A family accidentally donated $52,000 worth of jewellery to charity after the precious gems and diamonds were stashed inside a bag of old clothes. Jane Lowe asked her husband to hide her jewellery inside their home in Nova Scotia, eastern Canada, before they went on a trip. Before they left on...
UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday for its Nov. 29 intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil and its earnings from workers abroad. A Security Council resolution adopted...
The largest diamond ever discovered in North America was found in Canada and is on display at Phillips Auction in New York City. The diamond was uncovered by miners at Dominion Diamond Mines in Canada's North West Territories. At 552 carats, the yellow diamond is the seventh largest diamond ever found...
Associated Press has called Arizona for Joe Biden The state has not voted for a Democrat since Bill Clinton, but has been moving steadily towards Democrats in recent elections. Pundits have speculated that voters in Arizona were particularly put off by Donald Trump's animus towards the late John McCain. At the current...
A CCTV video of a pensioner has gone viral as he was seen fighting off an armed mugger who had tried to rob him at a cash-point. Former bus driver Trevor Weston had stopped at a Sainsbury's cash machine at 6am to get some money for his daily papers when...
Attorney-General Christian Porter says the government will seek to work around a controversial High Court ruling that non-citizens who identify as Aboriginal cannot be deported. In a split 4-3 decision yesterday, the High Court found Aboriginal people held a special status exempt from immigration laws, after considering the cases of...
The whole idea of running up the final score on an opposing team has divided sports fans for years. Some say it's all part of the game, while others feel it is rubbing it in the other teams' face and encourages unsportsmanlike conduct. One coach from New York state...
“Mean” Gene Okerlund, a World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer and famed interviewer, died Wednesday at the age of 76, the WWE announced. WWE did not release a cause of death. Okerlund was the most well-known professional wrestling interviewer, and perhaps the most iconic person in that role in sports. While...
Malacañang on Sunday defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s confession that involves sexual abuse, calling it just a “laughable anecdote” the President intentionally made up to dramatize the sexual abuse he suffered from a priest when he was still a minor. “In his inimitable allegorical style of dramatizing the sexual abuse the...
Killer whales have been “attacking” sailing boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, in encounters one mariner said felt “totally orchestrated” and another described as “like a sledgehammer”. Scientists have been left perplexed by a growing number of incidents since late July in which a pod of orcas have...