Around the World

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Moncrieff and the team take a look at the stories making headlines around the world.

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Around the World: Driverless cars to be ticketed in California
May 05, 2026
Around the World: 18 wolves found dead in Italy
Apr 28, 2026
Around the World: Fallout from Peru Election
Apr 21, 2026
Around the World: Germany want the biggest army in Europe
Apr 14, 2026
Around the World: Ministers in Senegal banned from foreign travel
Apr 07, 2026
Around the World: Energy crisis in Thailand
Mar 31, 2026
Around the World: Enforced sterilisation in Peru
Mar 10, 2026
Around the World: 10-year-old in China sues father
Mar 03, 2026
Around the World: Celebrity dies from snake bite in Nigeria
Feb 24, 2026
Around the World: Switzerland to vote on capping population
Feb 17, 2026
Around the World: Tel Aviv football fans banned from Birmingham match
Jan 20, 2026
Around the World: Woman in UK arrested for feeding birds
Jan 13, 2026
Around the World: Rats eat proof of drug trafficking in India
Jan 06, 2026
Around the World: Brussels to ban scooters in 2026
Dec 23, 2025
Around the World: OpenAI sued for encouraging murder
Dec 17, 2025
Around the World: Man swallows necklace in New Zealand theft
Dec 09, 2025
Around the World: Quebec proposes public prayer ban
Dec 02, 2025
Around the World: Comic found it attic sells for millions
Nov 25, 2025
Around the World: Play sand asbestos warning shuts schools
Nov 18, 2025
Around the World: Australia social media ban moves influencers
Nov 11, 2025
Around the World: Russia jails buskers for lyrics
Nov 04, 2025
Around the World: Greece unhappy with British Museum artifacts
Oct 28, 2025
Around the World: State of Emergency in Peru
Oct 21, 2025
Around the World: Denmark to boost Arctic Defence
Oct 14, 2025
Around the World: South Korea breaks taboo on tattoos
Sep 30, 2025
Around the World: Woman barred from feeding birds in Rome
Sep 23, 2025
Around the World: Nepal gets first female PM after deadly unrest
Sep 16, 2025
Around the World: Jamaican Prime Minister wins rare third term
Sep 09, 2025
Around the World: SUVs incredibly popular in the UK
Sep 02, 2025
Around the World: Over 300 Indonesians poisoned after free school dinner
Aug 19, 2025
Around the World: Japan's population drops by 1 million in a year
Aug 12, 2025
Around the World: Kenya propose alcohol bans
Aug 05, 2025
Around the World: Utility pole kills 4 horses in Puerto Rico
Jul 29, 2025
Around the World: Woman arrested for blackmailing monks
Jul 22, 2025
Around the World: Women found alive after 11 days in Australian Outback
Jul 15, 2025
Around the World: Human trafficking among Champagne workers in France
Jun 24, 2025
Around the World: Attempted assassination on Colombian President
Jun 17, 2025
Around the World: Botswana cut back diamond production
Jun 10, 2025
Around the World: Papua New Guinea bans e-cigarettes
Jun 03, 2025
Around the World: England to roll out 1st gonorrhoea vaccine
May 27, 2025
Around the World: Arizona man gives posthumous AI victim statement
May 20, 2025
Around the World: Scorpions taking over Brazilian cities
May 13, 2025
Around the World: Brazil's Social Security Minister resigns after scam
May 06, 2025
Around the World: Spain cancels €6m arms deal with Israel
Apr 29, 2025
Around the World: Italy opens first ‘sex room’ for prisoners
Apr 22, 2025
Around the World: Dutch Parliament to ban buying and selling of fireworks
Apr 15, 2025
Around the World: Influencer trying to meet uncontacted tribe arrested
Apr 08, 2025
Around the World: Fears of civil war in South Sudan
Apr 01, 2025
Around the World: First death reported during 2034 World Cup construction
Mar 25, 2025
Around the World: US to enact stricter immigration with Canada
Mar 18, 2025
Around the World: Thai students can now choose hairstyles
Mar 11, 2025
Around the World: Heatwave closes schools in South Sudan
Feb 25, 2025
Around the World: Wild Elephants Swipe Crops in Thailand
Feb 18, 2025
Around the World: New Australian amendment fights Nazism
Feb 11, 2025
Around the World: Swedish police plan to wiretap children
Feb 04, 2025
Around the World: French couple’s divorce reaches EU Human Rights Court
Jan 28, 2025
Around the World: Drunk pilot arrested before takeoff
Jan 21, 2025
Around the World: Peruvian President gets a nose job
Jan 14, 2025
Around the World: Zambian detective releases 13 suspects for New Year’s
Jan 07, 2025
Around the World: 7 convicted for rioting in Hong Kong
Dec 17, 2024
Around the World: Electric cars hurting untouched Indonesian island
Dec 03, 2024
Around the World: Accusations of book plagiarism in Algeria
Nov 26, 2024
Around the World: South African gold mines being protected by police
Nov 19, 2024
Around the World: Russian doctor in trouble for anti-war comments
Nov 12, 2024
Around the World: Brazil and Venezuela aren’t getting along
Nov 05, 2024
Around the World: Elephant tramples man to death in India
Oct 29, 2024
Around the World: Australia putting 10-year-olds in prison
Oct 22, 2024
Around the World: Mexican army protecting lime growers
Oct 15, 2024
Around the World: Sports betting crackdown in Nigeria
Oct 08, 2024
Around the World: Man acquitted of murder after 46 years
Oct 02, 2024
Around the World: Sheriff shoots judge in Kentucky
Sep 24, 2024
Around the World: Mexico’s Judicial Reform Bill
Sep 17, 2024
Around the World: Mayor in Italy bans cricket?
Sep 13, 2024
Around the World: Japan’s Ageing Population Problem
Sep 03, 2024
Around the World: Dutch Royal Family have DJs arrested
Aug 27, 2024
Around the World: Pineapple sweets contained meth
Aug 20, 2024
Around the World: South African Beauty Pageant Controversy
Aug 14, 2024
Around the World: Mali cuts ties with Ukraine
Aug 06, 2024
Around the World: Hong Kong schools and the national anthem
Jul 02, 2024
Around the World: Boyfriend sued for not giving a lift to the airport
Jun 25, 2024
Around the World: France opens first cheese museum
Jun 18, 2024
Around the World: Too much rubbish in the Himalayas
Jun 11, 2024
Around the World: Nigeria is changing their national anthem
Jun 04, 2024
Around the World: Australia holds X accountable for hate speech
May 28, 2024
Around the World: Riots in New Caledonia
May 21, 2024
Around the World: Malaysia are giving away orangutans
May 14, 2024
Around The World: Cuban airline isn’t allowed to refuel plane
Apr 30, 2024
Around The World: Italy town bans tree climbing
Apr 23, 2024
Around The World: Columbia is running out of water
Apr 16, 2024
Around The World: Russia Begins Closing Prisons
Apr 09, 2024
Around The World: Vietnam's President resigns after a year in office
Mar 26, 2024
Around The World: 15-year-old killed by police in California
Mar 19, 2024
Around The World: South African mother arrested over the disappearance of her child
Mar 12, 2024
Around The World: Coach who tried to force Olympic sprinter to return to Belarus receives ban
Mar 05, 2024
Around The World: African Union bans donkey slaughter
Feb 27, 2024
Around The World: France to revoke birthright citizenship in Mayotte
Feb 20, 2024
Around The World: Zanzibar facing a shortage of alcohol
Feb 13, 2024
Around The World: French Holocaust denier found in Scotland
Feb 06, 2024
Around The World: 9-year-old French boy abandoned for two years
Jan 30, 2024
Around The World: Teens in North Korea sentenced to hard labour for watching K-drama
Jan 23, 2024
Around The World: Finnish artists sign petition for Israel to be banned from Eurovision
Jan 16, 2024
Around The World: Golden Gate Bridge gets suicide net after 87 years
Jan 09, 2024
Around The World: China investigating Taiwanese rock band of lip-syncing
Jan 02, 2024
Around the World: Former Japanese soldiers convicted of sexually assaulting colleague
Dec 19, 2023
Around The World: Denmark passes law to ban religious scriptures being burnt
Dec 12, 2023
Around The World: 70-year-old woman gives birth to twins in Uganda
Dec 05, 2023
Around The World: Geert Wilders's Dutch election win
Nov 28, 2023
Around The World: Finnish PM to close some crossing points on Russian border
Nov 21, 2023
Around The World: AI-operated machinery kills man in South Korea
Nov 14, 2023
Around The World: Bolivia first country to cut ties with Israel
Nov 07, 2023
Around The World: Toddler mauled by a dog in China
Oct 31, 2023
Around The World: Lingerie model arrested in Vietnam
Oct 24, 2023
Around The World: US security company sues AirCanada
Oct 17, 2023
Around The World: German museum employee swapped paintings for forgeries
Oct 03, 2023
Around The World: ‘Cannabis muffins’ given to South African school children
Sep 26, 2023
Around The World: Canadian chef accused of sending out ‘suicide kits’
Sep 19, 2023
Around The World: US influencer accused of child torture
Sep 12, 2023
Around The World: Moroccan tourist shot by Algerian coastguard
Sep 05, 2023
Around The World: Kenyan man fined for revealing friend's alleged HIV status
Aug 29, 2023
Around The World: 10 Burundian handball players disappear in Croatia
Aug 22, 2023
Around The World: Syrian man accused of massacre arrested in Germany
Aug 15, 2023
Around The World: Moroccan man jailed for criticising king
Aug 08, 2023
Around The World: The 1975 banned from performing in Malaysia
Jul 25, 2023
Around The World: Iran's morality police resume patrols
Jul 18, 2023
Around The World: Kenyan factory workers stripped over sanitary towel in bin
Jul 11, 2023
Around The World: New Zealand ex-throuple dispute over property
Jun 27, 2023
Around The World: Namibia to sell 40 crocodiles due to rise in human attacks
Jun 20, 2023
Around The World: Singapore bids farewell to horse racing
Jun 13, 2023
Around the World: Ex-police chief of Rwanda has been arrested in South Africa
May 30, 2023
Around the World: Malawi's court case on dreadlocks
May 16, 2023
Around The World: After School Satan Club must be allowed to meet
May 09, 2023
Around The World: Cuba cancels workers' day parade over fuel crisis
May 02, 2023
Around The World: Mexican Presidential plane sold for $92 million
Apr 25, 2023
Around The World: Chile shortens working week
Apr 18, 2023
Around The World: Spanish actress has baby via surrogate aged 68
Apr 04, 2023
Around The World: Ecuador TV stations receive letter bombs
Mar 28, 2023
Around The World: Kenya's 'one bar per town' plan
Mar 21, 2023
Around The World: Nigerian prostitution boss extradited to Italy
Mar 14, 2023
Around The World: Sperm donor fathers over 60 children in Australia
Mar 07, 2023
Around The World: Robert Mugabe Jr arrested in Zimbabwe
Feb 28, 2023
Around The World: 94 people stripped of citizenship in Nicaragua
Feb 21, 2023
Around The World: Crisis in Ethiopia’s Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Feb 14, 2023
Around The World: Supreme Court in Italy court rules children don't have to visit grandparents
Feb 07, 2023
Around The World: Court order to remove statue of Virgin Mary in French town
Jan 31, 2023
Around The World: Turkey condemns Quran-burning protest in Sweden
Jan 24, 2023
Around The World: Albanian government official smuggling drugs
Jan 17, 2023
Around The World: Attack on a Protestant cemetery in Israel
Jan 10, 2023
Around The World: Welsh language dying out in Argentina
Jan 03, 2023
Around The World: Pregnant Senegalese MP assaulted in parliament
Dec 20, 2022
Around The World: Peru's president ousted
Dec 13, 2022
Around The World: Indonesia bans sex outside marriage
Dec 06, 2022
Around The World: 49 people sentenced to death in Algeria
Nov 29, 2022
Around The World: Footballers shot in Virginia
Nov 22, 2022
Around The World: South Korean police officer found dead at home
Nov 15, 2022
Around The World: Marriages skyrocket in Russia
Nov 08, 2022
Around The World: Baby chimpanzees kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Nov 01, 2022
Around The World: Lumpy skin disease killing cows in India
Oct 25, 2022
Around The World: Jamaica bans music and television that glorifies crime
Oct 18, 2022
Around The World: Poisonous cough bottle in Gambia
Oct 11, 2022
Around The World: Danish Queen strips four grandchildren of royal titles
Oct 04, 2022
Around the World: Polish woman convicted of blasphemy overturns case
Sep 20, 2022
Around The World: Nun killed by extremist group in Mozambique
Sep 13, 2022
Around The World: The Mascho-Piro tribe in Peru
Sep 06, 2022
Around The World: Angolan General Election
Aug 30, 2022
Around The World: Kenya Elections
Aug 23, 2022
Around The World: The global effect of the pandemic
Aug 16, 2022
Around The World: France's inflation relief package
Aug 09, 2022
Around The World: The Tunisian Referendum
Aug 02, 2022
Around The World: The Europol ploy
Jul 19, 2022
Around The World: The Nigerian Church Arrest
Jul 12, 2022
Around The World: The return of Patrice Lumumba's gold tooth!
Jun 21, 2022
Around The World: Europe's largest battery recycling plant!
Jun 14, 2022
Around The World: Banning the Spanish dictionary
Jun 07, 2022
Around The World: 'Bongbong' Marcos poised to win Philippines election
May 10, 2022
Around The World: A Solider and Businessman Arrested in Korea
May 03, 2022
Around The World: 6 Rohingya Killed Fleeing Detention Center in Malaysia
Apr 26, 2022
Around The World: British man jailed in Cyprus for smothering cancer-stricken wife
Apr 19, 2022
Around The World: Yemeni President cedes power
Apr 12, 2022
Around the World: China and Solomon Islands sign a deal
Apr 05, 2022
Around the World: Senegalese army launches military operation against rebels
Mar 22, 2022
Around the World: Protesters shot and killed in Chad
Mar 15, 2022
Around the World: Dominican Republic starts work on border wall with Haiti
Mar 08, 2022
Around the World: School looks at dropping Prince Andrew name
Jan 25, 2022
Around the World: 19 killed in Osaka fire in Japan
Dec 21, 2021
Around the World: Policeman kills six in shooting spree in Kenya
Dec 14, 2021
Around the World: 2 captives released by kidnap gang in Haiti
Dec 07, 2021
Around the World: Honduras gets first female president
Nov 30, 2021
Around the World: Girl shot by police but teenagers charged in USA
Nov 23, 2021
Around the World: Bodies still being found in Nigeria 10 days after collapse
Nov 16, 2021
Around the world: Death Row inmates sue in Japan
Nov 09, 2021
Around the World: Gay couple have son recognised as citizen in Namibia
Nov 02, 2021
Around the World: Policeman lynched in Cameroon after killing schoolgirl
Oct 19, 2021
Around the World: Sierra Leone bans the death penalty
Oct 12, 2021
Around the World: Kenya - Policeman fired while in a coma
Sep 28, 2021
Around the World: A Chess player from Georgia sues Netflix
Sep 21, 2021
Around the World: Australia - Women harmed by disgraced gynaecologist
Sep 14, 2021
Around the World: Thailand - Police chief, wanted over viral torture clip 
Aug 31, 2021
Around the World: Police drop blasphemy charges against eight-year old in Pakistan
Aug 17, 2021
Around the World: 8 year old faces death penalty in Pakistan
Aug 10, 2021
Around the World: Victims of IVF doctor who used own sperm win settlement
Aug 03, 2021
Around the World: H&M sales slump in China as customers boycott
Jul 06, 2021
Around the world: Freedom for abused French woman who killed husband
Jun 29, 2021
Around the World: Ebola outbreak is coming to an end in Guinea
Jun 22, 2021
Around the World: Six girls die in detention centre fire in Egypt
Jun 08, 2021
Around the World: Mali - Junta leader declares himself president
Jun 01, 2021
Around the World: Rastafari group seeks to legalise 'spiritual' cannabis
May 25, 2021
Around the World: Ivorian police rescue 68 children being used on cocoa farms
May 18, 2021
Around the World: Russian porn star being hunted by police
May 04, 2021
Around the World: Fireman in Spain sentenced for starting fire
Apr 20, 2021
Around the World: a second TikTok ban is lifted in Pakistan
Apr 13, 2021
Around the World: Belarus disqualified from the Eurovision
Mar 30, 2021
Around the World: Tanzania appoints first female President
Mar 23, 2021
Around the World: Last of Franco statues removed in Spain
Mar 09, 2021
Around the World: Japan Minister for women's empowerment opposes plan to allow keeping of maiden names
Mar 02, 2021
Around the World: Livestock Stranded at Sea that left Spain in December
Feb 23, 2021
Around the World: Tennesse introduces bill to allow fathers to stop terminations
Feb 16, 2021
Around the World: 95 year old charged with role in Nazi Deathcamps
Feb 09, 2021
Around the World: Daughter kept mother's body in freezer for 10 years
Feb 02, 2021
Around the World: Investigation into Nazi monkey
Jan 19, 2021
Around the World: Senegal culls 40,000 birds
Jan 12, 2021
Around The World: UN condemns execution of 'juvenile' in Iran
Jan 05, 2021
Around The World: Son Sues Parents Over Thrashed Porn Stash
Dec 22, 2020