WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare softening of hostile relations, the White House said Saturday that Venezuela freed seven Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the United States released two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife who had been jailed for years on drug smuggling convictions. The swap of the Americans, including five […]

Former President Trump said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a “death wish” for supporting bills that congressional Democrats have sponsored. The former president said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Saturday that any reason McConnell has for supporting the bills — be it that he knows Trump is […]

Convicted killer is jailed for 18 months for threatening neighbours with a meat cleaver because they laughed when he fell off his deckchair  Neighbours broke into laughter when Karl Drummond fell off his chair Drummond defence lawyer said he ‘didn’t see the funny side.’ He had previously been handed a 10 year sentence for manslaughter […]

VLADIMIR Putin's humiliated troops have fled a major battleground in eastern Ukraine as the tyrant's Chechen warlord said Russia should unleash nukes to retaliate. After being encircled by fierce Ukrainian forces, Russia decided to pull its struggling troops out from the key city of Lyman in a huge embarrassment for Moscow. Russia admitted its troops […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new law aims to stop other states from punishing children who come to California for transgender surgeries and other gender-affirming care, a move that will intensify conflicts between Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Republican governors amid the country's escalating culture war. Newsom signed the law on Thursday, but it […]

THE moment your dog looks up at you with puppy dog eyes, pleading for food can be hard to resist. Dogs often want our food, but not all human food is safe for dog consumption – especially chocolate. Can dogs eat chocolate? No, dogs cannot eat any form of chocolate. Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, […]

THOSE tiny red spiders that keep popping up around the garden can be a scourge for British gardeners in the warmer months. But despite its name, the tiny little red spiders are actually not spiders at all – find out here what they are. What are the little red spiders called? The tiny red spiders […]

New couple alert? Trevor Noah and Dua Lipa certainly looked like more than friends as they locked lips in New York City on Wednesday night. The pair grabbed dinner at Miss Lily's, a Jamaican restaurant in the East Village, and kissed in the street before going their separate ways. "They were quietly sat away from […]

Moment the people fight back: Mobile phone theft suspect is stopped in his tracks by HUGE rugby tackle from passer-by before middle-aged woman steps in to apply chokehold to stop him getting away Footage shows the unidentified individual sprinting along St Thomas Street The suspect was wearing black clothing and a surgical mask to cover […]

AT least 20 people – including children – have been killed after Putin's evil troops shelled a civilian convoy trying to flee heavy fighting. Ukraine's security service said the "cruel" attack happened in a "grey zone" between Russian-controlled and Ukrainian-controlled territory in the east of the country. Seven vehicles were hit in the shelling between […]