Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would not resign despite being charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in a corruption scandal that he denounced as an “attempted coup”. The charges announced by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit were the first of their kind against a serving Israeli prime minister and represented […]

The boxing champion had gone out to the pharmacy in her home village of Tarasivka in the Kyiv region.

A top US diplomat has told an impeachment inquiry that he followed President Donald Trump’s orders to put pressure on Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. The instruction came from Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Ambassador Gordon Sondland said. Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, told the latest hearing in the US […]

A paranoid schizophrenic allegedly killed three pensioners he wrongly believed were paedophiles. Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, 28, was under the delusion that he had uncovered a paedophile ring so killed Anthony Payne, 80, and twin brothers Roger and Dick Carter, 84, in February. He is on trial for murder after admitting to the killings but denies murder […]

A dog owner has been jailed for over five months after he was caught on camera repeatedly punching his pet. Robert Black was given the 23-week sentenced at Reading Magistrates’ Court for causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. A witness saw him beating his dog in Victoria Park, Newbury, Berkshire, on December 21 last […]