Immy and the signed roof tile Michael Halliday, the former Ireland captain, has a broken pub roof tile on his mantelpiece. It is signed by Imran Khan. Because it was Imran who hit him out of Pagham Cricket ground when playing for Sussex against Ireland in 1977. Imran Khan made a hundred that day. When…

A first ever opposition victory signals voters’ disgust with corruption

Donald Trump claimed that « America is being respected again » and vowed to « secure peace » with North Korea.  Speaking at a rally in Elkhart, Indiana, the US president said his relationship with the secretive communist state’s leader Kim Jong-un was « good », adding that he would meet him « to secure a future of peace and prosperity for the world ».  He told his cheering supporters: « Something…

NITV News yesterday published a video which shows an unmarked police car in the Western Australian town of Thornlie swerving across the road toward William Farmer, an 18-year-old Indigenous man. Farmer was taken to Fiona Stanley hospital for treatment. « A WA Police Force officer at the centre of an internal investigation into an incident in…

Seven people have been found dead at a rural property in Western Australia (WA), police have confirmed. The bodies of four children and three adults were discovered in the town of Osmington, 280km (170 miles) south of Perth, on Friday. Two firearms were found at the scene. « The bodies of two adults were located outside…

Afiya Begum suffered nasty burns to her face and neck (Picture: BPM Media)An acid attack victim has bravely shown off the severe burns she suffered in an ambush inside her own apartment building. Afiya Begum was left with burns to her face, shoulder and neck from the attack outside her home in Acocks Green, Birmingham. Women…

Royal Bank of Scotland has been handed a giant $4.9billion [£3.6bn] fine to end a US probe into how it mis-sold toxic products that helped tip the world into a financial crisis in 2008. The bank’s chief executive Ross McEwan said the deal with US regulators over the allegations that it misled investors was a…

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Some Panasonic executives are expressing hesitation about new investments with Tesla in battery manufacturing, according to a report out Thursday in the Nikkei Asian Review. Tesla and Panasonic were expected to set up a new factory together…

David McNew/Getty Images by John Binder10 May 2018Washington, D.C.0 10 May, 201810 May, 2018 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen begged foreign asylum-seekers to “please come to the ports of entry” on the U.S.-Mexico border during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. Nielsen pleaded with asylum-seekers to enter the U.S. by using the ports…

Milan winger Suso reflects on the Coppa Italia final loss to Juventus – “we weren’t good, we weren’t up to it, the rest doesn’t really matter”. The Rossoneri were beaten 4-0 last night, with goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma making two glaring errors which led to goals. There was controversy over the Juve opener, with the Diavolo…