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Forensic artist Lois Gibson says helping other victims and witnesses seek justice has been therapeutic. Photo: Capehart Photography 2024 Lois Gibson is the holder of the 2017 Guinness World Record for most positive identifications by a forensic artist. More than 1300 perpetrators correctly identified more than 1000 convictions, 750 criminals put behind bars. She's been helping the Houston Police Department in the United States catch criminals for nearly 40 years. But there's a harrowing reason why. When she was a 21-year-old model and dancer in LA, she was raped, tortured and left for dead by a serial rapist and murderer. Seeing her attacker get arrested for another crime, fight with the officers and beaten into submission was like a "miracle". "After that, I could work crime, because I...

By Luc Cohen, Reuters Trump wants dismissal after Supreme Court immunity ruling Prosecutors say hush money case involved personal acts Trump's scheduled 26 November sentencing date also in question A New York judge is set to decide this week whether president-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star should be overturned in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's July ruling on presidential immunity. Justice Juan Merchan has said he will make his decision by Tuesday (local time). It is the first of two pivotal choices that the judge must make after Trump's 5 November election victory. Merchan also must decide whether to go ahead with sentencing Trump on 26 November as currently scheduled. Legal experts have said sentencing now is unlikely...

By Anthony Deutsch, Reuters Police officers drive people away from Dam Square during a pro-Palestinian protest. Photo: AFP / Robin van Lonkhuijsen Riot police in Amsterdam began breaking up a pro-Palestinian protest on Sunday (Monday morning NZT) after a court upheld a ban on demonstrations following clashes this week involving Israeli soccer fans. Hundreds of demonstrators defied the prohibition to gather in the Dutch capital's Dam square, chanting demands for an end to violence in Gaza and "Free Palestine". But after a local court ratified the city authorities' ban, police moved in, instructing protesters to leave. Several people were dragged away by police, a Reuters journalist saw. The three-day ban was imposed from Friday after attacks on Israeli soccer supporters following a so...

Catherine, Princess of Wales and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh view the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph on Sunday in London. Photo: Getty Images / Chris Jackson Britain's Princess Kate attended the Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London, her second public appearance in two days, as she gradually returns to public duties after her treatment for cancer. She watched from the balcony of a government building as members of the royal family, including King Charles, and politicians laid wreaths at the Cenotaph war memorial in central London. The Princess of Wales was wearing a black hat and jacket adorned with red poppies, which are worn by Britons as a symbol of respect for those who have lost their lives in conflict. On Saturday, she appeared at the Festival of Remembrance at L...

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN US President-elect Donald Trump. Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / Getty Images via AFP Analysis - It may be horrific and redefine the world order. Or it may be underwhelmingly bluster over substance. But US President-elect Donald Trump's second term will certainly be disruptive. And even the most severe American isolationism - the greatest amount of doing little - will likely herald significant change. We really know staggeringly little about Trump's foreign policy. He said he likes it that way. We know he's against wars that drag in America. He seems fond of dictators, or at least strongmen. He likes what he sees as good deals and destroys what he thinks of as bad ones. He dislikes American allies that he thinks take advantage. He doesn't believe in global warming....

By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly, Reuters Damage to the Moscow International Business Centre following an earlier drone attack in July 2023. Photo: ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP Russia shoots down 32 drones flying to Moscow Three Moscow airports divert flights Biggest drone strike on the capital to date Multiple drone attacks on other Russian regions Ukraine has attacked Moscow with at least 32 drones, the biggest drone strike on the Russian capital since the start of the war in 2022, forcing flights to be diverted from three of the city's major airports and injuring at least one person. Russian air defences shot down 32 drones flying towards Moscow over the Ramenskoye and Kolomensky districts of the Moscow region, as well as in Domodedovo city, home to one of the city's biggest ...

By Barbie Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome's Trevi Fountain is seen during the opening of the temporary public walkway. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images/CNN Rome's baroque Trevi Fountain opened Saturday morning (local time) with selfie-takers lining a newly installed metal walkway, as workers start the painstaking process of carefully cleaning the 18th-century masterpiece. The walkway, made of building scaffolding and covered with a vinyl rug, can hold 130 people at a time, giving tourists a chance to get a close look at the statue of Oceanus and his horse-drawn chariot. But a warning to those visiting the attraction because tossing a coin into the fountain, a long-standing tradition, is now banned. In fact, anyone who does so will face a €50 (NZ$90) fine. Coins are only ...

By Jason Lange, Reuters The US Capitol in Washington, DC, United States. Photo: AFP/Aashish Kiphayet Republicans appear close to clinching control of the US House of Representatives, a critical element for President-elect Donald Trump to advance his agenda when he returns to the White House in January. With votes still being counted from the 5 November general election, Republicans had won 212 seats in the 435-member House, according to Edison Research, which projected on Friday night that Republican Jeff Hurd had enough votes to keep Republican control of Colorado's 3rd congressional district. Republicans need to win six more seats to keep control of the House and they already have enough victories to wrest control of the US Senate from Democrats, though Edison Research projected la...

British chef Jamie Oliver in London on 1 May, 2018. Photo: AFP / Ben Stansall British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has announced he will no longer sell his children's book, after coming under fire for what Indigenous critics called "erasure, trivialisation and stereotyping". Oliver's book, Billy and the Epic Escape, tells a fictional account of a group of friends on a summer adventure when an Indigenous girl living in foster care is abducted. The story sparked outrage among Indigenous authors and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation called for the book to be withdrawn, The Guardian reported on Saturday. Billy and the Great Escape by Jamie Oliver. Photo: Supplied / Penguin Random House The corporation told The Guardian the book was "disrespectful"...

By Graham Hurley, CNN Alex Davis, a diver in Barbados, uncovered a graduation ring owned by Morgan Perigo who lost the ring on a trip with his kids in 1977. Photo: Alex Davis / McMaster University A day before Morgan Perigo's 83rd birthday last month, an unexpected package showed up on his doorstep. Inside was the 1965 McMaster University graduation ring he lost in 1977. The package was from Alex Davis, a professional free diver and spear fisherman who runs a tourism business in Barbados. During a slow week for the tourism trade, Davis checked webcams showing a spot he was interested in after it had been churned by Hurricane Beryl earlier in the year. "So, areas where it was like a beautiful sandy beach, suddenly you can see all these rocks exposed ... With that sort of in mind, I wa...