A British base jumper has died in Thailand, local police have said. The 33-year-old man's parachute failed to open after he jumped from a building in the eastern beach resort of Pattaya, according to local authorities. Officers said they were called to a 29-storey apartment block on Saturday evening after eyewitnesses reported seeing a person crash through a tree and fall to the ground. The victim's social media pages suggest […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has returned USD 26,000 to Christine Brown, a British national and a victim of internet fraud. The commission in a statement says the Briton was duped of her life savings by an internet fraudster posing as an American entertainer online after she got romantically involved with him. Ms. Brown was presented with the sum of $26,000 by the Benin Zonal Command of the […]
About 15,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Canada's British Columbia, as firefighters battle raging wildfires that have set homes ablaze. Officials said a "significant" number of buildings caught fire in West Kelowna, a city of 36,000 people, and more than 2,400 homes were evacuated. A state of emergency has been declared for the entire province, where hundreds of separate fires are burning. Hundreds of miles north, a huge […]
A British nurse has been found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming UK's most prolific killer of children. "Lucy Letby was entrusted to protect some of the most vulnerable babies. Little did those working alongside her know that there was a murderer in their midst," According to the court, her colleagues raised concerns after noticing […]
More than a hundred British parliamentarians on Monday called on the government to do more to secure the release of Egyptian-British opponent Alaa Abdel Fattah, imprisoned for more than three years. Alaa Abdel Fattah was arrested at the end of 2019 and sentenced to five years in prison for "false information" after reposting on Facebook a text, written by another, accusing an officer of torture. In this letter, which will […]
