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Turkish Airlines plane diverted to Canada after bomb threat - just days after two Air France planes were threatened with being blown up PUBLISHED : Sunday, 22 November, 2015, 9:59pm UPDATED : Sunday, 22 November, 2015, 11:36pm Agence France-Presse in Ottawa A Turkish Airlines aircraft takes...

Messaging app block IS-propaganda channels Associated Press 2015-11-19 10:29 AM BERLIN (AP) — The creators of a popular messaging app called Telegram say they are acting to stop the Islamic State group from distributing propaganda to a wide audience through the service. In a...

VW to recall 1,906 cars in Russia over engine worries - standards agency Reuters November 19, 2015, 11:52 pm A Volkswagen logo hangs in a car showroom in Berlin, November 8, 2006. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke MOSCOW (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen will recall 1,906 cars in Russia...

Revenge porn hacker gets 2 years for stealing, selling nude pics: Reports THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:18 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:32 AM EST (Fotolia) LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area man was sentenced to two years in prison on...

Italian man convicted of supplying prostitutes to Berlusconi Reuters First posted: Friday, November 13, 2015 01:38 PM EST | Updated: Friday, November 13, 2015 01:46 PM EST Forza Italia party (PDL) leader Silvio Berlusconi speaks during a Northern League rally in Bologna, central Italy...

Mystery diamond buyer revealed: Hong Kong billionaire fugitive spends US$48m on ‘Blue Moon Diamond’ for daughter The stunning purchase came one day after the same buyer is suspected to have paid US$28m for a pink stone - and renamed it for 'Josephine' PUBLISHED : Thursday, 12 November, 2015...

Russian artist faces jail after starting fire at FSB Andrew Osborn, REUTERS First posted: Monday, November 09, 2015 09:36 AM EST | Updated: Monday, November 09, 2015 10:43 AM EST Artist Pyotr Pavlensky holds a petrol can during a protest action titled "Threat" in front of the Federal...

S. Africa police investigate genital mutilator over wife's murder AFP November 7, 2015, 3:43 am Johannesburg (AFP) - A Danish national accused of mutilating several women and keeping their removed clitorises in his freezer is also suspected of involvement in the killing of his wife, South...

Danish man in S.Africa court over female genitals kept in freezer AFP November 5, 2015, 4:58 am Bloemfontein (South Africa) (AFP) - A Danish national accused of assault for mutilating several women and keeping their removed clitorises in his freezer appeared in a South African court on...

U.K. judge orders huge payout for woman claiming to be 'secret wife' of late Saudi king The Associated Press First posted: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:54 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 01:20 PM EST Prime Minister Jean Chretien, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Fahd...

Hong Kong tycoon and ex-deputy leader launch graft appeal AFP November 3, 2015, 4:57 am Hong Kong (AFP) - Hong Kong property tycoon Thomas Kwok and ex-deputy leader Rafael Hui were back in court on Monday to appeal corruption convictions that saw them jailed last year after a blockbuster...

Colorado carjacker gets 160 years for crime spree caught on live TV Keith Coffman, Reuters First posted: Friday, October 30, 2015 11:40 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 30, 2015 11:51 PM EDT Ryan Stone is seen in an undated booking photo released by the Longmont Police Department in...

Grand theft auto Hong Kong: Vehicles worth HK$1m stolen after thieves pinch keys from safe in early morning raid PUBLISHED : Thursday, 29 October, 2015, 1:01pm UPDATED : Thursday, 29 October, 2015, 6:47pm Clifford Lo [email protected] Three cars worth about HK$1 million in total were...

Chewbacca detained for lack of ID while driving Darth Vader to Ukraine election PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 27 October, 2015, 3:31pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 27 October, 2015, 3:33pm The Guardian in Moscow, Russia Chewbacca resisted four law enforcement officers, who were forced to pin him down on the...

TalkTalk cyber hack: Boy, 15, arrested at home in County Antrim, Northern Ireland He was held on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act File photo: police have arrested a 15 year old boy on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, following a major breach...

Sweden school attack: killer Anton Lundin Pettersson glorified Nazis and targeted dark-skinned victims Police found a handwritten letter in his apartment in Trollhättan, which showed he had planned the attack and expected it would be his final act. PUBLISHED : Saturday, 24 October, 2015...

Swedish sword killer 'was Hitler fan, targeted immigrants' AFP October 24, 2015, 2:30 am Trollhättan (Sweden) (AFP) - The 21-year-old sword-wielding attacker who killed a teacher and a teenager at a Swedish school admired Hitler and had far-right sympathies, media reports revealed Friday as...

Sweden sword attack was 'racist', say police AFP October 24, 2015, 3:36 am Trollhättan (Sweden) (AFP) - A sword-wielding masked man who killed two people at a Swedish school with many immigrant pupils was motivated by racism, police said Friday, as hostility towards refugees mounts across...

Swordsman ‘in Star Wars mask’ kills teacher and student at school in Sweden Two other people are wounded in the attack in Trollhattan PUBLISHED : Thursday, 22 October, 2015, 5:55pm UPDATED : Thursday, 22 October, 2015, 9:28pm Agence France-Presse in Trollhattan Police officers stand guard...

Oslo moves to ban cars from city centre AFP October 20, 2015, 2:34 am Oslo (AFP) - Oslo's new leftist city council said Monday it wants to ban private cars from the downtown area by 2019 as part of a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by half. The plan was laid out by the Labour Party...