part of council’s My Pronouns are…’ scheme to prevent ‘misgendering’  Wearing […]

Motorist drives the wrong way along the hard shoulder – with a woman running after the car – after crash causes four-hour tailbacks on the M1 A blue Mercedes drives along the hard shoulder in Barnsley, South Yorkshire Woman runs after vehicle as it heads towards the exit near junction 37 of the M1 The car […]

Mega water spout dwarfs high-rise buildings as it barrels towards Malaysian city in terrifying footage The waterspout ripped through the Tenjung Takong area of Penang Island Incredible footage taken on Monday shows the vortex swirling towards the city At least 50 houses were damaged on the island as the tornado stormed the coast It caused […]

Father who raped his daughter, 15, believing she was his wife is jailed for two-and-a-half years in Hong Kong after court hears the girl had forgiven him Parent came home ‘stinking of alcohol’ in March last year and got in child’s bed He stopped having sex with her at some point after realising it was […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a service for Indians to check the veracity of information, in the messaging platform’s latest attempt to combat fake news in India ahead of national elections beginning this month. WhatsApp said in a statement it was working with local startup Proto to classify messages sent to the service […]

A former Mississippi Gulf Coast police officer is headed to prison for the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was left in a patrol car while her mom had sex with a police supervisor. The Sun Herald of Biloxi reports ex-Long Beach police officer Cassie Barker was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison in […]

UN official calls the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi a ‘brutal and premeditated killing’ Saudi Arabia has given multimillion-dollar homes and monthly five-figure payments to the children of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post writer who was killed in a Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last October, as compensation for their father’s death, according to […]

The L.A. Police Department (LAPD) has identified 29-year-old Eric Holder as the suspect in the shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle, who died Sunday. In a news release issued Monday night — the same night that a memorial to Hussle devolved into chaos after numerous people were left with trampling injuries — the LAPD sought the […]

The number of U.S. measles cases through the first three months of this year have surpassed the count for all of 2018, health officials say. There have been 387 cases through March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday. There were 372 last year. The numbers are preliminary, and may change. But the […]

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Two weeks after a suicide bombing in Kashmir in February killed 40 Indian policemen, a Facebook user called Avi Dandiya posted a live video in which he played a recording of a call purportedly involving India’s home minister, the president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and an unidentified woman. […]