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WHO: Transgenderism no longer a mental illness
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Transgender people, who identify as the opposite gender to the one they were born with, should no longer be considered mentally ill, according to a new UN categorisation. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a...
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Trump defends separating immigrant families
BBC:- US President Donald Trump has defended his policy of splitting up families entering the US illegally, defying a growing chorus of condemnation. Speaking at a business convention, Mr Trump said children had to be taken away if their...
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US quits 'biased' UN human rights council
BBC:- The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The body is "hypocritical and self-serving" and "makes a mockery of human rights", said Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN. Ms Haley last year accused the council of...
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Indonesia man crushed to death by mother's falling coffin
N.Y Daily News:- An Indonesian man was killed after his mother’s ornate coffin fell 10 feet from a funeral tower and crushed him during the service on the island of Sulawesi. Samen Kondorura was serving as a pallbearer when the bamboo ladder...
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Man who killed schoolboy with one punch spared jail
Sky News:- A club promoter has avoided jail after been found guilty of first degree manslaughter for killing a schoolboy with a single punch in Crete. Harrow pupil Archie Lloyd, 18, was celebrating the end of his A-level exams with friends...
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Three dead and three wounded in Sweden shooting
Sky News:- Three people have died and three are injured in a shooting in the Swedish city of Malmo. Two of the men, aged 18 and 29, died overnight after being shot as they left an internet cafe. Another man, in his 30s, has also died,...
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Controversial rapper shot dead in Florida
BBC:- US rapper XXXTentacion, who quickly rose to fame with two consecutive hit albums, has been killed aged 20. He was leaving a motorcycle dealership in south Florida on Monday when an armed suspect shot him. Police in Broward County said...
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Compulsive video game playing now a mental health problem
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition, in a move that some critics warn may risk stigmatizing its young players. In its latest revision to an...
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