A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after shots were fired through the window of a house in County Down on Saturday.
Police said a woman in her 60s was struck on her head and back with shotgun pellets after they were fired through the window in Brae Grove, Ballygowan, just after 23:00 BST.
The man has also been arrested for possession of a firearm and criminal damage.
He remains in custody.
Dominique Antonio Richard Harris and Jarreth Plunkett, both 15, are accused of murdering 14-year-old Bobby Maher during fatal attack
On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain.Sherpa said that bringing one body down from close to Lhotse's 8,516 metre peak -- the world's fourth-highest mountain -- had been among the hardest challenges so far.
Indonesian immigration authorities have detained 103 Taiwanese people after a raid at a villa on the resort island of Bali, officials said Friday. Godam said Indonesian authorities cannot charged them with conducting cybercrime.
Hu Youping, a bus attendant, tried to restrain an assailant at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.
Japanese embassy in China lowers its flag to half mast to honour victim Hu Youping’s death
Every spring, when warm rays of sunshine herald the start of South Korea’s baking summer, fountains across Seoul’s central Gwanghwamun plaza suddenly burst into life, sending cooling jets of water into the air.
The victims were duct taped by a group of five or six unidentified suspects
NEW YORK — A migrant accused of shooting and wounding two NYPD cops in Queens told authorities firing at police was “common practice” back home in Venezuela — although he claimed he didn’t mean to open fire, prosecutors said Wednesday. Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, who prosecutors say shot the officers after being caught zipping the wrong way down a one-way Queens street on a scooter back on June ...
The parents of two eight-year-old girls who died said ‘justice had never been done’ and the ruling was disappointing
Japanese prosecutors have charged a US Air Force member with allegedly kidnapping and raping an underage girl just before Christmas last year, Okinawa police confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.
Assange will take a dip in the sea, get some proper rest and try much-missed food as “a free man,” his wife has revealed, a day after the Australian landed home.
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The case is likely to stoke the long-standing local opposition to US military presence.
Texas’ parole board on Monday denied clemency for death row inmate Ramiro Gonzales, who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for a 2001 murder, despite the fact a key expert witness no longer stands by his testimony at trial.
When he leaves the army barracks to return to his ultra-orthodox Kiryat Menchem neighbourhood in west Jerusalem, Jacov Barchaim immediately swaps his khaki uniform for a traditional black suit to avoid causing offence.
Sometimes saying "my bad" doesn't cut it.
A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it to the United States. Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced Hernández to 45 years in a U.S. prison and fined him $8 million, saying that the penalty should serve as a warning to “well educated, well dressed” individuals who gain power and think their status insulates them from justice when they do wrong. “I am innocent," Hernández said through an interpreter at his sentencing.
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.Jeffrey Dumba's trial on sex-related charges continued Wednesday in Regina with testimony from the teen who said she exchanged sexually explicit photos and videos with the high school teacher.She described in court how their messaging on Snapchat, then text messages, began in 2021 and became more intimate over two months.Dumba, 52, faces charges including inviting a minor to touch herself sexually, distributing sexually explicit material to a mino
Rojem maintained his innocence up until his execution on Thursday morning
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is "marvelling at the horizon" as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London high-security prison, his wife said Thursday.He's just marvelling at the horizon," Stella Assange told Australia's public broadcaster ABC. When told of his release, the couple's two children were "jumping on the sofa and just ecstatic, and they want to show Julian the seals," she said.
