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 ...

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 ...

The names of the 11 people killed in Saturday’s attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh have been released, with the oldest aged 97.   Two brothers and a husband and wife were among those killed. Six people were injured, including four policemen.  The suspect, Robert Bowers, 46, is in custody and faces 29 criminal counts in what is thought to ...

 The Leicester City owner’s helicopter has crashed in a car park outside the club’s ground as it left the stadium following a Premier League match. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was in the helicopter when it came down at about 20:30 BST on Saturday, a source close to the family has told the BBC.   One witness said he saw Leicester player Kasper ...

Eleven people have been killed, officials say, in a gun attack on a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The gunman, who opened fire as the Tree of Life synagogue held a service, was later taken into custody.   President Donald Trump said “a lot of people” had been killed and injured in a “wicked act of mass ...