At least one person has died after a car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, police have said, according to local public broadcaster MDR. Between 60 to 80 people have also been injured, fire and emergency services have to...

Government may not be offering a VAT-free day this Yuletide season, but at least two stores are giving their customers savings of 17.5 per cent, the same rate as the Value Added Tax. Abed’s has been running a “VAT-free week” since Sunday, while...

Scene of an accident at Bank Hall, St Michael, near the Abundant Life Assembly. Barbados Fire Service and Emergency Ambulance Service on the scene. A lone male occupant in the vehicle which collided with a utility pole. The road has been cordoned off...

MADRID – A Madrid court has sentenced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Rodrigo Rato to almost five years in prison for corruption offences, the court said on Friday. Rato, who has denied any wrongdoing throughout a nine-year probe, sa...

ZAGREB  – A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to be a former student, entered a first-grade classro...

Barbados’ best boxers will enter the ring as professional boxing returns to Barbados for the first time in over a decade when the boxing card “Boxing Day” makes its debut at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on December 26. Managing Director a...

Walter Blackman never realised his boyhood dream of becoming Prime Minister of Barbados, but there could be little doubt of the profound impression he left on a cross section of Barbadians, according to tributes delivered at his funeral service yeste...

Scores of people accepted John Yarde’s invitation to join him last Saturday for “an incredible night of holiday magic and music” at his inaugural Christmas In My Yarde show. He said the feedback from patrons attending the sold-out event, held a...

The brother who was bullied by his older sibling for a number of years and ended up killing him was given a starting sentence of seven years for manslaughter by the No. 2 Supreme Court yesterday. However, Justice Randall Worrell, who pointed to Romme...

The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson is being charged with federal murder and stalking crimes, according to a court document filed on Thursday, alongside state murder and terrorism charges previously announced by...