Shannen Headley BBC News, West Midlands BBC A US woman who was hired as a killer and tried to shoot a man in the UK at point-blank range has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Would-be assassin Aimee Betro, from West Allis in Wisconsin, flew into the country as part of a plot to…

Bangor Rugby Club helped Phil Thompson summit a Welsh peak – SWNS This is the touching moment a rugby team carried a wheelchair-bound dad to the summit of Snowdon—helping to fulfill his lifelong dream. Members of Bangor Rugby Club helped Phil Thompson to the Welsh mountain’s 3650-foot peak earlier this month. The 66-year-old has always…

Speaking about the impact the abuse had on her, Carter said: “It makes you feel really small. It makes you feel like you’re not important, that you’re not valuable. “It makes you second guess everything that you do – it’s not a nice place to be. It doesn’t make me feel confident going back on…

Recology Recycling Center, where ‘junk’ is being dropped off, and Artists-in-Residence may scavenge Inside San Francisco’s 47-acre recycling and recovery center at the dump, where small businesses and residents can bring truckloads of cast-offs, artists have special access to a churning, ever-changing landscape where detritus from all over the city is sorted and processed. In…

Three children have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent Police has said. Officers were called to Warden Bay Road shortly after 19:00 BST on Sunday, following reports of an altercation and a man being assaulted, the force said. The man had…

Happy 60th Birthday to Viola Davis, the award-winning actress who rose out of abject poverty in South Carolina to attend Juilliard. Her magnificent 2011 performance in The Help, playing a maid in the 1960s, earned her an Oscar nomination. After she won an Academy Award (for Fences), an Emmy, and a Tony Award (twice), she…

Justin Rose beat JJ Spaun in a nail-biting play-off to win the St Jude Championship, his first PGA Tour title in more than two years. The 45-year-old Englishman had lost on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off with Rory McIlroy at this year’s Masters. But this time the world number 20 held his nerve…

Screams were coming from the woods, but the three lifeguards who had just started their shift at the Ohio pool didn’t hesitate. They sprinted away from the Pataskala Municipal Park and raced toward the screams, through the trees to the rushing river that flowed beyond. Eighteen-year-old lifeguard Kaden Ross ran the 150 yards to the…

Watch: The BBC’s Emir Nader reports from protests against PM Netanyahu’s plans for Gaza Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across Israel to oppose the government’s plan to expand its military operation in Gaza. On Friday, Israel’s security cabinet approved five principles to end the war that included ‘taking security control’ over the…

Today is the approximate date for the fall of Nineveh, capital of the Ancient Assyrian Empire, one of the most brutal and despotic of all Near-Eastern states. Though this history column never suggests the conquering of a people or the destruction of a city as a good thing, the fall of Nineveh essentially liberated a…