The Cuban Coast Guard killed four people in a Florida-registered speedboat after the vessel crossed into the nation's waters and opened fire, Cuban officials said.
The Cuban Embassy said on X that the incident unfolded Wednesday morning, when the speedboat approached one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel in the Villa Clara province.
A top girls' private school has become the latest to announce closure following Labour's controversial tax raid on the sector.
Alderley Edge School for Girls in Cheshire will close this July, citing 'unprecedented cost pressures including the introduction of VAT on school fees'.
Larry Summers will resign from his teaching roles at Harvard University at the end of this academic year, it was announced on Wednesday.
Summers, who had a personal friendship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, will give up his University Professorship title, which is the highest distinction an academic can receive at the Ivy League college.
A child who was allegedly tortured and forced to drink boiling water by his step-mother named her moments before he died, whispering 'Mummy' when asked who was to blame.
The tragic exchange was captured on camera as the boy, 12, lay in a hospital bed with catastrophic injuries.
Counter-terror police are investigating after a man took an axe and a knife into a Manchester mosque during Ramadan prayers.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are questioning a suspect, but still searching for a second man who was behaving oddly at the same time, and have increased patrols in the area.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a blunt assessment of Pauline Hanson, labelling her 'divisive' and the One Nation voter base as 'frustrated' during a rapid-fire interview.
In a short exchange, interviewer Sam Weir put a series of questions to the PM and asked for one-word answers. Albanese's description of One Nation voters seemed an acknowledgement that many Australians feel let down by the current government.
Yesterday, education secretary Jenny Gilruth stood up in parliament to announce that the SNP government will, after all, grant a public inquiry into grooming gangs.
That’s a welcome U-turn and the very least that Scottish survivors and victims’ support groups deserve. They, and the Scottish Conservatives, have been calling for this for months, but the SNP had – for reasons that still seem bewildering – fought against it tooth and nail.
A finance worker who felt forced to quit her job after bosses read her WhatsApp messages and discovered she was listening to 'steamy dragon porn' fantasy audiobooks has won £8,000 from an employment tribunal.
Kirsty Coleman resigned last year after her boss at Thermoelectric Conversion Systems, a Clydebank-based research and development company, went through 30 pages of her personal conversations.
Criminals are working off community sentences by sticking fake diamonds on greeting cards, Justice Secretary Angela Constance was warned yesterday.
The shock claim emerged as members of the Scottish Police Federation quizzed MSPs at an election hustings in Edinburgh.
Two men arrested in connection with the alleged kidnapping and death of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian have now been charged with murder.
Gerard Andrews, 29, and Daniel Stevens, 24, were handcuffed in the early hours of Wednesday morning after tactical police swarmed two properties in Sydney's north-west.
A grooming gangs inquiry is to be launched in a bid to protect children from the ‘horrendous harm of sexual abuse and exploitation’.
Professor Alexis Jay will chair a statutory probe to examine Scotland’s response to the problem – after months of delay by SNP ministers over whether to order one. The inquiry will focus on the prevalence of ‘group-based’ sexual abuse now and in the ‘recent past’, and leave ‘no stone unturned in the pursuit of justice for survivors’.
