F1 returnee Esteban Ocon shed the remaining rust off his Renault armor with a P8 points finish in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, but the Frenchman targets starting his future races further up the grid. Ocon launched his race from a lowly P14 but steadily moved up through the field to enter the top ten where…
Read moreDuchess of Sussex’s ex-husband Trevor Engelson marries heiress in lavish ceremony
The former husband of Meghan Markle remarried this weekend in a lavish Californian ceremony almost a year after his former wife became royalty. As the Duchess of Sussex was enjoying the heady days of new motherhood with Prince Harry by her side, on the other side of the world Trevor Engelson was also beginning a new…
Read more64 stone defendant in drug dealing case taken to hospital
A court hearing for a 64 stone defendant was delayed after he needed to be taken to hospital. Kenneth T Hicks, 48, had been expected to enter a plea in a cocaine dealing case in Virginia. Judge David J Novak had previously approved a plan authorising the FBI and US Marshals Service, if necessary, to…
Read moreUkraine’s Zelenskiy calls early elections as he disbands parliament in first act as president
Ukraine’s new president dismissed parliament and called a snap election just moments after being sworn into office on Monday. Volodymyr Zelensky, whose Servant of People party has no representation in the current parliament, also used his inaugural address to promise an end to the war in the east of the country and asked MPs to…
Read moreCourt rules Virginia Uber driver is Somali war criminal
A jury on Tuesday found a northern Virginia man who once served as a colonel in the Somali Army responsible for torturing a man more than 30 years ago under a government campaign against its perceived enemies. After more than three days of deliberations, the civil jury in the Washington suburb of Alexandria awarded a…
Read moreAustrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz ousted in no-confidence vote
Sebastian Kurz was voted out of office as Austrian chancellor on Monday, less than 24 hours after his party won a resounding victory in the European elections. Mr Kurz’s government lost a confidence vote in the Austrian parliament following the collapse of his coalition with the far-Right Freedom Party (FPÖ). Click Here: brisbane lions guernsey 2019…
Read moreAfD faces embarrassment after running out of candidates in local elections
The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is facing embarrassment after running out of candidates to fill local council seats. Despite disappointing overall results in the European elections, the party performed well in the former communist east and won a landslide in local council elections held the same day in the state of Saxony. But local…
Read moreBodies spotted in search for missing Himalaya climbers
Indian airforce helicopter pilots on Monday spotted five bodies high up in the Himalayas during an aerial search for eight mountaineers who were swept away in an avalanche last week, according to officials. Four British climbers, two from the US and one each from Australia and India were reported missing by colleagues on Friday after they…
Read moreCardinal George Pell calls child abuse charges ‘bizarre’ at launch of appeal
Jailed Australian Cardinal George Pell launched an appeal on Wednesday against his landmark conviction for child sex abuse, branding the charges against him as "bizarre" and "impossible". Pell, 77, left his prison cell under police guard to attend the two-day hearing, battling his conviction in December on five counts of sexually assaulting two choirboys in…
Read moreSix Hindu men convicted over rape and murder of Muslim girl, 8, in case that fanned Kashmir tensions
An Indian court on Monday convicted six men over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Jammu and Kashmir state, a case that fanned communal tensions in the disputed region. Asifa Bano belonged to a nomadic Muslim community – the Gujjars – that travelled around the forests near to the Hindu-majority city of…
Read more