A retired French surgeon who may have raped or sexually abused as many as 349 children over his near 30-year career stands trial today in what could be France's biggest paedophilia case.
Anxious shoppers emptied supermarket shelves as news filtered through of the Government's plans to put the country in a state of semi lockdown.
Bernie Sanders has conceded that he was losing the nominating contest to former vice-president Joe Biden and had failed to persuade Democrats that he was more electable.
Iraq's military yesterday said it has opened an investigation into a rocket attack hours earlier that killed three servicemen, including two Americans, at an Iraqi base housing coalition forces.
A civil servant said reporting Alex Salmond to police after an alleged sexual assault would have been "unthinkable" due to the upcoming Scottish independence referendum.
There's no place like home, right? Just as well, because it looks as though we will all be spending quite a bit more time there for the next while.
Vladimir Putin changed his mind and backed a plan to allow him to run for two more presidential terms because of the current turbulent period in the world, his spokesman said, in the Kremlin's first public explanation of a move that would let him rule until 2036.
