Image copyright AFP Image caption The traditional German hotel is in a popular hiking location in Bavaria German police probing the deaths of three people shot with crossbow arrows in a Bavarian hotel have found two more female bodies in a flat 400 miles away.The flat in Wittingen had been occupied by a 30-year-old woman…
Image copyright Getty Images A group of US consumers has been given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court to sue Apple over app prices.The iPhone users argued that there is no alternative place to buy an iPhone app, but that Apple takes a 30% commission on every sale, so therefore they are being overcharged.They claim…
Image copyright Getty Images A US author has lost a book deal after tweet-shaming a Washington DC metro worker for eating on a train.Natasha Tynes posted a picture of the staff member to her Twitter account, and tagged the woman’s employers.Amid an online backlash accusing Ms Tynes of racism, a publisher scrambled to pulp her…
Image copyright Tamara Stubbs Image caption The latest dive reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves – a new record An American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.Victor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean – the Pacific Ocean’s…
Image copyright Getty Images China has said it will impose tariffs on $60bn (£46bn) of US goods from 1 June, extending a bilateral trade war.The move comes three days after the US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn of Chinese imports.The escalation sent stock markets down, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing more than…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Among those reportedly affected by the sabotage attack was an oil tanker, Amjad (pictured above) Four commercial ships were targets of a “sabotage attack” off the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday, the country’s foreign affairs ministry has said.The incident reportedly took place near Fujairah port, just outside the Strait…
Along with tweetstorms, red hats and cries of “fake news,” giving his political opponents mocking nicknames is part of President Donald Trump’s signature style. When Trump came up with a new pet name for Pete Buttigieg, however, the South Bend mayor turned the joke back on the President. In an interview with Politico released on…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quietly made history on Friday, becoming the youngest woman to ever preside over the House of Representatives. The freshman congresswoman, a 29-year-old Democrat who represents New York’s 14th congressional district, took up Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s chair and ran the chamber for about an hour, Reuters reported. Members of Congress who temporarily preside…
It was meant to be a vigil for Kendrick Castillo, who was killed after he charged one of the two classmates who opened fire at his school in suburban Denver just the day before. But the gathering at a neighboring school Wednesday night quickly turned political. There were speeches by politicians and at least one…
NEW YORK — Democrats denounced a plan by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney to push Ukraine to open investigations that he hopes could benefit Trump politically, decrying it as an overt attempt to recruit foreign help to influence a U.S. election. But Rudy Giuliani late Friday said he does not plan to go to the…