Five people interviewed over the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol will be offered conditional cautions, a chief constable has said. The bronze memorial to the 17th century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 7, before being dumped …...Read More

The same boy said Mr. Harris asked him for oral sex in a bathroom at a cheerleading competition they both attended. Officials said that in the Monday interview, Mr. Harris admitted to asking the boy for explicit photos, sending photos of himself and requesting oral sex, and said he knew …...Read More

The Duke of Cambridge is set to join a star-studded line-up to give a virtual TED talk about climate change. Prince William, 38, will appear alongside a panel of keen environmentalist and celebrities at TED's Countdown Global Launch on 10 October to discuss how the world can tackle global warming …...Read More

Another good day for Biden in Wisconsin: An ABC News/Washington Post poll Wednesday found Joseph R. Biden Jr. up by six points among likely voters in Wisconsin, putting him in a strong position in the state, hovering at or above 50 percent with a consistent lead in an unusual number …...Read More

JK Rowling has once again been criticised for her new novel, after she was accused of 'transliterating' one of the book's working class characters by spelling their dialect differently. Troubled Blood, written under Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith, was released Tuesday and sees detective Cormoran Strike work out what happened to …...Read More

This is the touching moment two elderly Chinese parents are reunited with their long-lost son 38 years after he was abducted. The 70-year-old man and his wife had spent the last nearly four decades praying for the return of their child, nicknamed Jin Shui, who was snatched from their home …...Read More

Back in 2019, when a person didn’t have to quarantine for two weeks each time he crossed a state border, the author and bar owner Brian Bartels cashed in all his vacation time and spent a few months visiting 44 of the 50 states. On some long weekends, he’d hit …...Read More

The governor of Nigeria's Kaduna state has signed a law saying men convicted of rape will face surgical castration. Anyone raping a child under age 14 will face the death penalty under the new legislation. It follows public anger over a recent increase of rapes amid Covid-19 restrictions, which prompted …...Read More

Armed police are on the hunt for man wielding a machete as a nearby school has been locked down to keep children safe. Students at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy were kept inside while Sussex Police officers, assisted by a helicopter, searched the area. The force received a report of a …...Read More

But despite its chilling past, the sprawling property has been bought at auction for £1.1m by a mystery buyer His company put Pencoed Castle near Newport, Wales up for sale for reduced price while he serves sentence Advertisement A castle dating back to the 16th century where a jealous millionaire …...Read More