A German former nurse accused of murdering 100 patients is due to go on trial in the northern town of Oldenburg. Detectives say Niels Hoegel, 41, administered fatal doses of medication to the people in his care at two hospitals in northern Germany.   His motive, they say, was to impress colleagues by trying to resuscitate the very patients he ...

 A Canadian mother has been reunited with her son who was abducted in 1987 as a toddler. Jermaine Allan Mann was allegedly taken by his father when he was 21 months old during a scheduled visit in Toronto.   He and his father lived under assumed names in the US until late last week, when his father was caught allegedly ...

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s mini-parliament has called for ending security coordination with Israeli forces in the West Bank, but says implementation is up to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Late on Monday, at the end of a two-day gathering, the Palestinian Central Council also called for suspending recognition of Israel. Abbas, who controls the council, has not implemented such decisions in ...

The White House has rejected suggestions that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric could be to blame for a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said on Monday it was “outrageous” to suggest that Mr Trump was at all responsible for the 11 deaths on Saturday.   She said the president and first lady will visit Pennsylvania on ...

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond poses for the media as he holds up the traditional red dispatch box, outside his official residence 11 Downing Street before delivering his annual budget speech to Parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. London, Oct 30 : Britain’s Treasury chief unveiled Monday a new tax on big internet companies’ revenues, insisting it ...

Fatema Miah: In my last few Climate articles I wrote climate science is interlinked to all subjects. I wrote how it has link with physics in the recent article. Climate science is a justice matter and therefore it is faith matter too.   Faith doesn’t limit to practice of a religion only, it’s about having any kind of principled belief. Justice ...

By Abu Sahid: Faith leaders from Tower Hamlets say they are “deeply concerned” by the sharp rise in Islamophobia.  The London Muslim Centre said government needs to do more to stop this and support Muslim organisations in the community. A Home Office report published last week said hate crime has increased dramatically in the last year compared to figures from ...

IBM announced Sunday it will acquire North Carolina-based open-source software company Red Hat in a $34 billion stock deal that the technology and consulting giant’s chief executive says will advance the company to the next step in cloud computing.   IBM and Raleigh-based Red Hat said in a joint statement that IBM would buy all Red Hat common shares at ...

Leicester City’s Thai billionaire boss was among five people killed when his helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Premier League side’s stadium car park moments after taking off from the pitch, the club said on Sunday.   A stream of fans already fearing the worst had laid out flowers, football scarves and Buddhist prayers outside the club’s King ...

Indonesia’s disaster agency says a Lion Air passenger jet crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta and was carrying 188 passengers and crew.   Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho posted photos on Twitter of debris including a crushed smartphone, books, bags and parts of the aircraft fuselage that had been collected by search and rescue vessels that have ...