Vicky Beeching - the British singer who's one of the biggest stars of America's Christian rock scene says she's gay. In her own words, she explains why she's determined to be part of change within the church itself.
Army veteran Dennis Hutchings died in Belfast on Monday after contracting Covid-19 while he was on trial over a 1974 Troubles shooting.
The clean-up was already underway on Monday in the flood-ravaged Indian state of Kerala as the official death toll continued to rise. Footage showed local residents wandering around their mud-filled homes. Nearby, teams with diggers attempted to stem the flow of a river that was still running dangerously high. The death toll rose to 35 on Monday, according to the latest figures reported in The Times of India. Torrential rain has battered the coastal state since Friday (October 15), triggering landslides and causing rivers to swell.
At least seven migrants have died in the freezing no-man's land at Belarus's border with the European Union. Minsk has been subject to sanctions over last year's post-electoral crackdown ordered by strongman Alexander Lukashenko. His regime is accused of encouraging charter flights from Iraq and Turkey and then sending them towards the border, with neighbouring Lithuania wondering how thousands have come their way, compared with 80 migrants for all of 2020.
The continuing aftermath from the murder of Sir David Amess dominates the nation’s front pages.
Brian Laundrie's father tears protest sign out of lawn
At least one person has been killed and several have been wounded in a shooting at Grambling State University in Louisiana. The shooting happened on campus in the early hours of Sunday morning during a homecoming event. Multiple shots were fired at 1.15am local time in the quad area of the university’s main campus, a spokesperson said.
Five people killed in a small Norwegian town last week were all stabbed to death and not shot with a bow and arrows as initially suspected, police said on Monday. Three people were also injured, including an off-duty police officer who was shot with the bow and arrow in the early phase of the 35-minute rampage. "Five people were killed with stabbing weapons," police inspector Per Thomas Omholt told a news conference.
UK’s planning was too ‘narrowly and inflexibly based on a flu model’
US government says it is aware of reports as Christian group sends warning to religious missions
Covid-19 cases in the UK are at their highest level for almost three months.
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Beijing's property tax plans and fresh signs of weakening in China's housing market knocked real estate shares in the country on Monday despite the central bank's efforts to calm nerves over China Evergrande Group's debt woes. Bonds in the sector, however, enjoyed a day of healthy gains following upbeat central bank comments and after developer Kaisa Group said it had paid the coupon on one of its dollar bonds and planned to make a payment on a second this week. The CSI300 Real Estate Index, which tracks the stocks of China's biggest developers, fell 2.6% with China Vanke and Poly Development dropping more than 3%.
Emiliano Sala: Man pleads guilty to charge relating to flight which killed footballer
Former US Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell died on Monday morning, October 18, due to complications from COVID-19, his family announced on Facebook.Powell was fully vaccinated against the virus, his family noted. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather, and a great American,” they wrote.Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to the public on Monday morning from Washington.“He gave the State Department the very best of his leadership, his experience, his patriotism. He gave us his decency. And the State Department loved him for it,” Blinken said of the “beloved” Powell.“He was a man of ideas, but he wasn’t ideological. He was constantly listening, learning, adapting. He could admit mistakes. It was just another example of his integrity … I was a huge admirer of Secretary Powell. I always will be,” Blinken said.Powell, a four-star general who served under Republican president George W Bush, was a key figure in the decision-making leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was 84 years old. Credit: US Department of State via Storyful
But more than a third of those surveyed still plan to holiday within the UK next year
New film will follow last year’s sequel ‘Wonder Woman 1984’
Detectives believe suspect may have become ‘self-radicalised’ online during lockdown
Three white men in the US state of Georgia will go on trial Monday in the high-profile shooting death of a Black jogger that sparked a national outcry and helped fuel last summer's social justice protests.
A young woman has been killed in a hit and run in Wood Lane, London on Tuesday, police believe. Initial enquiries reveal her injuries were caused as a result of a road traffic collision, police said. The victim, believed to be aged 23, was pronounced dead after paramedics dashed to the scene.
Thirty days on, the eruption activity at La Palma’s Cumbre Vieja volcano shows no signs of slowing, with video from the morning of October 19 documenting rivers of lava flowing across the island.By Sunday, October 17, at least 1,956 structures had been destroyed by lava flows covering 811.8 hectares (3.1 square miles), according to the European Union’s Copernicus satellite program.Aerial and thermal footage, released by the Spanish Geological and Mining Institute (IGME), shows the lava flow from the air on the morning of October 19. Credit: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España via Storyful
The sock was found in 2002 to have contained traces of the murder weapon
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