Author: Henry

LONDON – A 34-year-old British man of Somali origin has reportedly been arrested after a vehicle struck five pedestrians in central London on Friday evening. According to reports circulating on social media, emergency services quickly responded to the scene, where several people were injured after the car mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians. The exact condition of those injured has not yet been officially confirmed. Police have detained the driver, and an investigation is underway to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident. Authorities have not yet released further details regarding a possible motive. More information is expected as the investigation…

The search for a missing 19-year-old has entered its fourth day at a remote lake in eastern Kentucky, after the captain of the boat she had been travelling on — and who raised the alarm that she was missing — was arrested for operating the vessel while nearly twice over the alcohol limit. Marly Kinney, from Ashland, was last seen at Grayson Lake, in Carter County around 180 miles east of Louisville, at about 4pm on Wednesday 24 June. According to WOWK, she had been aboard a pontoon boat with several other people when its operator, 23-year-old Cameron Conley, told…

A 21-year-old door-to-door salesman has been arrested in western Colorado after allegedly exposing himself to several young girls who were inside a family home he had asked to enter to use the bathroom. According to the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to a house in a residential area along State Highway 340, between Grand Junction and Fruita, at around 6:45pm on Thursday. The man, named by the sheriff’s office as Koleman Barns, had earlier approached the homeowner about a product he was selling before leaving. He later returned to the property and asked to use the bathroom, and…

The National Weather Service has issued an Extreme Heat Watch for Cook County, including the city of Chicago, warning that a dangerous spell of heat and humidity is set to build from Monday and could rank among the most severe the area has seen in years. The watch is due to take effect on Monday afternoon and run through Wednesday evening. According to NBC Chicago, forecasters expect the heat index — a measure of how hot it actually feels once humidity is taken into account — to climb above 105°F (41°C) and potentially reach as high as 110°F (43°C). Conditions…

Four people were shot in the early hours of Saturday after celebrations marking Cape Verde’s historic World Cup qualification descended into violence in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. The shooting happened just before midnight on Friday, after hundreds of fans had gathered to watch the small island nation hold Saudi Arabia to a draw — a result that secured Cape Verde’s place in the tournament’s knockout stage. According to NBC Boston, the team’s progress made it the smallest country ever to reach the World Cup’s last 32, a milestone for a nation of around half a million people off the…

Oxford University solicited and accepted more than £12 million from the late motorsport tycoon Max Mosley — the son of the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley — and arranged for the Mosley name to be inscribed on one of its most historic monuments, despite objections from academics, students and Jewish groups, according to an investigation by the Daily Mail. Drawing on documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests, the Mail reported that several Oxford colleges and departments courted Mosley for donations in the years before his death in 2021, and that the university pressed ahead with the money even…

Driver 16 times over drug limit jailed for killing cyclist A motorist who got behind the wheel with cocaine far over the legal limit has been jailed for nine years after veering across a country road and killing a cyclist in a head-on crash. Daniel Booth, 31, admitted causing the death of 56-year-old Neil Routley, who was struck as he cycled along the B4461 Aust Road near the Severn Bridge in South Gloucestershire on 29 June last year. Bristol Crown Court heard that Booth, of Lydney in the Forest of Dean, had no previous convictions and had pleaded guilty to…

Reports circulating on social media claim that the United States has launched military strikes in the Strait of Hormuz following what has been described as an alleged Iranian violation of a recently agreed ceasefire. The reported strikes come amid heightened tensions in the strategically vital waterway, a key global shipping route through which a significant share of the world’s oil supply passes. Any military escalation in the region could have major implications for international security and energy markets. At the time of publication, US and Iranian officials have not released detailed statements confirming the reported operation. The situation remains fluid,…

Texas is poised to become the first U.S. state to require public school pupils to study passages from the Bible as part of their core reading, with its education board due to vote on Friday on a measure that would affect more than five million children. The proposal before the Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education would set out a list of roughly 200 required texts, placing parables from the New Testament alongside literary staples such as Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” and Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” According to CBS News, education observers believe the plan appears to be the…

A small, long-overlooked patch of land in Brookhaven, Georgia, is set to become a public park after the City Council approved buying the site, with most of the cost covered by a donation from the family foundation of a former councilman. The council agreed to purchase the 0.95-acre property at 1277 Goodwin Road — commonly known as “Goodwin Island” for the way it sits marooned at the junction of North Druid Hills Road and East Roxboro Road. According to the City of Brookhaven, the $1.5 million acquisition was approved at the council’s meeting on 23 June. The bulk of the…