Police in Denmark say they are responding to reports of a shooting in a shopping mall in Copenhagen. Copenhagen police said on Twitter they have sent officers to the Field’s shopping centre in the capital city. They are asking for local witnesses to contact them.
A second woman has been killed in a shark attack off Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The body of a Romanian tourist in her late forties was discovered near the resort of Hurghada, just hours after a separate fatal attack on a 68-year-old Austrian woman. Both attacks happened within 600 metres of each other, off the … Read more
Dozens of people who were being kept in a church basement in Nigeria as they awaited the second coming of Jesus Christ have been freed by police. At least 77 people were rescued from the church after pastors had preached to them about Christian believers ascending to heaven once Christ returned, authorities said. A total … Read more
Influential British theatre and film director Peter Brook has died at the age of 97, according to reports in French media. Brook won multiple won multiple awards including Tonys and Emmys during his 70-year career and worked with stars including Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Adrian Lester. The Le Monde newspaper said he … Read more
A third officer has died after a shooting in the US when police tried to execute an arrest warrant on a man accused of domestic violence. Jacob Russell Chaffins, a police dog handler and army veteran, had been rushed to hospital following the shooting in Kentucky but did not survive, his department said. Officers had … Read more
Part of the Red Sea coast has been closed after an Austrian woman was killed in a shark attack. The woman, 68, was swimming near the resort of Hurghada when she was attacked by the shark. She was barely alive by the time she arrived at a nearby hospital, according to an Egyptian health official. … Read more
Pro-Moscow separatists say they have taken control of Lysychansk, Ukraine’s last bastion in the eastern province of Luhansk. Rodion Miroshnik, ambassador to Russia of the pro-Moscow Luhansk People’s Republic, told Russian television: “Lysychansk has been brought under control. Unfortunately, it is not yet liberated.” Russian media showed footage of Luhansk militia fighters marching in the … Read more
A Puerto Rican judge has issued a restraining order against singer Ricky Martin, police have said. The order was signed on Friday after authorities visited the singer’s neighbourhood in the north coastal town of Dorado to try to serve the order, police spokesman Axel Valencia said. “Up until now, police haven’t been able to find … Read more
American forensic experts are going to analyse the bullet that killed an Al Jazeera journalist in May as the Palestinian Authority attempts to resolve a standoff with Israel over her death. Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was a veteran Palestinian-American reporter who had covered the Middle East conflict for more than 25 years. She was fatally … Read more
At the end of three days of talks and speeches from Taliban leaders and Islamic Scholars at the Grand Council meeting in Kabul there was a sense of deflation and betrayal. In the summary of resolutions from clerics at the gathering, to the disappointment of many, there was no announcement about girls education and the … Read more