All news by author: Rachel Hagan

A spokesperson for the local water utility firm, Johannesburg Water, said it suspects the blue water was contaminated by copper in the building, but samples had been taken for testing in South Africa

An inquest on Thursday at Cheshire Coroners' Court heard how dad-of-two Rob McHarry collapsed while jogging in Portugal with friends from his running club

Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's comments came after seven people were shot dead at a synagogue in East Jerusalem and as violent incidents were reported in Jerusalem and the West Bank

Astiyazh Haghighi and Amir Mohammad Ahmadi were each sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison, for "corruption on earth and incitement to prostitution" following dancing in Freedom Square, Tehran

An estimated 24 centimetres of rainfall – equal to an entire summer’s worth of rain – fell in Auckland, New Zealand on Friday, making it the city’s wettest day on record

Witnesses described horrifying scenes in South Africa of a bloodied garden piled with bodies after the murderers killed eight people at a birthday party

A young boy had been sitting near a fence with a small group of pupils in school when he was suddenly stabbed in the head with a knife that was around 30cm long

Police say the mosque was full of worshippers at the time of the attack and that part of the building has collapsed causing over 100 people to be injured

A gold-leaf-covered mummy was discovered sealed inside a sarcophagus that had not been opened for 4,300 years which an archaeologist called the "most complete mummy found in Egypt to date"

A school is under investigation for sharing pictures of teachers using electric razors to shave male students' hair with the caption 'school discipline by teacher and youth council'

The men set to be executed had been found guilty of killing thousands of military recruits in Iraq in 2014, as terror group ISIS carried out what was one of the worst massacre's in the country's history

In the videos, tourists can be seen trapped in their seats with their feet up in the air at the highest point of the giant malfunctioning swing at a theme park

The latest deaths take the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in January to 29, as an elderly woman and two young men were shot in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin

María Ángela Olguín, 16, told police she had been held captive with "many other young girls" in Mexico City before a passer-by found her dumped alive in a rubbish tip

The unnamed mother said she was exhausted from a 17-hour labour and asked several times for the baby to be taken to the nursery at the Sandro Pertini hospital in Rome before the tragedy happened

Close to the Russian border, the northern Chinese city of Mohe is not a stranger to cold climes with winter periods usually lasting eight months but this record-breaking spell reached -53C

The Russian warship Admiral Gorshkov armed with the deadly missiles sailed dangerously close to the US with the ship's commander boasting that the Gorshkov is “the most dangerous enemy in the world’s oceans”

Movement in the capital of Pyongyang, North Korea, has been restricted from Wednesday to Sunday as its residents have also been ordered to check their temperature daily

Afghanistan is facing its coldest winter in 15 years, with temperatures dropping as low as -34 degrees Celsius, as the death doubles in less than a week

According to a new report, a North Korea hit squad has been enlisted in an attempt to stamp out foreign television, pornography, haircuts and even birthday parties, according to a defector's testimony

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been—largely, but not exclusively, because of the war in Ukraine

China could use small chips in devices to spy on Britons and a report says the potential threat is much higher than that from Chinese-made components in mobile phone masts which led to a Government ban on Huawei products

The news comes as demonstrations continue to spread through the country, with new clashes reported in Cusco, the gateway to the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu

One witness in Monterey Park, near LA, said she saw a gunman and three bodies — two women and one person who he said was the boss of the club

The Oxfordshire man said he was an "enemy of Britain" after travelling in 2014 to Syria to allegedly fight with ISIS as a teenager