He made the remarks on Thursday when he toured and inspected staff houses and offices at Cobbe Barracks. “I have seen most of the infrastructure is in a dilapidated state and we cannot allow that. We need to renovate them for a better welfare of our men and women in uniform,” Mutharika observed.

A man has been convicted of murdering his partner before dumping her body at a doctors surgery. Ronald Cooke, 55, has been convicted of killing Tina Billingham after stabbing her through the heart and liver with a sword stick. Cooke, who Ms Billingham had lived with for more than 15 years, attacked her and then dumped her body inside a GP surgery.

FC Barcelona players held a minute's silence before training. Barcelona’s players and coaching staff held a minute’s silence before training today in tribute to the victims of the terror attack in the city. Barca had already confirmed that players of all their teams would wear black armbands during....

BARCELONA, Spain — Police on Friday shot and killed five people wearing fake bomb belts who staged a car attack in a seaside resort in Spain’s Catalonia region hours after a van plowed into pedestrians on a busy Barcelona promenade, killing at least 13 people and injuring over 100 others.

Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. In this Feb. 13, 2013 photo, a Maasai boy and his dog stand near the skeleton of an elephant killed by poachers outside of Arusha, Tanzania.

Volunteers prepare graves during a mass funeral for victims of heavy flooding and mudslides in Regent at a cemetery in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. The government has begun burying the hundreds of people killed earlier this week in mudslides in Sierra Leone’s capital, and it....

By Juno McEnroe. Minister for Transport and Sport Shane Ross has confirmed he will consider referring the critical report on ticketing touting in Rio to corporate enforcement investigators. The minister was speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on Sport today as members continued questioning him....

Centurion, South Africa, Aug 18 – The 20-year-old South African model that Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe is alleged to have assaulted was offered cash to make potential charges “go away”, a lawyer said Thursday. Police have said they were also on high alert to make sure that the 52-year-old....

Barcelona, Spain, Aug 18 – In Barcelona’s old town, dozens of stunned tourists dressed in shorts and t-shirts stood behind security tape in the early hours, witnesses to the shocking attack on the famous boulevard of Las Ramblas. Thirteen people were killed and more than 100 injured when a white van....

Footage shows aftermath in Las Ramblas after van ploughs into pedestrians Facebook/Dror Cohen via Storyful A family in Australia are appealing for help to find their seven-year-old boy who is still missing following the Barcelona terror attack in Las Ramblas.

The remains of 17th century mikvas baths at the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania. Jon Seligman. Ritual baths have been excavated at the Great Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, after the building was destroyed by Nazis during the Holocaust and then the Russians during the country's Soviet years.

Jersey Shore stars' Vinny Guadagnino, Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Sammi 'Sweetheart' Giancola, Deena Nicole Cortese, DJ Pauly D, and Jenny 'JWoww' Farley at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards Getty. The Jersey Shore cast is taking a walk down memory lane, a promo clip of the show's....

Citizens of Australia and other Commonwealth countries should share the same migration rights in the UK as EU nationals after Brexit, the government has been told. The demand comes at the early stages of the two-year-long divorce talks between the UK and the EU, with Britain's split from Brussels scheduled for 2019.

Job cuts are keeping the chicken industry afloat. A chicken farm employee pets a hen in Gaesti, southern Romania, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. The European Union said Friday that it plans to hold an extraordinary meeting late next month over a growing tainted egg scandal as it revealed that products....

DURBAN -The situation at George Campbell School of Technology escalated on Friday morning as pupils continued protesting against teachers who apparently called them monkeys. Andreas Mathios, Blue Security community and media liaison officer, said police are in attendance and are controlling the situation.