A Welsh rugby club has paid tribute to a 37-year-old woman who choked to death after eating marshmallows at a fundraising event. Natalie Buss collapsed and died on Saturday night at the event at Beddau RFC in Rhondda Cynon Taf. The club paid tribute to a “wonderful wife, mother and daughter” in a statement saying…
A Kenyan court temporarily blocked the government from deploying hundreds of police personnel in Haiti in a UN-approved mission aimed at helping the Caribbean nation tackle rampant gang violence. The court order issued on Monday is valid until 24 October and followed a petition jointly filed by one of the opposition political parties and two…
Democrats will vote to oust McCarthy – report The Washington Post reports that Democrats are unified in voting for the motion to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House for his support of Donald Trump and his downplaying of the January 6 attack on the Capitol: NEWS: Democrats will NOT vote present and will…
A man is scheduled to die by lethal injection over 25 years after he killed women het met in north Florida bars during a dayslong spate of crimes. Michael Zack III is set to die at 6pm Tuesday for the murder of Ravonne Smith, a bar employee he befriended and later beat and stabbed with…
Robert F Kennedy Jr is reported to be ending his challenge to Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and run instead as an independent candidate, in a move that could upset the 2024 race for the White House. Kennedy, 69 and a scion of a famous political dynasty – a son of the former…
The UK economy made a faster recovery from the Covid pandemic than previously estimated, according to revisions to official figures revealing a stronger performance than Germany and France. In a boost for Rishi Sunak before the Conservative party conference in Manchester beginning this weekend, revised figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed gross…
Thailand’s new prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, has said his government will “rectify” its cannabis policy and limit its use to medical purposes within six months. Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalise cannabis after it delisted the marijuana plant as a narcotic last year, leading to a boom of cannabis cafes and weed…
More than a third of runners at this year’s Mexico City Marathon have been expelled after organisers say they cut out sections of the 26.2 mile course. An investigation was launched after complaints that runners had used cars, public transport and bikes to cheat during the race on 27 August. Tracking data then showed that…
A man has been charged with the murder of a council worker who was shot in the back garden of her home in Liverpool last year. Ian Fitzgibbon was charged with the murder of Ashley Dale, 28, who was found with a gunshot wound in the back garden of her home in the Old Swan…
