El Paso mass shooting to be treated as 'domestic terrorism'
The shooting that killed 20 people at shopping mall in Texas will be treated as a case of domestic terrorism.
Prosecutors in El Paso are considering hate crime charges against suspected gunman Patrick Crusius along with counts of capital murder that could carry the death penalty after Saturday’s atrocity.
Investigators are focussing on whether the El Paso attack was a hate crime after the emergence of a racist, anti-immigrant screed that was posted online shortly beforehand.
The border city has figured prominently in the immigration debate and is home to 680,000 people, most of them Latino.
The attack on Saturday was followed less than a day later by another shooting that claimed nine lives in Dayton, Ohio. That gunman was killed by police.
Fears British schoolgirl missing in Malaysia was abducted
The disappearance of a 15-year-old London schoolgirl in Malaysia is now being treated as both an abduction and a missing person case by police, a charity has said.
Nora Quoirin, who has special needs, went missing yesterday while on a holiday with her family at a resort in a nature reserve 39 miles south of the capital Kuala Lumpur.
Nora’s aunt Aisling Agnew described the teenager as especially vulnerable and said she would never leave her family voluntarily.
The Lucie Blackman Trust is supporting the family and said police were treating the case as both a missing person and an abduction.
Heathrow travellers still face disruption despite strike suspension
Travellers are being warned they may still face disruption today despite the last-minute suspension of a strike at Heathrow.
Members of the Unite union were due to walk out from one minute past midnight for 48 hours over a pay dispute.
The strike was suspended yesterday evening to allow for more talks but 177 flights on Monday and Tuesday had already been cancelled by airport authorities.
The scale of disruption would have been worse if the strike had gone ahead but passengers are being urged to check with their airline for the latest news on flights.
Residents 'risking their lives and emergency services' by staying in homes threatened by dam collapse
Emergency work to prevent a damaged dam from bursting will continue today, as residents refusing to evacuate their homes were criticised for putting lives at risk.
A senior police officer warned there could be catastrophic consequences if the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir collapses while people remain within the evacuation zone in the Derbyshire town of Whaley Bridge.
Thirty-one people, including a small number who were initially evacuated but have since returned to their homes, remained in 22 properties in the town last night.
Deputy chief constable Rachel Swann told a residents meeting those who have defied orders to leave were putting both their lives and those of emergency services staff at risk.
The Met Office said there was a risk of some showers overnight into Monday, but these would likely amount to just one or two millimetres of rainfall in the area.
Love Island's Amber may move to Ireland to be with Greg
Love Island winner Amber Gill has said she may move to Ireland to be with her boyfriend Greg O'Shea.
The beauty therapist made the revelation on the reunion show last night.
Host Caroline Flack was quizzing the pair about their long distance romance, and Greg looked stunned when Amber said she may move to be with him.
The pair said it had still not sunk in that they had won the ITV2 show.
On this day…
1891: The first American Express travellers' cheque was cashed.
1926: Houdini, famous escapologist and magician, survived for one-and-a-half hours in a bronze coffin in a hotel swimming pool in Los Angeles.
1958: The nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus completed its historic journey under the North Pole.
1962: Marilyn Monroe died alone in her bedroom from "acute barbiturate poisoning". She was 36.
1963: Britain, the United States and the USSR signed a nuclear test ban treaty.
1974: US president Richard Nixon admitted his complicity in the Watergate affair.
1984: Welsh actor Richard Burton died in Geneva, aged 58.
2010: The Copiapo mining accident trapped 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300ft below the ground. The miners a survived for a record 69 days underground before they were finally rescued.
2012: Andy Murray claimed two Olympic medals after a momentous day on Wimbledon's Centre Court.
