A teenager has been arrested in connection with a fire at a tower block in Coatbridge that left six people injured.
Six fire engines were called to the incident at the High Coats flats shortly after 13:30 on Monday.
Crews spent several hours extinguishing the flames in the top-floor property.
Police Scotland said a 17-year-old boy was arrested over the blaze, but an investigation is ongoing.
The 38-year-old man is the first Japanese national to receive this punishment in Singapore.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -A Malaysian court dismissed jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak's legal bid to obtain a document that he said would allow him to serve his remaining prison sentence under house arrest. In a judicial review application filed on April 1, Najib said an "addendum order" issued by the former king had accompanied a pardons board's decision in February to halve his 12-year jail sentence for graft in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal. Najib had sought for the court to compel the government to reply to or confirm the existence of the royal order, which he said would entitle him to serve the remainder of his term under house arrest, and to execute the order if it existed.
The 16-year-old schoolboy was travelling by bus to Auckland City when he was attacked by a woman with a metal bar, police say
China has urged the Philippines to find and "severely punish" the killers of a kidnapped Chinese citizen in a case that has led to a diplomatic intervention by Beijing. The Chinese embassy in Manila said it had been informed a few days ago that the person had been kidnapped in the Philippines, and it assisted the family in reporting the case to the Philippine National Police's Anti-Kidnapping Bureau. It also intervened through diplomatic channels to ask for a rescue and that measures be taken to
Jason Kendall, 35, is being held without bond in connection to the murder of Larissa Garcia at a Las Vegas casino
The taekwondo-trained mum wrestles a thief as he tries to steal her bike, but police do not arrive.
In April 2023, Joseph M. Eaton killed his parents and their friends as they prepared to welcome him home from prison
Hu Youping, a school bus attendant in Suzhou, China, died after attempting to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack at a bus stop outside a Japanese school at around 4 p.m. on Monday. The mother and child suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The local government honored Hu as a “Righteous and Courageous Role Model,” and the Japanese embassy in China lowered its flag to half-mast in her memory.
Neil Foden has been jailed for sexually abusing girls - but there were complaints about him in 2019.
China's tech firms issued warnings about anti-Japan posts after a 55-year-old Chinese woman died trying to protect a Japanese mother and her son.
A driver whose car struck pedestrians waiting at a crowded intersection in South Korea's capital, killing nine people, will be investigated on allegations of accidental homicide, police said Tuesday. The car hit several people Monday night in central Seoul, after reportedly going in the wrong direction and colliding with two other cars. The driver told investigators that his car accelerated abruptly and unintentionally, reported South Korean media.
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The sign made reference to a name Rep Jasmine Crockett gave to Majorie Taylor Greene during a heated argument
Raped by her husband on her wedding night aged 17, Divya described her repeated suffering -- an all-too-common account in India, permitted by a terrifying colonial-era legal loophole.India introduced a new penal code on Monday but the exception clause remains -- although it does raise the minimum age that a man can rape his wife to 18.
Christopher Bramah-Calvert told to release his stolen iPhone 13 from his Apple account or his family will be ‘slaughtered’ after he tracked device to Shenzhen in southern China
A 14-year-old boy dressed in military clothing was arrested after police alleged he stabbed a 22-year-old student in the neck Tuesday at the University of Sydney. The student was taken to hospital in a stable condition. The suspect was treated in hospital for cuts and was kept for a mental health assessment, said Mark Walton, acting assistant commissioner for the New South Wales Police.
The incident took place at a Hindu religious event in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state.
Mark Alan Partain was killed by the dog in March. The dog had attacked someone else months before
Japan issued its first new banknotes in two decades Wednesday, yen packed with 3-D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida praised as “historic” the state-of-the-art anti-counterfeit traits of the new 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen bills. “I hope the people will like the new bills, and they will help energize the Japanese economy,” he told reporters at the Bank of Japan.
A woman accused of travelling across the US claiming to be an Irish heiress to con people out of tens of thousands of dollars has been extradited to the UK.
