Venezuelan authorities have announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of exiled opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who insists he beat President Nicolás Maduro at the polls. Police published on social media a photo of the previously little-known ex-diplomat with the word “wanted” under the image. He fled to Spain in September…

An apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles (1,600km) pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population. The Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said the orca, known as Tahlequah, or…

FBI now ‘confident’ that suspect acted alone in New Orleans An FBI official addressing media on Thursday said law enforcement is “confident” the suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, acted alone – a reversal since yesterday, when officials said they were looking into the possibility that the suspect, Jabbar, had coordinated with others. “It’s really premature and you’re…

Engineers are assessing the scale of damage to a canal built more than 250 years ago after flood waters caused a dramatic collapse of part of its elevated embankment in Cheshire. The Bridgewater canal, which was previously used to transport coal but is now a leisure waterway, caved in near Dunham Massey, in the first…