Former President Barack Obama has called for tighter gun control (Picture: AP)Former US President Barack Obama has issued an emotional response following the horrific school shooting in Florida. And it couldn’t be more different to President Donald Trump’s. Emotional support dog helping Florida shooting victims worked at Orlando and Vegas attacks After 17 innocents were…

Toss India chose to bowl v South Africa India captain Virat Kohli chose to bowl in the final ODI, in Centurion, with the aim to « get used to a situation they might encounter in a crunch game ». India made one change from the team that sealed the series in Port Elizabeth, choosing to « rest Bhuvneshwar…

If LeBron James stays in Cleveland and the Cavs keep the players they got at the deadline, they could be looking at an enormous payroll and tax bill next season.

Even if you haven’t heard the term Afrofuturism before, you’ve certainly seen examples of it. It was coined by culture critic Mark Dery in a 1993 essay, Black to the Future (available in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture). It charts the rise of science-fiction-oriented art from black artists, starting with Sun Ra’s…

Die Türkei lässt den deutsch-türkischen Journalisten Deniz Yücel frei. Das meldete sein Arbeitgeber, die Zeitung „Welt“, am Freitag auf ihrer Website. Sein Anwalt Veysel Ok teilte auf Twitter mit: „Und endlich gibt es für meinen Mandanten Deniz Yücel einen Entlassungsbefehl.“ Die Bundesregierung bestätigte die Freilassung. „Jetzt müssen wir natürlich abwarten, was in den nächsten Minuten,…

Tackling child abuse was a priority for David Cameron partly because he was a father, a Labour MP said last night. But Theresa May has not taken as much interest in the issue since she entered Number 10, Sarah Champion said. In an interview with The House magazine, the MP for Rotherham said it was…

Berlin – Der Mann (19), der im Dezember versuchte, seine Ex-Freundin (17) in der Havel zu ertränken, ist tot. Der Afghane starb am 14. Februar im Berliner Virchow Klinikum, wie die Polizei gegenüber BILD bestätigte.  Bei dem Versuch, die 17-Jährige zu ertränken, war er selbst beinahe ertrunken. Der junge Mann hatte am 19. Dezember seine…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFred Guttenberg said he couldn’t remember if he had told his daughter Jaime that he loved herThe teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school on Wednesday has confessed to the shooting, police say. Nikolas Cruz, 19, said he arrived on campus and began…

Updated February 16, 2018 19:58:44 Photo: Barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Turnbull are at daggers drawn after the PM’s criticism of his colleague’s appeal. (ABC News: Georgina Piper) The Turnbull Government has sailed into a political crisis of its own creation, and one of its co-captains will have to walk the plank. The Coalition’s hold on…