Seth Todd was wearing an inflatable frog costume when a federal officer unleashed a torrent of chemical spray directly into the costume's air vent... It's now become a symbol.
World
5:30pm
The US president said he was terminating negotiations because of a television ad opposing US tariffs he called "egregious behaviour" aimed at influencing US court decisions.
4:47pm
Minutes before she was brutally executed, Thi Kim Tran's alleged killers fired off one last image of her alive to their intended target – her husband.
Crime and Justice
4:02pm
Hundreds of police have been involved in the manhunt for more than two months, with over 400 officers deployed in the hours and days after the killings in August.
2:36pm
The US and the European Union are hitting Russia with another round of sanctions, aiming to cut into oil and gas export earnings that fund Moscow's war against Ukraine.
12:46pm
Hard-liners narrowly passed a preliminary vote in support of annexing parts of the West Bank — an apparent attempt to embarrass PM Benjamin Netanyahu while Vance was in the country.
10:34am
1:30
Michael Smuss was part of a Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he fought back against the Nazis during the uprising.
9:20am
The country's president condemned the breach as a blatant infraction on the territorial integrity of his European Union and NATO-member country.
8:18am
"My message to the defendants who've been rounded up today is this: Your winning streak has ended," said Joseph Nocella, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
7:43am
King Charles III and Queen Camilla prayed Thursday with Pope Leo XIV in an historic visit to the Vatican to forge closer relations between the Church of England and the Catholic Church.
7:34am
Anna Hicks of Bonhams international auction house said the sales "offer an intimate portrait of Hackman’s private world".
Thursday 6:00pm
A group of six men and a woman stole from 18 different establishments in Spain in August and September.
Thursday 5:00pm
Chess's governing body considers disciplinary action against Vladimir Kramnik who levelled unproven cheating allegations at Daniel Naroditsky in the year leading up his death.
Thursday 4:31pm
Prosecutors said they deemed some case material unimportant, while Baldwin’s lawyers say they "buried" the evidence in a separate case file.
Thursday 4:30pm
Israel has denied it has violated international law, saying the court's proceedings are biased, and the country didn't attend hearings in April.
Thursday 1:09pm
Elon Musk was predicting 20% to 30% sales growth for 2025 at this time last year – but it hasn't turned out that way.
Business
Thursday 12:54pm
Laurence des Cars said that the museum’s alarms had worked properly, but that it currently doesn't have full video surveillance of the perimeter outside the museum
Thursday 11:20am
1:31
Officials in Pyongyang orchestrated the clandestine work to finance research and development of nuclear arms, the authors of the 138-page report found.
Thursday 11:15am
The attack - which killed two - was a departure from the seven previous US strikes that had targeted vessels in the Caribbean Sea.
Thursday 9:48am
Trump said that his plan for a swift meeting with Putin was on hold because he didn’t want it to be a "waste of time".
Thursday 9:14am
Thomas Mascia was given five years of probation and ordered to undergo mental health treatment and pay nearly US$290,000 (NZ$505,000) in restitution.
Thursday 8:46am
Concern as Google, OpenAI and Meta Platforms race to build a form of artificial intelligence designed to surpass humans at many tasks.
Wed, Oct 22
Arthur Haines, 13, died 11 weeks after a sleepover in 1998 where the house was deliberately set on fire.
Daniel Naroditsky, a 29-year-old standard-bearer in the world of competitive speed chess that flourished in the pandemic, died over the weekend.
Police say the distraught mother climbed on top of the caravan and retrieved her kids – aged seven, five and two – by pulling them out through a skylight.
