Rescuers struggled overnight through blizzards to reach the hotel. Dramatic pictures show rescuers battling through blizzards to reach a luxury hotel in the mountains of central Italy buried by an avalanche. Snowstorms and blocked roads meant emergency rescue teams struggled overnight to reach the four star hotel, close to...
Up to 30 people were feared to have died today after an Italian mountain hotel was engulfed by a powerful avalanche in the earthquake-ravaged centre of the country. Italy's Civil Protection agency confirmed the Hotel Rigopiano had been engulfed by a two-metre high wall of snow and that emergency services were struggling to...
A 15-year-old boy in the Mexican city Monterrey has opened fire on a class full of students shooting his teacher and at least one other before turning the gun on himself. El Universal newspaper in Mexico reported that the student at the private American school, Noreste first opened shot his teacher before turning on the other...
The gunman suspected of killing 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day has been caught by police in the city's Esenyurt district, the Hurriyet newspaper website and other media reports said on Tuesday. The man, who media quoted police as saying had operated under the cover name Abu Muhammed Horasani,...
A shooting has taken place outside a primary school in Glasgow as children were being dropped off. Police confirmed the gun was fired as the morning bell rang at St George’s RC Primary and are now investigating the incident. Pictures from Twitter show a police helicopter circling overhead while Police Scotland said...
A tramper is being flown out of a North Island national park after spending a night in the open with an injured shoulder. Rescue Co-ordination Centre senior search and rescue officer John Dickson said a 69-year-old man and a 14-year-old youth were being ferried to a hut for treatment after one of them was hurt on the first day...
A man thought to be in his late 50s has died after part of a cliff collapsed onto a beach at Thorpeness in Suffolk as he was walking his dog. Following numerous 999 calls police were called to the scene by the ambulance service at about 1.25 pm today (14 January) and a rescue operation launched. Coastguard Rescue Teams from...
Police and the UK Coastguard received multiple 999 calls at about 1pm on Saturday, after the cliff fall at Thorpeness Beach in Suffolk. Rescue helicopters, as well as fire and lifeboat crews were deployed to the scene after reports a man had been trapped. One witness, who did not want to be named, told the Ipswich Star...
A woman who was taken as a baby from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1998 has been found safe, US authorities said today, and the South Carolina woman she believed to be her mother has been arrested for kidnapping. Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, was located in Walterboro, South Carolina, according to the Jacksonville...
A Denver police officer has been punished for leaving his horse without food or water before it became sick and had to be put down. A disciplinary report released Monday said Officer Joseph Teeter didn’t mean to harm the horse, named MC Hammer, when he left it unattended for 16 hours in September. The report said the...
Five Emiratis were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The men were carrying out humanitarian, educational and development work in Afghanistan. The UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, Juma Al Kaabi, was also injured in the explosion, in Kandahar, as previously reported. The dead were named on Wednesday as Mohammed Ali...
Winnipeg police have begun an investigation into alleged explosives trafficking in the city, an extensive probe that’s swept multiple locations in the city and resulted in the seizure of numerous devices. On Monday, the Winnipeg Police Service confirmed its presence last week on College Ave. was in connection with an...