Nine children have been gunned down at a petrol station in the one of the latest mass shootings to shock the US. Seven boys and two girls – the youngest just five years old – are alive and have received hospital treatment,
The public must never forget about the insidious threat terrorism poses. With war raging in Ukraine, the potential for horror and destruction posed by jihadists, extreme right-wing terrorists, left-wing extremists and incels is not at the forefront of our security discussions. But
A powerful new drug that rots human flesh is compounding America’s opioid crisis, public health officials have warned. Known on the streets as “Tranq Dope”, the drug is a mix of fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that’s shattering young lives across the
Britain pledged another £25million for quake-hit Turkey and Syria yesterday, as victims were amazingly found alive after 220 hours. The latest cash brings the total UK support to £42.8million. It will give emergency relief to families made homeless in freezing conditions after
A gunman opened fire Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three people and wounding five more, before fatally shooting himself miles away amid an hours long manhunt that forced frightened students to hide in the dark. Police announced the man’s death
More than 14,000 Ukrainian children have been forcefully deported to Russia or its territories in a deliberate ploy to “destroy Ukrainian ethnicity”, a charity warned last night. Some have been so “manipulated and brainwashed” by their time in Russia that they have
A 26-year-old man who died after a double knife attack in east London in the early hours of Saturday morning (Febuary 11) has been named. Mr Trei Daley of Bromley, South London was stabbed near the Colour Factor nightclub in Queen’s Yard,
Researchers developing digital tools to predict and prepare for the next infectious disease outbreaks have received a new boost, amid warnings that climate change will only make the risk of a pandemic worse. The Wellcome Trust, a London-based charity focused on health
Satellite images have uncovered the devastation left behind by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria earlier this week, as 190-mile-long cracks appear on the ground. According to the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), the death toll from the horrific earthquake
A Syrian newborn whose mother gave birth while buried in earthquake rubble has received a name fitting her circumstances. A doctor at Afrin children’s hospital in Aleppo has named the baby girl Aya – the Arabic word for miracle – after rescuers