Month: January 2018

South Coast Correctional Centre in Nowra, NSW, was set on fire after at least 300 inmates started a riot when a prisoner refused to leave his maximum security cell. Via: Nowra jail set on fire as prisoners riot

Crystal Palace’s Scott Dann and Jason Puncheon have been ruled out for the remainder of the season after Roy Hodgson confirmed both had suffered serious knee injuries on Sunday. Via: Crystal Palace's Dann and Puncheon out for rest of season

A NSW jail has been placed in lockdown after a maximum-security prisoner deliberately started a fire in his cell, authorities say.The prisoner lit the blaze… Via: NSW prison locked down after fire in cell

Man is arrested after shocking fellow travellers on delayed flight to Malaga by opening door and getting out on to the wing – taking hand luggage with himAn impatient Ryanair passenger shocked fellow travellers when he forced his way out of the emergency exit after getting fed up with waiting Read more…

President intervenes with provocative tweet after UN ambassador Nikki Haley distances US from Seoul’s plan to hold cross-border talksDonald Trump has taunted North Korea’s leader about the size of his nuclear arsenal after his UN envoy, Nikki Haley, dismissed the value of proposed high-level talks between Pyongyang and Seoul.The US Read more…

Canadian, 34, who was rescued with wife and children from Afghan captivity, is also charged with forcible confinement and making death threatsJoshua Boyle, the Canadian man held hostage by Taliban-linked militants for nearly five years, has been arrested in Ottawa and is facing more than a dozen charges including sexual Read more…

Cambodian police allege James Bernard King refused to let the women and two children leave the house, resulting in two-hour stand-off with policeAn Australian man in Cambodia has been arrested and charged for allegedly locking up his girlfriend, her younger sister and her niece and then demanding sex.James Bernard King, Read more…