America

    At least two efforts to push protesters back from the main intersection in the north of the city where the majority of the unrest occurred. The violence came after an unnamed 23-year-old man was shot dead while trying to flee from police at a traffic stop. Police said the man – who had a criminal record – had a stolen handgun but it was not clear whether he was brandishing it when he was shot. Neither his race nor that of the officer who fired the fatal shot have been identified. Mr Barrett told a news conference that the shooting was being investigated and the officer was wearing a body camera. The unnamed 24-year-old officer has been put on administrative duty. He has been at the Milwaukee police department for six years. Milwaukee has become the latest US city to be hit...

    Tens of thousands have shared an online letter calling for Britain – which lost America in the Revolutionary War of 1765 – to step in and save the nation if Trump and the Republicans win the election on November 8. Many historians have argued that the former British Colony was never formally rescinded at the end of the war in 1783 and that George Washington and Benjamin Franklin merely signed a document removing the United States as a liability and obligation of King George. Now they want to act on that anomaly and, in a play on Donald Trump’s repeated incantation to 'Make America Great Again', a growing number of US citizens are making a call to 'Make America Great Britain Again'.

    Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan took to Twitter Friday to express his annoyance at being detained by US airport immigration authorities for the third time, saying the experience really, really sucks. The last time Khan, 50, was detained by immigration officials in New York in 2012, it sparked uproar among his Indian fans who accused the US of racial profiling, and led Washington to apologise. I fully understand & respect security with the way the world is, but to be detained at US immigration every damn time really really sucks," Khan tweeted after he was pulled aside at Los Angeles airport. The brighter side is while waiting caught some really nice Pokemons. As news of Khan's detention broke on Indian television channels, US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswa...

    Hillary Clinton on Wednesday sternly warned her Republican presidential rival Donald Trump about his casual inciting of violence, saying his startling remarks suggesting gun rights supporters could act against her crossed the line. It was the Democratic nominee's most forceful denunciation after Trump caused a firestorm by suggesting to supporters in North Carolina on Tuesday that Second Amendment people- those who support gun rights could take action to stop Clinton from appointing US Supreme Court justices as president. Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments by Donald Trump that crossed the line, Clinton told a rally in Des Moines, Iowa. Words matter, my friends. And if you are running to be president, or you are president of the United State...

    Fifty former national security officials whose careers span more than four decades released a letter today critical of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, stating that they would not vote for the real estate mogul in November. The statement — signed by a former director of the CIA and National Security Agency, ex-secretaries of homeland security and former top aides and advisers for the White House, State Department and Department of Justice, among others — is the latest in a series of public rebukes of Trump’s capacity to guide the nation’s defense and foreign policy by former government leaders. “Donald Trump is not qualified to be president and commander-in-chief,” reads the letter. “Indeed, we are convinced that he would be a dangerous president and would put...

    Chen Guanming is the 60-year-old man from China who loves the Olympics so much that he rode a rickshaw all the way to Rio just so he could attend the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.Dubbed as the Chinese “Olympics Man,” Chen has also attended both the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics. His arrival in Rio on July 30th marked his third Olympic experience, reported Xinhua (via Shanghaiist). Fulfilling an obsession he developed in 2001 when it was first announced that Beijing will be hosting the 2008 Olympics, Chen first made an incredible 800 km journey from his home in Tong Shan district to reach the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing via his ageing tricycle in 2008.Two years later in May 2010, Chen embarked on an epic two-year rickshaw journey from Tong Shan t...

    The 2016 Olympic Summer Games got underway Friday night in Rio de Janeiro in a festive opening ceremony filled with the traditions of the host country, a message of environmentalism and a call for unity. The Olympic torch ended its 95-day worldwide journey tonight in front of an estimated crowd of 70,000 at Maracana Stadium, with marathoner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima lighting a small cauldron. The festivities got off to somewhat of a rocky start with protesters confronting police in the area, but the show featured pageantry from the host country and around the globe. The ceremony also included the first refugee team in history, which organizers called a "message of hope." The opening ceremony featured three key themes: reinvent, rejoice and replant. The event opened with s...

    Donald Trump has attacked Japan, one of America's closest allies, stating that if the US is attacked, all Japan would do is "sit home and watch Sony television". He expressed his frustration that the US is bound by treaty to defend the Asian nation but that if the United States is attacked, the Japanese cannot help because of Article 9, which constitutionally forbids it to send armed forces overseas. He said that it "could be necessary" for the US to walk away from the treaty - or at least threaten to do so. At a campaign event in Iowa, Mr Trump also repeated his criticism of countries that do not pull their weight in terms of financial contributions to Nato. "You know we have a treaty with Japan, where if Japan is attacked, we have to use the full force and might of the U...

    A Muslim couple Faisal and Nazia Ali, who were kicked off a Delta Airlines flight from Paris to Cincinnati on July 26. They were returning from a week-long trip celebrating their 10th anniversary in London and Paris. Nazia Ali had removed her sneakers, finished sending a text message to her parents and was putting on headphones and settling into her seat for the nine-hour flight from Paris to Cincinnati when a Delta Air Lines crew member approached her and her husband, Faisal. They were excited to come home July 26 to see their three young sons following a 10th-anniversary trip to London and Paris, "the city of romance and love," he said. What happened next would overshadow the good times they'd enjoyed: A flight crew member had complained to the pilot that she was uncomfo...

    Unlike most teens, the First Daughter comes to work at Nancy’s seafood restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard accompanied by a half-dozen Secret Service agents. The guards hang out until she’s done with a four-hour shift that includes bussing tables, doing prep work and manning the takeout window. “We were wondering why there were six people helping this girl,” a waiter at the restaurant in Oak Bluffs told the Boston Herald, “but then we found out who it was.” Adding a layer of confusion: Sasha, who’s grown up in the White House for the past eight years, is going by her full name Natasha (yes, that’s her real name) while on the job. The 350-seat restaurant is a go-to spot for the Obamas during their annual getaway to the Vineyard. The Obamas are reportedly friends with the owner....