Three people were shot and three others were injured at a packed North Carolina shopping mall the day after Thanksgiving. A 10-year-old was struck by a “bullet ricochet injury” inside the The Streets at Southpoint shopping centre in Durham on 26 November,
The National Police Association is calling on bystanders to step in and help if they see an officer being assaulted rather than filming on mobile phones “in the pursuit of likes and attention”. Thousands of officers are being assaulted on the job
Israel is on the “verge of a state of emergency”, the country’s prime minister warned, after a worrying new coronavirus variant was detected in at least three people. The country imposed a travel ban on Friday covering most of Africa after detecting
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___
Far-right Republican US Rep Lauren Boebert has offered an apology to “anyone in the Muslim community” she offended after video captured her suggesting that US Rep Ilhan Omar, among one of two Muslim women in Congress, was mistaken for a terrorist at
Thousands of people have raised more than $1m for a 62-year-old Missouri man who served more than 40 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Kevin Strickland was exonerated on 23 November after serving 42 years imprisoned at Western Missouri
Thanksgiving didn’t go the way one woman planned after she cooked lots of food, decorated her house and none of her guests showed up or bothered to text. “I’m so sad for her,” wrote her boyfriend in a TikTok clip. The viral video
Boris Johnson raised eyebrows on Friday when he greeted Poland’s populist prime minister by grabbing his thumb. One Downing Street photographer to witnessed the incident described the greeting as “very odd”. Mateusz Morawiecki was visiting Downing Street for talks while his country
Poland’s resistance to introducing new lockdowns and restrictions amid skyrocketing COVID-19 infections and deaths is drawing criticism from the country’s medical professionals and is bucking a growing European embrace of limits on the unvaccinated. The populist right-wing government of Prime Minister Mateusz
A council in Australia has voted in favour of plans to effectively ban domestic cats from being outdoors unless they are on a lead. The planned “cat management” law change in the city of Freemantle, Western Australia, would see cats banned from
The United States could reimpose travel restrictions to countries in southern Africa where a highly transmissible new Covid variant is spreading, Anthony Fauci says. The White House’s chief medical adviser told CNN US public health officials were “rushing” to get data from