A witness to the downing of the Malaysian Airlines passenger plane which killed 298 people in Ukraine has told prosecutors they saw troops firing a Soviet missile system at the aircraft. The startling revelation came during the preliminary hearings at The Hague District Court for the downing of the Malaysian…
A Turkish heart surgeon working in Germany has been booted out of his job after saying homosexuality was a disease. Metin Cakir, who worked as a doctor in Karlsruhe, a city in the south-western German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, at the local Helios Clinic, posted on Twitter saying: "As a doctor,…
This Japanese lawmaker has been expelled from his post after he was found to have broken the country's coronavirus lockdown to visit a red-light district sex parlour. Takashi Takai, 50, handed in a letter of resignation on 14th April after admitting visiting a ‘sex parlour’ in the Kabukicho red-light district…
A French nurse has been fired for volunteering to help at other hospitals as they are crying out for medical professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak. The unnamed nurse reportedly worked at the Hospital Centre Regional University Morvan De Brest in the city of Brest in France’s north-westernmost region of Brittany…
