British authorities have not released the name of the suspect, but British media reported the suspect is Ali Harbi Ali, 25, believed to be a British citizen with Somali heritage. The Sunday Times reported that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, a former adviser to Somalia’s prime minister, said British counter-terrorism[Read More…]

Queen Elizabeth II is preparing to host some number of world leaders at the 26th United Nations climate change conference (COP26) in Glasgow in a couple of weeks. The Queen was overheard telling Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, on Thursday, they “still don’t know who is coming.” The stakes are very high[Read More…]

Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite Mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshipers attending weekly Friday prayers, killing at least 47 people and wounding 70, according to a Taliban official. It was the deadliest day since the U.S. military withdrawal. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the[Read More…]

David Amess, 69, who was a Conservative MP from Southend West in Essex, was stabbed during a meeting at the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. The Metropolitan Police, whose counter-terrorism unit are leading the investigation of the incident, said in a statement early on Saturday that they declared the fatal[Read More…]

After multiple controversies surrounding government censorship and tightening restrictions on tech, Microsoft has announced they are shutting down LinkedIn in China and replacing it with a jobs-only site. The transition is expected to happen later this year. LinkedIn, the only Western-based social media platform currently operating in China, will be[Read More…]

As Prince William prepares to deliver his Earthshot Prize to people saving the planet, he aimed some criticism at billionaires sending people to space, saying, “We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to[Read More…]

North Korea has released a video of ‘fierce-looking’, shirtless soldiers performing bare-handed stunts in the latest show from Kim Jong-un’s military. The soldiers put on a performance for the North Korean leader, who looked impressed and even smiled at some of the action movie-like stunts, during a “self defence” military[Read More…]

Four women and a man were killed and two others wounded when a man used a bow and arrow to attack them in Norway. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at 18:12 local time. A Danish man aged 37[Read More…]

The head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards Nobel Prizes in science, announced the prize will not introduce gender quotas in a Monday BBC interview. The academy wants there to be no doubt that women who win the Nobel prize did so “because they made the most[Read More…]

Vatican City cannot be sued in European courts because it is a sovereign state, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday, delivering a blow to victims of clergy sexual abuse seeking to bring claims against the Catholic Church’s highest authorities. The ruling also upheld the Vatican’s defense that[Read More…]