All news by author: Ryan Fahey

Many of the survivors had jumped off the ship, dubbed the MV Lady Mary Joy 3, at the time of the fire - and were quickly rescued by the Philippines coastguard, navy, and local fishermen

The 61-year-old Indian man, whose name hasn't yet been shared, started experiencing flu-like symptoms and was unable to swallow for three months - which was later found to have been caused by a deadly fungus

Health officials have warned parents to vaccinate their children after two kids returning from a trip abroad contracted measles in New South Wales and South Australia

'Fun-loving' dad-of-two Craig Bott, 38, who grew up in Rotherham and had a 16-year-old daughter and six-year-old son, was visiting Australia to assess whether he wanted to relocate there permanently

Dr Katherine Koonce, the 60-year-old principal, was found lying dead inside a corridor after Audrey Hale, 28, was gunned down by police following the fatal shooting which killed six in Nashville, US

David Crouch, 79, lashed out at the former pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos as the convicted murderer appealed his 27-year sentence - claiming the original judge didn't take mitigating circumstances into account

Little Masha Moskalyova was isolated in a grim orphanage while the criminal case against her father was being conducted - which has now seen him sentenced to two years in a Russian penal colony

Vladimir Putin's soldiers continue to launch artillery around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - which is the largest facility of its kind in Europe - and could infect the entire continent with radiation in the event of a disaster

The terrified sailors on board the Danish-owned Monjasa Reformer ship, which was transiting through the dreaded Gulf of Guinea, rushed into a safe room to hide from the pirates

Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa confirmed that two women had been stabbed to death at the Ismaili Muslim centre - a central facility for the city's Islamic community - in the capital of Lisbon

Audrey Elizabeth Hale blasted into the Covenant School in Tennessee, USA, armed with three guns and shot dead six people, including three nine-year-old kids

Thabo Bester, who targeted his victims by finding them on Facebook, was found "dead" last May after a burned body was left in his cell - but he was later spotted in shops and restaurants in an upmarket part of Cape Town

The strike by the Histadrut umbrella group, which represents nearly 800,000 workers in health, transit and banking, among many other fields, could paralyse large parts of Israel's economy

The disembodied foot was found washed up on the popular Petone Beach in Wellington, New Zealand - before police launched an unsuccessful search for the rest of the remains

A dad heard growling before seeing his dog biting into his two-year-old girl's face at around 1.30pm local time (2.30am GMT) in Osborne, Port Adelaide, Australia - and immediately surrendered the hound later that day

The death of Maria Pia Giambona, 34, last night at an intensive care unit in the Sant'Antonion Abate Hospital in Trapani, Sicily, brought the grim death tally up to seven after a horror collision on a "dangerous road" in Sicily, Italy

Two balaclava-clad women guarding cartel burglars as they thieved motorbikes and hauled them on the back of a getaway truck in Zacatecas, Mexico, show a new emerging crime phenomenon

Michael James, a SeaWorld helicopter pilot in the aircraft less severely affected in the crash, said he saw five passengers boarding the second helicopter in Australia's Gold Coast

Goalie Bruno Fernandes ordered a gang to abduct actress and model Eliza Samudio, 25, who was later strangled to death before her body was butchered and fed to a pack of ravenous hounds in Brazil

The 42-year-old man, from Indonesia's East Java province, was having sex when he suffered a near-fatal brain aneurysm, which caused him to collapse on his wife and vomit on the floor

Toddler Kittinan Kimkliang, 3, was left on the back seat of his mother's black Toyota truck for two hours in front of the family's restaurant in Buriram pronvince, Thailand - where temperatures were reaching scorching tropical highs

Several injuries have been reported after a man said to be suffering from mental health issues rammed into several pedestrians at the Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany, according to local police

A mystery donor gave Hrystina Sekulova, from Dupnitsa on the outskirts of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, a second chance after offering to fund gastric surgery in Turkey - which could have saved her life

A dad-of-two in his forties is thought to have died after getting trapped in the spa of the five-star Jaal Riad Resort in Marrakech, Morocco at around 4 Wednesday, according to local emergency responders

State media images showed the North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un with a mysterious white stain on the arm of his coat, sparking fears his unlucky staff could be punished for failing to protect his dignity