A woman who falsely accused a man of raping her after he refused to pay her $1,200 for consensual sex when she was 19 years old was sentenced to probation on Monday (Oct 27).Claris Ling Min Rui, now aged 20, must remain indoors from 10pm to 6am for a year, and perform 60 hours of community service as part of her sentence.On Sept 1, Ling pleaded guilty to one count each of harassment and giving false information to a public servant.She met the 43-year-old man on Sugarbook, a sugar dating app, and agreed to go on a date with him in March this year.The man had agreed to pay her $200 for her «time».After going for drinks at a bar, the pair went to a Cavenagh Road hotel where they engaged in consensual sex. Things soured when Ling asked the man for $1,200 and he refused. The Straits Times reported in September that the man offered Ling $500 after she scolded him. Angered, she called the police and claimed that she was raped by the man while intoxicated.Police officers who attended to the case reviewed the hotel's closed-circuit television footage and found that it was inconsistent with Ling's account.

The male driver who allegedly collided with a cyclist along Nicoll Highway and killing him in 2023 has now been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Tan Yong Ren, 35, was alleged to have driven against the flow of traffic along Nicoll Highway towards the direction of Guillemard Road at about 5am on Dec 19 of that year when he collided into 45-year-old British national, Rajan Singh Basra.Singh was conveyed unconscious to hospital where he later died of his injuries.The police said in a news release then that traffic police officers arrested Tan within 16 hours of the accident after ground inquiries, with the aid of a witness and video footage from the police and the Land Transport Authority.Previously, Tan was handed seven charges, including dangerous driving causing death; fleeing the scene without rendering assistance; and consuming alcohol before driving. On Monday (Oct 27), the police said in a news release that the charge of dangerous driving causing death will be revised to an offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, after a review and with the concurrence of the Attorney-General's Chambers.

The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for a stopgap funding measure to bring employees back to work with back pay.

A Quinnipiac University polls shows Democrats overwhelmingly support the NFL’s pick for the halftime show while nearly as many Republicans oppose it.

A special session of the Virginia General Assembly starts Monday. It’s part of a nationwide redistricting race, with Indiana’s Republican governor calling a special session there too.

Ringleader Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, and four associates drugged their victims, aged between 16 and 30, at flats across Dundee between 2021 and 2022.

Dashcam footage shows the two thugs speeding up behind the victim on a country road and crashing into the back of him.

When Sadiq Khan claimed that his city does not have the same grooming gang culture seen in other cities and towns across the UK, it caused anger and incredulity.

King Charles was heckled during a cathedral visit today by a protester who asked him about Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship.

It was a deeply emotional moment when a Coast Guard helicopter landed in Flateyri yesterday, October 26, 2025 — exactly thirty years after Coast Guard helicopters first arrived in the town following the avalanche from Skollahvilft, which claimed twenty lives. This time, the helicopter carried passengers who had come to take part in a memorial ceremony honoring the victims of the disaster.

The Dagrenning Search and Rescue Team from Hvolsvöllur and the Air Rescue Team from Hella were called out yesterday to assist a mother and son who became trapped in their camper van in Landmannalaugar due to impassable conditions.

A blizzard system southwest of Iceland is rapidly moving toward the country. Forecasts indicate 24-hour snowfall of 20 to 30 centimeters, though there remains considerable uncertainty about the exact timing of the storm’s arrival.

London (HOL) – The 5th British-Somali Global Graduation Ceremony 2025 was held on Sunday in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to celebrate the academic achievements of British-Somali graduates from leading UK universities.

Libreville, le 28 octobre 2025. Ce 20 octobre 2025, une opération conjointe menée à Franceville, dans la province du Haut-Ogooué, par la Direction Provinciale des Eaux et Forêts, la Direction de Lutte Contre le Braconnage (DLCB) et l'antenne de la Police Judiciaire (PJ) du Haut-Ogooué, appuyée par l'ONG Conservation Justice, a débouché sur l'interpellation de trois individus avec deux pointes d'ivoire sectionnées en 17 morceaux. Tous les trois de nationalité gabonaise travaillant à (...) - SOCIETE / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

Richard Taylor, formerly deputy registrar of the University of Leicester, has succesfully sued Coogan, who was a writer and producer of the 2022 film, The Lost King.

The Prime Minister said there were 'questions' for Reform leader Nigel Farage following Ms Pochin's outburst.

Robert McCarthy and his wife Amanda have accused the house behind their home, near Nazeing in Essex, of perpetrating a 'systematic destruction' of their garden.

It was this weekend revealed how Chancellor Rachel Reeves could hit those with homes worth more than £2million with a punitive levy in the Budget next month.

The Duchess of Sussex uploaded the footage - a montage of short clips - to Instagram this evening accompanied with the song 'California Dreaming'.

Fergie has lived with her disgraced ex-husband in Royal Lodge, Windsor, since 2008.

Ringleader Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, and four associates drugged their victims - aged between 16 and 30 - at flats across Dundee between 2021 and 2022.

TEHRAN – With the financial support of the Government of Japan, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a cooperation document, aiming to help revive the drying Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran.

TEHRAN -The head of the Department of Environment (DOE) has said that peace and environment are the two fundamental pillars of mankind's survival, as without peace, no conservation plan will be sustainable, and without a healthy environment, no peace can be lasting.

Council Directive 2011/64/EU, known as the Tobacco Taxation Directive (TTD), entered into force in 2011 with two main objectives: to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market and provide a high level of public health protection. More than ten years after its adoption, the directive is no longer fit for purpose. The European Commission's 2020 evaluation highlights several key issues regarding the TTD's effectiveness, and recommends updating it to address emerging tobacco products, such as e cigarettes. As part of the EU's Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission suggested revising the TTD to achieve the target of a tobacco-free generation by 2040. In July 2025, the Commission presented its proposal for a revision of the TTD, focusing on three main aspects: i) increasing the EU's minimum tax rate to address disparities between Member States; ii) extending the directive's scope to new products, such as e cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches, which would make them subject to new minimum taxes; and iii) strengthening controls on raw tobacco to prevent diversion to illicit markets. This implementation appraisal (IA) analyses the existing legal framework and outlines its core components. It also examines the key findings of the 2020 evaluation and the main features of the Commission proposal for revision of the TTD. Finally, it considers the European Parliament's position, the written questions submitted by its Members and the views of a sample of relevant stakeholders, including institutional bodies. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

At no point in more than 30 years have Armenia and Azerbaijan been closer to achieving lasting peace, and yet the so far bumpy road to peace continues to appear vulnerable to domestic and external factors. On 8 August 2025, in Washington DC, the leaders of both countries signed a Joint Declaration committing to achieve peace and initialled a 17-article peace agreement, the product of months of closed-doors and exclusively bilateral negotiations between the two countries. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in conflict over Nagorno Karabakh since the end of the Cold War, in the longest-running conflict in the post-Soviet space. Two bloody war episodes, in the 1990s and in 2020, have alternated with periods of frozen conflict over three decades, leaving behind more than 30 000 casualties, over a million displaced people from both sides, and a long list of seemingly inextricable mutual grievances running deep in both countries' societies. Decades of international mediation, within the OSCE Minsk group, then in parallel strands under the aegis of Russia, the EU and the US, ended abruptly in September 2023, with Azerbaijan's lightning military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, leading within days to the dissolution of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and to the forced exodus of some 100 000 ethnic Armenians. In the dangerous security vacuum created after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which altered the power balance in the region and discredited the role of Russia as security guarantor and peace broker, fears over a third war intensified. Against all odds, after months of exclusively bilateral negotiations, both parties announced in March 2025 that they had agreed on a draft peace treaty, establishing the basis for future peaceful mutual relations but leaving aside contentious issues, such as border delimitation and connectivity. However, the announcement came with Azerbaijan's precondition, ahead of the final signature, of removing from the preamble of the Armenian constitution a reference that Azerbaijan considered to be an implicit territorial claim. The seemingly impossible task for Armenia, where a constitutional change must be approved by popular referendum, appeared to put the peace process in limbo sine die. The 8 August Washington Summit gave a decisive new impetus to the process, although Azerbaijan maintains its precondition regarding what it sees as necessary changes to the Armenian constitution. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Earlier, Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov informed Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin that testing of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile had been successfully completed

«Any initiative implemented without Moscow's participation is eventually thwarted,» Siyamand Kacmaz said

North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Son Hui hailed the warm atmosphere during the Beijing talks in early September

The meeting took place in the Kremlin Senate

BRICS is the association of countries «building up relations based on mutual respect and adherence to the consensus principle,» Alexey Overchuk said

Annie Kilner, a model and influencer, and Sophie Haynes, former partner of convicted criminal Gregory Bell, are joint directors and owners of the company Demure Diamonds Ltd.

Vile comments about her appearance, personal attacks on her character and even death threats; over the course of her tenure as head judge on Strictly, Shirley Ballas has seen it all.

The 2000 Arta peace process held in Djibouti, is hailed as a milestone event for it laid the foundation for a new political dispensation in Somalia. Under the tutelage of H.E. President Ismail Omar Guelleh, the Arta Peace and subsequent 2008 Djibouti Peace Accord helped reset Somalia on the right path, averting perpetual collapse while initiating the transitional governance structure and institutionalizing the subsequent federal order. In Omar Guelleh, Somalia can count on a fraternal, visionary statesman committed to the development of the Somali security architecture and establishment of the institution-building processes that underpin its nascent democracy and its people’s gradual march towards peace, development and social prosperity.

Germany’s decline is becoming “dramatic” after years of flat GDP and failed recovery efforts, ifo chief Clemens Fuest has warned Read Full Article at RT.com

A new digital innovation has hit the Malawian market — Antchito, a mobile application developed by local tech firm Virtual Tech, has officially launched to help employers manage domestic workers, shop attendants, and casual laborers with ease, transparency, and confidence. The app also caters to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that lack formal systems for […] The post Antchito App Launches in Malawi to Protect Employers and Simplify Workforce Management appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.