(BBC News) Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.
The hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.
The unit's lead consultant Dr. Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.
No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Canadians have crammed into a local airport and lined up along a major highway out of the Northwest Territories to escape wildfires, a day after authorities warned the blazes were moving closer to the territory’s capital and largest city, Yellowknife.
The Canadian government said Prime Justin Trudeau Minister will convene an emergency committee, known as the Incident Response Group, on Thursday to discuss the wildfires – the latest in a series of...
(BBC News) North Korea has said U.S. soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination" in the army.
The 23-year-old private dashed across the border from South Korea on July 18 while on a guided tour.
Private 2nd Class (PV2) King "expressed his willingness to seek refuge" in the North, the country's state media said.
The claims, which are the North's first public comments on the case, could not be verified...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A suspected air strike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region has killed at least 26 people, a hospital official says, as a state-appointed rights group detailed widespread killings of civilians since fighting broke out this month.
Last week, federal forces managed to push Fano militiamen out of most major towns in Amhara, but clashes have continued in other parts of the northern region, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a statement....
(BBC News) Thousands of Ecuadorian soldiers and police have been involved in a dawn operation to move a notorious gang leader to a maximum security jail.
Jose Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito", is accused of sending death threats to Ecuador's murdered presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
The anti-corruption campaigner was shot three times in the head leaving a campaign rally on Wednesday.
Before his murder, Villavicencio said he had been threatened by Fito.
"If I continue... mentioning Los Choneros...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A holy shrine in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz has come under a second deadly attack in less than a year with gunmen breaking into its grounds and opening fire.
Details have yet to be confirmed, but officials and state-linked media said two people entered the Shah Cheragh shrine through its southern gate on Sunday at 7 p.m. (15:30 GMT) and started shooting at security staff and worshippers, killing at least...
(BBC News) The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artefacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.
The art unit of Italy's police force found the items had been looted and sold to U.S. museums and private collectors in the 1990s.
Among the precious artefacts include pots, paintings, and sculptures up to 3,000 years old.
Several of the mosaics are worth tens of millions of euros.
The oldest item dates back to the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The death toll from wildfires on Hawaii’s Maui has risen to 67 as search teams combed through the smouldering ruins of Lahaina town and officials sought to determine how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort area with little warning.
Hawaii’s attorney general said on Friday that she was opening a probe into how authorities responded to devastating wildfires.
“The Department of the attorney general will be conducting a comprehensive review of critical...
(BBC News) Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature.
They have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics.
Scientists believe that an unknown force could be acting on the muons.
More data will be needed to confirm these results, but if they are verified, it could mark the beginning of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Wildfires have left a trail of destruction on the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing at least 36 people and forcing thousands to flee their homes.
The blazes, which continued to rage on Thursday, appear to have devastated the historic centre of Lahaina, the onetime capital of the former Kingdom of Hawaii.
While damage was still being assessed, witnesses said several significant sites appeared to have been consumed by the flames.
It was not immediately clear how all...
