Teenagers admit homophobic London bus attack on two women
Three teenage boys pleaded guilty on Thursday to public order offences over a homophobic attack on two women on a London bus in which one of the victims said the attackers had tried to force them to kiss each other. The incident took place in the earl…
UPDATE 1-Cambridge college to return looted Benin cockerel statue to Nigeria
A Cambridge University college said on Thursday it would return an antique statue of a cockerel to Benin City in Nigeria, more than 120 years after it was looted by British colonial forces. The move by Jesus College will likely step up pressure on oth…
UPDATE 1-Uruguay opposition claims victory in presidential vote, official candidate concedes
Uruguay’s conservative opposition party claimed victory as the official count of Sunday’s presidential election concluded on Thursday, and the candidate of the governing party conceded defeat. First, there was a tweet from the opposition National Part…
Paris auction offers chance to step into Napoleon's shoes
A pair of boots thought to belong to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is expected to fetch up to 80,000 euros ($88,176) at a sale in Paris’ Drouot auctioneers on Friday. Auctioneers said they believed Napoleon may have owned the leather riding boots …
Italy uncovers plot to create new Nazi party
Italian police said on Thursday they uncovered a plot to form a new Nazi party and seized a cache of weapons during searches across the country. Police in 16 towns and cities from the Mediterranean island of Sicily to the Alps in northern Italy took pa…
UK band Massive Attack urges music industry to pursue greener gigs
British band Massive Attack has teamed up with climate scientists at England’s University of Manchester to reduce the environmental impact of live music gigs, it said on Thursday. Researchers at the university’s Tyndall Centre will use data from Massi…
Prayers, candles and blood at makeshift Baghdad martyrs' museum
Tear gas grenades lined up in columns. Photo after photo of young men, on posters that bear the dates their government killed them. What started as an ad hoc shrine to Iraqis killed in protests against government corruption has become a museum and me…
UPDATE 1-Sterling falls back from near seven-month highs reached on YouGov poll
Sterling briefly touched near seven-month highs against the euro on Thursday on a poll predicting a comfortable election victory for the ruling Conservatives, then slipped to end the day marginally lower. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on cou…
AP Interview: Ex-Polish president defends Biden and Burisma
Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former Polish president and currently a board member for Ukrainian gas company Burisma, says Hunter Biden was chosen to join its advisory board because of his name and that that is simply how the world of business works. … …
EXCLUSIVE-Finnish EU presidency to propose bloc's next budget at 1.07-1.08% of GNI – sources
The European Union’s current presidency Finland is expected to propose in the coming days that the bloc’s next 7-year budget starting in 2021 amounts to 1.07-1.08% of the member states’ gross national income, three diplomatic sources told Reuters. Fin…
Baffled German police offer reward to help solve jewellery heist
German police offered a reward of half a million euros on Thursday for clues that would help them find mystery robbers who smashed their way into a Dresden museum and made off with a haul of 18th century jewellery in one of Germany’s biggest heists. T…
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