Crime3 days agoNew British rape prosecution guidelines advise to ignore 'sexts,' explicit imagesThe guidelines argue that the changing digital interactions that individuals regularly engage in create a need for changing standards in legal prosecutions.
ElectionsOctober 12Biden tax hike plan causes wealthy Americans to panic over estate planning strategiesAdvisers see uptick in planning requests ahead of the election.
CaliforniaOctober 9San Francisco tax revenue plunge points to resident exodusSales tax revenues declined by more than 40% this spring.
CrimeOctober 1Luxury mansion in Canada operated as 'high-end illegal casino,' complete with slot machines, police sayA sprawling mansion in a high-end neighborhood north of Toronto operated as a "high-end" underground gambling den, according to police.
HEALTHSeptember 23German Lufthansa airline plans rapid COVID-19 testing for passengersGerman airline Lufthansa announced this week that it would start offering rapid coronavirus testing for passengers in October.
CoronavirusSeptember 11South Africa's strict coronavirus lockdown credited with saving lives, but economy is sufferingSouth Africa’s coronavirus lockdown measures, some of the strictest in the world, have earned praise from groups including the World Health Organization [WHO] for saving lives – but at the same time, recent data could prove some analysts’ claims that its economy has been largely “destroyed.”
ChinaSeptember 11China slaps restrictions on US diplomats' movements as tensions growChina announced "reciprocal restrictions" on the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and across the country.
United KingdomSeptember 9UK bill to override Brexit agreement would break international law should negotiations fail, officials sayUnited Kingdom government ministers on Wednesday published a draft version of the controversial “Internal Market Bill,” which admittedly in practice would break international law by overriding parts of Brexit’s withdrawal agreement from the European Union.
IranSeptember 3After historic Israel-UAE flight, other Muslim-majority countries considering to follow suitEarlier this week, an Israeli plane imprinted with the word “peace” on the outside of its cockpit flew from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, symbolically sealing a landmark diplomatic deal between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates.
Odd NewsAugust 30France horse killings stun countryside after 'barbaric' slayings with mysterious, ritual-like mutilationsA spate of gruesome killings of horses and ponies across pastures in France has left police baffled and rural communities terrified as the mysterious slayings appear to only be growing.
