A Florida man will go on trial July 18th in Minnesota on human smuggling charges after four migrants from India froze to death during a blizzard while trying to walk from Manitoba into the US. Steve Shand is charged with bringing two people into the US illegally and illegally transporting them once in the country. Four bodies were discovered near Emerson, five Indian nationals were found on foot on the Minnesota side of the border and two others were discovered nearby riding in Shand's van. Shand was not charged in the deaths of the migrants.

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith's hair loss is at the center of the most talked-about moment at Sunday's Oscars ceremony. Smith disclosed four years ago that she has alopecia and it's the reason she has shaved her head or worn turbans in public. The autoimmune disease attacks hair follicles. It's unclear if comedian Chris Rock knew about it when he joked about her baldness during the ceremony. But his comment prompted a smack and profane admonishment from Smith's husband, actor Will Smith. The National Institutes of Health says alopecia affects all racial groups, men and women equally. There is no

UNICEF reports more than 4.3-million Ukrainian children have been displaced since Russia launched its invasion on February 24th.That is half of all children in the country.UNICEF says more than 1.8-million children have crossed into neighbouring countries as refugees, 2.5-million are displaced insideUkraine, 78 have died and 105 have been injured.

Bahrain women’s cricket team created a new record in T-20 cricket. Team scored a mammoth total of 318/1 in a T20I match against Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The match was played at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket. It was the seventh match of the GCC Women’s T20I Championship 2022 where the women in red jersey's eclipsed Uganda’s score of 314/2 to climb on top of the record books.Bahrain captain Deepika Rasangika, who scored an unbeaten 161 runs off 66 balls, also got her name in history books after becoming the first batter to score more than 150 runs in a women’s T20I. Chasing a

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have decided against reopening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to appease their hard-line base, at the expense of further alienating the international community. The surprise decision is bound to disrupt Taliban efforts to win recognition from potential donors abroad at a time when Afghanistan is mired in a worsening humanitarian crisis. U.S. Special Representative Thomas West tweeted his ``shock and deep disappointment'' about the decision, calling it ``a betrayal of public commitments to the Afghan people and the internat

A senior NATO military official is estimating as many as 15-thousand Russian soldiers have died in fighting in Ukraine.Separately, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has announced the alliance is deploying new multinational battlegroups to Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.Today marks four full weeks of fighting, with Russia bogged down in a grinding military campaign and its economy crippled by Western sanctions.U-S President Joe Biden, who's on his way to Brussels for tomorrow's meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other NATO leaders, warns there is a ``real threat`` Russia c

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board has crashed in southern China in the country's worst air disaster in nearly a decade. The Civil Aviation Administration of China says the crash occurred Monday near the city of Wuzhou in Teng county. China Eastern's flight No. 5735 had been traveling at around 30,000 feet when suddenly, just after 2:20 p.m., the plane entered a deep dive. The data suggests the plane crashed within a minute and a half of whatever went wrong. Chicago-based Boeing Co. said it was aware of the initial reports of the crash and was ``working to gather more inf

China Eastern Airlines has grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-800 jets after China's worst air disaster in nearly a decade.A flight with 132 people aboard plunged into a forested area in southern China, causing a fire big enough to be seen on NASA satellite images.Data from flight-tracking website FlightRadar24-dot-com shows the plane went into a deep dive from its cruising altitude of about 30-thousand feet and crashed about 90-seconds later.

A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman says a 13 year old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van in West Texas in a fiery collision that killed nine people. NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said Thursday the truck's left front tire, which was a spare tire, also blew out before impact. One must be 14 in Texas to start taking classroom courses for a learner's license and 15 to receive that provisional license to drive with an instructor or licensed adult in the vehicle. The pickup crossed into the opposite lane on a darkened, two-lane highway before colliding head-on with a