Drivers have stopped panicking, now that gasoline prices have dropped from $5 per gallon in June to less than $4. But global energy markets are still turbulent, and the next pinch might come from winter prices for heat and electricity. Tight energy markets began pushing up the price of natural gas, America’s largest source of […]

A woman has been arrested in South Africa on suspicion of the double murder of two best friends in Ireland, after eight years on the run. The brutal killings of Anthony Keegan and Eoin O’Connor in 2014 sparked a global manhunt for Ruth Lawrence. But on Tuesday the 42-year-old was detained by South African police […]

Details of convicted double murderer Jacob Elliott’s criminal behaviour before his arrest over the deadly drive-by shooting at the Love Machine nightclub in Prahran have been revealed in court. The 21-year-old appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday via an audiovisual link from Barwon Prison. Jacob Elliott was found guilty of two counts of […]

A BRITISH tourist drowned while on holiday in Crete marking the third tragic death at the popular resort in just a few days. The lifeless body of the woman was found washed up on the beach of Almyrida in Chania. The woman, believed to be from Wales, was reportedly found unconscious on Wednesday afternoon. Her […]

Police are investigating a series of burglaries involving a group of young offenders who went on a spree in Perth’s south, terrorising an elderly man in his home and pushing an elderly woman to the ground, dislocating and fracturing her shoulder. On Wednesday afternoon, a group of three to four men, described as in their […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A baby girl, her parents and uncle who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their central California business two days ago were found dead Wednesday, the sheriff of Merced County said. “Our worst fears have been confirmed," Sheriff Vern Warnke told reporters Wednesday night. A farmworker found the bodies close together in […]

Donald Trump has sought to woo one of America’s fastest-growing voting blocs as he lays the groundwork for a potential presidential run, urging the Hispanic community to get behind him to stop the US becoming a country of “recession, depression and fear”. As Joe Biden toured hurricane-ravaged Fort Myers with Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis […]

Key points Declan Cutler, 16, was killed as he left a house party on March 13.  Police allege eight teenagers attacked and killed him. All eight have pleaded not guilty and, on Thursday, were committed to stand trial.  The date for the trial has not yet been set. Eight boys, including a 13-year-old child, will […]

‘This isn’t the end of the story’: Lawyer for Epstein victim warns that Prince Andrew’s drama is not yet over as it’s revealed Ghislaine Maxwell has until June 2023 to cooperate and reduce her sentence A lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has warned in a new documentary that Ghislaine Maxwell could yet decide to provide […]

Grief-stricken parents of 12-year-old girl who tragically drowned on school trip in France weep outside court after three British teachers accused of manslaughter are cleared of any wrongdoing Jessica Lawson, 12, drowned while on a school trip near Limoges, France, in 2015 She was the youngest child on trip from Wolfreton School in Willerby, near […]