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Police have arrested a 67-year-old man in connection with the death of a woman over 30 years ago. Shona Stevens, 31, was found badly injured on a footpath in a wooded area near to the rear of Alder Green in the Bourtreehill Park area of Irvine on Thursday, November 10, 1994 and died later in hospital. The police investigation was hampered after vital evidence from the crime scene was feared to have been blown away by the downdraught of the helicopter ­airlifting Shona to hospital in Glasgow. Shona sadly died three days later after sustaining serious head injuries. Five weeks...

"Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire - unconditionally - and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute," said Phnom Penh's UN ambassador.Thailand and Cambodia clashed for a third day on Saturday (Jul 26), as the death toll from their bloodiest fighting in years rose to 33. A long-running border dispute erupted into intense conflict involving jets, artillery, tanks and ground troops on Thursday, prompting the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis on Friday. After the closed meeting in New York, Cambodia's UN ambassador Chhea Keo said his country wanted a ceasefire. "Cambodia...

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Warning: This report contains themes of racism and homophobia which viewers may find upsetting. Sky's Tom Cheshire meets the people behind a self-declared whites-only town in rural Arkansas. The group says it’s about freedom and community - but critics say it’s a dangerous step toward organised hate.

After finding fame and fortune in Riverdance and other stage shows, Michael Flatley is to seek a new role: president of Ireland. The Irish American dancer and impresario planned to move back from Monaco to Ireland and would seek nomination in the upcoming election, a Dublin court heard on Friday. An affidavit submitted during a high court case in relation to a legal dispute over renovations at Flatley’s mansion said the 67-year-old was “to seek nominations to run for president of Ireland”. An election for the largely ceremonial post must take place in the 60 days before 11 November, when...

Stages of dementia are marked by declines in memory and executive function. Previous research has examined whether micronutrient levels may relate to cognitive resilience. Copper is an essential trace element that participates in neuronal energy metabolism, neurotransmitter synthesis, and antioxidant regulation. A cohort of 2,420 participants aged 60 years or older was selected from the 2011–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). All participants had complete data on dietary intake and cognitive function. Dietary copper intake was derived from two averaged 24-hour dietary recalls. Cognitive function was measured using four instruments: the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST), the Animal...

Ferrero, the Italian candy maker, has agreed to acquire WK Kellogg, the American cereal giant, in a deal valued at $3.1 billion, the companies announced on Thursday. The takeover would combine Ferrero, a family-owned company that makes Tic Tacs, Ferrero Rocher candies and Nutella spreads, with the producer of Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Rice Krispies and other cereals. It represents Ferrero’s latest push to grow its business in North America following a series of acquisitions in recent years, including buying Nestlé’s U.S. confectionary business in 2018. The deal would expand Ferrero’s presence in North America and help the company move...

After I saw Oliver Stone’s movie JFK in 1991, I began reading books on the JFK assassination. As the years went on, I gradually became persuaded that the assassination was actually a highly sophisticated regime-change operation on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, i.e., the Pentagon and the CIA. But I never felt that the evidence was sufficient to persuade me beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the standard of proof in a criminal case. Then I read Douglas Horne’s five-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board. By the time I finished reading that book, I knew beyond...

Media Matters, a left-wing media watchdog, is reportedly facing an existential crisis as it drowns in government investigations, legal expenses from a defamation case and loss of donors, according to The New York Times. Media Matters’s future looks so dire since layoffs were reported in May that some involved with the organization have contemplated declaring bankruptcy or shutting down entirely in recent months, the NYT reported Friday, citing internal documents and 11 sources familiar with the situation. The Democrat-aligned group purports to monitor and combat “conservative misinformation in the U.S. media” and is under investigation by the Trump administration’s Federal...

A recent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) report highlighted critical national security failures in its Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) program that allowed approximately 800 known or suspected gang members to enter the United States.The report, titled “Criminality, Gangs, and Program Integrity Issues in Special Immigrant Juvenile Petitions,” examined more than 300,000 SIJ petitions submitted from fiscal year 2013 through February 2025, according to a USCIS press release on Thursday.The report found that 198,414 SIJ petitions were approved between fiscal year 2020 and 2024, and that half of SIJ petitioners in 2024 were over the age of 18 when they...

US politics polling on President Trump's popularity... Meanwhile polling regarding the Democratic Party gives it strongly negative... "finish the job" President Trump says that Israel... Facebook and Instagram forced to ban political advertising in the European Union... Iran holding a 'serious, frank and detailed' discussion with Britain, France and Germany... It's Saturday in Taiwan where recall elections are underway for 24 members... After two days of clashes Cambodia saying it wants an 'immediate ceasefire' with Thailand... A Reuters report says that entrepreneur Elon Musk shut down Starlink... ...federal judge in Illinois throwing out a US Justice Department lawsuit against that...

The FBI spied extensively on a Roman Catholic priest who declined to disclose private conversations he had with a parishioner, according to a report released earlier this week from the House Judiciary Committee that has raised religious liberty concerns. “This new information demonstrates that the FBI not only used its federal law enforcement resources to surveil certain Catholic Americans, but it also used these resources to investigate a clergy member,” the committee said, according to the July 22 report that Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, shared with the Catholic News Agency. After he expressed reluctance to comply with a January 2023...

Demilitarization and regime change might be in the cards...The latest clashes between Cambodia and Thailand over their decades-long border dispute, which were arguably initiated by the Thai military to restore its damaged prestige amidst a recent political scandal as explained here, could “move towards war” according to its acting Prime Minister. Thailand doesn’t recognize the International Court of Justice’s 1962 ruling in favor of Cambodia and rejects third-party mediation in the current conflict so the fighting will likely continue until it achieves some tangible goal.That scenario would naturally raise the question of Thailand’s endgame. It’s officially only defending itself from...

US President Donald Trump has flown into Scotland to meet with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and talk trade, as the UK seeks to refine its agreement with the US and reduce tariffs. President Trump will spend the weekend at his Turnberry golf course, which will be patrolled by an estimated 5,000 officers. Planned anti-Trump protests have triggered the UK’s biggest police operation since the death of the Queen.

Sunspots, those mysterious dark patches on the Sun's surface, have been observed by astronomers for thousands of years. Yet, despite centuries of study, no one fully understood why these spots could remain stable for such extended periods. New research, however, has finally cracked the case, revealing that the secret lies in a delicate balance between the Sun's magnetic fields and the pressure of its plasma. Sunspots have been documented since at least 27 B.C., with Chinese astronomers recording the phenomenon long before Galileo peered at the Sun through his telescope. Some historical records even suggest that Greek philosopher Anaxagoras might...

Officers with the DeKalb, Texas Police Department pulled over a paraplegic man and his fully blind best friend over a broken tag light on their country Cadillac. One of the officers claimed to smell marijuana and ordered both men out of the car (the search of which did not subsequently produce marijuana) - at night, on the side of a highway. One of the men couldn't see a thing, and the other had no use of legs and had no wheelchair. It went about how you might expect...

Can Republicans expand their House majority in the midterms by redistricting in red states? Donald Trump wants them to try. Republicans in Texas have already started a mid-cycle redistricting in the Lone Star state, hoping to create enough change to capture as many as five new House seats without directly challenging Democrat incumbents. Trump wants other red states to join the effort, and he's making progress:At Trump’s urging, Texas Republicans are looking to redraw congressional maps to favor GOP candidates during a 30-day special legislative session that started this week. Trump has said he wants to carve out five new...

Chronic respiratory diseases remain profitable but poorly treated, subjecting patients to expensive healthcare, impaired stamina and painful decline. However, there is an effective and inexpensive alternative: dimethyl sulphoxide, or DMSO.DMSO is an “umbrella remedy” that treats diverse ailments through its therapeutic properties, including reducing inflammation, improving circulation, and reviving dying cells. These properties uniquely address underlying causes of chronic respiratory diseases by reducing fibrosis and inflammation, restoring damaged organs and improving circulation.DMSO also addresses respiratory infections through antimicrobial activity, reduced lung inflammation and potentiation of antimicrobial therapies.Extensive published data and user reports demonstrate DMSO’s remarkable results for asthma, COPD, cystic...

It's striking how similar NPR's situation is to that of Planned Parenthood. Both organizations have an affiliate model and both just had a lot of federal money cut from their budgets. That means both are now hoping to find new sources of funding to keep the doors open. The NY Times reports there has been an increase in donations to PBS and NPR but so far the amount isn't nearly enough to offset the cuts.Over the last three months, as the prospect of the cuts intensified, roughly 120,000 new donors have contributed an estimated $20 million in annual value, said...

Airline travel is actually exceptionally safe compared to other forms of transportation such as driving your car, but it probably did not feel that way to passengers aboard a Southwest flight headed from Burbank, California to Las Vegas Friday. The plane came oh-so-close to disaster, and the pilot had to make a bold move to save the day:Two flight attendants were injured after a commercial Southwest Airlines jet suddenly dropped 475 feet to avoid a “midair collision” shortly after takeoff at a Los Angeles-area airport Friday, with one frightened passenger saying the aircraft “was just in a freefall.”Southwest Flight 1496...