For Ukraine – pitched against Russia’s larger and more powerful military – the use of unconventional tactics such as assassinations is seen as a vital way to fight back. There is no official confirmation yet of who was behind the killing on Tuesday in Moscow of the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defence [&

You may think that ticks are a summer problem, so you will be sorry to hear that the blood-sucking pests are actually active all year. It’s true that ticks go into a low energy state in winter, meaning they are reluctant to move around and usually go into hiding under snow, leaves and brush, according […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-monopoly regulators on Monday imposed special conditions for a period of 10 years on Walmart’s Mexico subsidiary for allegedly pressuring suppliers. The decision follows a related $4.6 million fine handed down by the regulatorsknown as the Federal Competition Commission, for alleged monopolistic practices. Wal

A senior member of an organised crime group that ran an amphetamine lab in Scotland has been jailed for 13 years. Colin Wright, 38, fled to Murcia in Spain to avoid capture after his fellow gang members were caught in National Crime Agency (NCA) operation in March 2021. Wright, formerly from Motherwell, was the leader […]

Stinking pigs in the cargo hold forced a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Mexico to make an unscheduled stopover in Bermuda. Halfway through the flight last Friday, a strong smell spread through the cockpit of flight KL685, coming from pigs in the cargo hold, said a spokesperson for the Dutch airline KLM on Monday. As […]