A girl almost strangled by her father in an alleged ‘honor killing’ claims he threatened to murder her several times and abused her at home. Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, were charged with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, and assault after the attack on October 18. The girl, 17, who wasn’t named, ran away from home to Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, after her parents tried to put her on a plane to Iraq.

Storm Bert left a trail of carnage in its wake this weekend as an urgent search for a missing dogwalker was abandoned on Saturday afternoon. It comes after a day of chaos where three motorists were killed after two fatal crashes and a car was crushed by a falling tree. Another driver escaped tragedy after a different tree crushed his vehicle, while ten people including five children were rescued from a landslide in Wales.

New polling has suggested Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to president-elect Donald Trump’s plan to pardon January 6 defendants. During his campaign, he had pledged to ‘absolutely’ pardon those involved in the January 6 Capitol storming, frequently referring to them as ‘patriots’ and ‘hostages’. When Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, he will have the authority to wipe those cases of the 1,488 people charged in relation to Jan 6.

Former President Bill Clinton has addressed a bizarre claim his staff deliberately tore the letter ‘W’ from White House keyboards to hinder his successor, President George W Bush – and admitted that the long-running allegation might be true. Writing in his new memoir, Citizen – My Life After The White House, Clinton, 78,  recalls how a media ‘feeding frenzy’ marred the handover to Bush in 2001 amid claims departing staff had vandalized the West Wing. At the time, it was said that filing cabinets were glued shut, obscene messages left on answering machines and pornographic pictures placed on office printers.

A North Dakota Target is facing backlash for firing a woman who wrote ‘Trust in Jesus’ on her name tag. Denise Kendrick, an employee of the store in Fargo, said she was fired on November 16 over a dress code issue. She put ‘Trust in Jesus’ and a drawing of a cross on her name tag for that shift, but was approached by a manager who told her she could not wear it, according to KVLY.

With a growing number of Americans considering leaving the country after Donald Trump’s election as president, one young woman has warned fleeing for politics isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. Google searches on on ‘how to move to countries’ massively increased after Trump’s win, with relocation firms saying 80 per cent of people want to move specifically for political reasons. Celebrities such as Barbra Streisand, Cher and Sharon Stone and Barbie star America Ferrera all said they’d leave if Trump won.