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A policewoman who endured sexist comments at work has been awarded £275,000 in damages from her former force, it emerged today. Firearms officer Barbara Lynford won a sexual discrimination claim against Sussex Police after suffering […] […]

THE United States today put allies Singapore and Thailand as well as Vietnam on a human trafficking watch list, accusing them of failing to prevent women from being forced into prostitution. The move opens the […] […]

A two-year old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after being found unconscious at the bottom of a hotel swimming pool during England’s first World Cup match. The toddler was discovered in the […] […]

WASHINGTON—Canadian torture victim Maher Arar’s rendition ordeal is now a closed file in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision to end judicial review of the U.S. role in sending him to Syria eight […] […]

A tiger, several turtles, a monkey and the remains of a chimpanzee have been discovered in a household freezer Police found the dead animals in a raid on a suburban house in Coventry and have […] […]

THE driver in the car crash that killed ex-South African president Nelson Mandela’s great granddaughter will appear in court only after the World Cup finishes, prosecutors said today. “We expect him to appear on July […] […]

ENERGY giant BP presented a plan to contain more than 50,000 barrels a day of oil gushing from a ruptured Gulf of Mexico well by the end of June as President Obama likened the effects […] […]

Police have been placed on guard outside the family home where two baby girls were mauled by a fox, following online threats from animal rights activists. Four foxes have been trapped and killed in the […] […]

INDONESIAN police have raided high schools and checked students’ mobile phones for celebrity porn clips downloaded from the Internet. A police spokeswoman said the raids in East Java were part of the police response to the […] […]

BP executives could face up to 15 years in jail for their role in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, legal experts say. The advice from US legal experts came as executives from the world’s other major […] […]