Manhunt for two brothers over UK cargo truck deaths
Ronan Hughes and his brother Christopher, from Northern Ireland, are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking over the 39 victims found in a...
Lebanon’s Hariri resigns as crisis turns violent
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Tuesday amid protests that called for his government to resign. Violence also hit Lebanon’s streets as mobs loyal...
Ex-soldier smashes world record for scaling world’s 14 highest mountains
A Nepalese mountain climber and former British soldier has smashed the world record for climbing the world’s highest 14 mountains in just over six months,...
Despite gunfire, Iraq’s protests burn on
Security forces killed 14 Iraqis in the city of Kerbala overnight, sources say, but thousands of protesters remain on the streets. David Doyle reports....
Could Kenyan researchers develop East Africa’s first antivenom?
Experts at the Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Center, partly funded by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, are working to get East Africa’s first...
Man smashes record for scaling world’s highest mountains
A Nepalese mountain climber and former British soldier has smashed the world record for climbing the world’s highest 14 mountains in just over six months,...
Watching from space to detect whale strandings
Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey are using satellite imagery to detect and study massive whale strandings, with the hope of figuring out how to...
Shark bites off snorkeler’s foot, another hurt in Australian attack
A British man had his foot bitten off and another was injured in a shark attack off Australia’s northeast coast on Tuesday, emergency officials in...
UK’s pre-Christmas election hopes to unwrap Brexit
The UK looks set for an election in December after opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said the conditions needed for his backing had been met. David...
Five Colombian indigenous guards killed, possibly by rebel dissidents, military says
Five Colombian indigenous guards, tasked with protecting the country’s tribal reservations, were killed in a confrontation, possibly with dissident rebel fighters on Tuesday, the military...