WORLD

Jailyn’s cries echoed through the quiet streets of Cleveland in the dead of the night. The toddler whimpered and howled, but no one came to her rescue. Her mother, Kristel Candelario, was away on a 10-day summer vacation and had left…
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A high-profile murder trial of a former government minister in Kazakhstan has been followed by millions and shone a spotlight on the country's domestic violence problem. After a landmark sentence saw a once powerful politician held to…
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Independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has revealed that a worm ate part of his brain. It has emerged the 70-year-old made the claim during a 2012 interview, known as a deposition, in his divorce proceedings from his…
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A 73-year-old British man has died and more than 30 other people have been injured on a Singapore Airlines flight from London which was hit by severe turbulence. The Singapore-bound Boeing 777-300ER was diverted to Bangkok, making an…
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A helicopter in a convoy carrying the Iranian president has been involved in an accident, according to state media reports. State media says President Ebrahim Raisi was on board a helicopter that experienced a hard landing on Sunday.…
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At least 50 people have died in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in central Afghanistan, officials have said. Authorities in the Ghor province say a number of others are missing, as people ran to safety on higher grounds just…
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Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder and she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen.…
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The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy said in a post…
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The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard "Rick" Slayman, 62, was suffering with end-stage kidney disease…
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When Rachael Fletcher-Beaumont got married last year, she was determined that her wedding wasn't going to break the bank. "There's a perception that the word 'wedding' adds noughts ," says the 34-year-old from Bradford. The thing that…
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