U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet who has played a pivotal role in the Ukraine controversy, will refuse to testify as requested next week in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against Trump, an Energy Department spokeswoman said on Friday. Perry’s refusal represented the latest instance of Trump’s administration refusing to […]

Vietnam said on Saturday that human traffickers must be strictly dealt with as the Southeast Asian country was informed that several of its citizens were among the 39 people who died in a truck container in Britain last week. “The Vietnamese embassy in Britain was informed by Essex police that there are Vietnamese citizens, unidentified, […]

The German rescue ship Alan Kurdi made an unauthorised entrance into Italian territorial waters on  Friday. The ship has been sailing in the Mediterranean for almost a week with 88 migrants on board and has not yet been assigned a safe harbour. The non-profit organisation behind the Alan Kurdi, Sea Eye, said Friday’s manoeuvre was in response […]

Speaking in Belfast, Essex Police Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Stoten urged the brothers to “hand yourselves in to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.’’ The police earlier arrested the 25-year-old Northern Irish driver of the lorry that collected the container from the British freight port of Purleet, near London, after it was shipped from Zeebrugge […]

Apple Inc asked the Trump administration to waive tariffs on Chinese-made Apple Watches, iPhone components and other consumer products, according to company filings with the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office. The company on Thursday sought tariff exclusions from 11 products, including HomePod speakers, iMac computers, parts for use in repairing iPhones, iPhone smart battery cases, AirPods […]

A Lebanese man was sentenced to death on Friday on charges of murdering a British embassy employee nearly two years ago, Lebanon’s official news agency NNA reported. The ruling, issued by a criminal court in the area of Mount Lebanon, North East of Beirut, can be appealed. The court convicted the man, identified as Tarek […]

A plastic surgery ‘addict’ has undergone her third genital operation in a desperate bid to achieve the perfect ‘Barbie vagina’. Mirror reports that Star Delguidice, 32, has already spent £200,000 on her body – but says she still isn’t happy with her appearance. READ ALSO: My vagina most magical part of my body ― Tonto […]

A teenager has spoken about the sickening sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her dad from the age of just six-years-old. Shannon Clifton was raped by the man who was supposed to protect her and has had his baby but now she wants to help others see “the light at the end of […]

Sapporo was formally approved on Friday as host of the marathon events at next year’s Summer Olympics with the reluctant consent of Tokyo’s governor, ending a showdown between the Japanese capital and the IOC over where to stage the flagship event. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stunned many Games organisers last month by announcing that […]

A Zimbabwean man shocked his neighbours when he assaulted one of them after spotting him talking to his wife. It is understood that when Jomo Mnkandla saw Phethangani Nyoni exchanging words with his wife he became very jealous and hurled insults at Nyoni before assaulting and threatening to kill him. Since then, Nyoni has not had peace […]