A Dutch court extended the custody of the man who paid the rent on a farmhouse where six members of a family were found locked away in a secret room this week.
Politicians were dragged out by security guards for heckling leader Carrie Lam as Hong Kong's parliament descended into chaos.
Former footballer Paul Gascoigne has been cleared of sexually assaulting a woman on a train after he kissed her on the lips.
Elijah E Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a US House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died yesterday of complications from long-standing health issues. He was 68.
For the record, Wednesday was the 1,000th day of Donald Trump's presidency. He spent it the usual way, by saying unusual things.
Catalonia should hold a new vote on independence from Spain within two years, the head of the region's government said yesterday in a fresh challenge to Madrid following days of unrest by pro-separatist protesters.
Police have freed hundreds of manacled boys from a madrassa in northern Nigeria for the third time in a month, raising fears of systemic torture and sexual abuse in Islamic schools there.
