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El Paso victims file lawsuit against Walmart accusing it of 'gross negligence'

Jessica and Guillermo Garcia are demanding answers as to why there were no security guards in place to prevent the shooting at an El Paso Walmart in August, killing 22 and injuring 24.




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Now that's service! Walmart manager personally comes to woman's home to fill her flat tire with air

The woman, in a video of the manager providing her with the unexpected personal service, and in a video of his good deed that's gone viral, later drove her car to the store to get the flat fixed.




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Two shoppers in a Georgia Walmart have an impromptu sing-along to Luther Vandross duet

A crowd gathered at the Walmart Supercenter in Alpharetta, Georgia, and witnessed two strangers share a beautiful moment in song. Video was filmed last year but recently went viral.




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An elderly stranger helps a grieving son put on a tie ahead of his father's funeral in Ohio 

Kevin Butcher was selecting an outfit for his father's burial in a Milford Walmart on Monday with his wife, Sherri, but neither of them knew how to tie a tie.




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Kroger and Walgreens become latest retail giants to stop e-cigarette sales following vaping deaths

Kroger, which also owns Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer and other store brands, announced Monday that it will cease all e-cigarette sales after selling through its current inventory. Walgreens followed suit.




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Paramotor drops into Walmart to get peanut butter and jelly to make a sandwich 'in-flight'

Pilot Anthony Vella 'craved' a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so flew his paramotor to El Paso's Walmart, Texas, to get ingredients and made the snack mid air, in clip posted on September 20.




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DWP tests artificial intelligence system to judge whether benefit claims are TRUE

The UK government is working with New York-based UiPath, co-founded by billionaire Daniel Dines whose £7billion company is viewed as a future Google of robotics and Artificial Intelligence.




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Nearly 6,500 pounds of ready-to-eat sausage patties sold at Walmart recalled over salmonella fears

George's Prepared Foods, which prepares Walmart's Great Value Brand, has recalled 6,444 pounds of read-to-eat frozen meat products after a small sample was discovered to have salmonella.




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FDA says Pepcid and Prilosec do NOT contain carcinogen in Zantac

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday told Americans that Prilosec, Pepcid and other alternatives are free of NDMA found in Zantac - but they have other risks.




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R&B crooner Chico DeBarge arrested for possession of methamphetamine 

The crooner was found with methamphetamine when he was picked up in Burbank earlier this month. DeBarge was approached by police after being seen trying to open an SUV with wire.




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War criminal pardoned by Trump complains it's 'impossible to find a job - even at Walmart or Target'

Former US Army 1st Lt Clint Lorance (left) tweeted on Thursday that it was 'impossible to find a job' despite the fact that he was granted a full pardon by President Trump (right) last month.




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Woman, 85, gets lost on her way to Walmart and drives more than 250 miles

Janet Finegan set off for the store from her home in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, on December 23 but got lost on the way and inadvertently drove hundreds of miles.




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Man dies after getting stuck in donation bin near Walmart and is found after legs spotted poking out

Clarksville, Tennessee, police responded to a report on Sunday of a man who appeared trapped in a clothing and shoe donation bin near the Walmart supercenter on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard.




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Hilarious moment pooch doggedly ignores nearby driver as it sits in car passenger seat like a human

The stubborn pooch was filmed in a car park in Walmart in Toronto, Ontario in Canada. The recorder is heard saying 'What's up!' and 'I can see you!' but the dog continues to ignore him.




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Man charged with trying to rape woman in Florida Walmart

Andrew Brooks Handley, 24, was arrested at the Walmart in Plantation, Florida on Saturday morning after trying to rape the woman in a store aisle.




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Aisle get you now! Texas Walmart shoppers are treated to an impromptu WWE display by three young men

After spending hours searching for a suitable spot, the group settled on the Walmart store. Adrean Jeffries filmed three friends as they simulated a fight reminiscent of a WWE match - ref and all.




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Bodycam footage reveals moment mom is arrested trying to light a nail bomb inside a Walmart

Bodycam footage shows the moment an officer approaches Emily Rae Stallard at a Tampa, Florida, Walmart while she is holding a lighter. She later denies the bomb-making materials are hers.




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Virus overwhelms WalMart: Biggest chain in America joins grocery chains who are cutting store hours

Walmart is the latest in a line of major grocery store chains forced to reduce its hours on Saturday amid the coronavirus pandemic as panic shopping continues.  




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Trump urges Americans to stop stockpiling and tells people coronavirus is under 'tremendous control'

Donald Trump insisted Sunday that people stop panic buying and hoarding food and goods as the coronavirus death toll in the U.S. hit 63 and cases neared 3,500. 




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Amazon, Walmart struggle with surge of orders amid coronavirus

Amazon, Walmart and other retailers have all experienced a huge increase in online orders as the coronavirus continues to spread across the US.




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Seven-month-old boy in South Carolina is the youngest person in US to test positive for coronavirus

South Carolina mother Courtney Watts Doster has shared her baby Emmett's battle against coronavirus in a desperate Facebook appeal where she warned COVID-19 can strike even the very young.




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Lawyer for evangelical megachurch defying social distancing orders is in hospital with coronvairus

Jeff Wittenbrink, 59, who represents the Life Tabernacle Church, is now on oxygen at Baton Rogue General, struggling to breathe after coming down with the virus.




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California police spark outrage after shooting and killing bat-wielding man

A civil rights lawyer has identified the black man who was shot and killed at a San Leandro, California, Walmart on Saturday after swinging a bat as Steve Taylor, 33, a father-of-three.




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Walmart customer PEPPER SPRAYS fellow shopper who tried to get on the same elevator

The incident occurred Monday afternoon at the franchise's supercenter in downtown Washington, D.C.




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El Paso shooting victim dies in hospital nine months after the rampage that left 23 dead at Walmart

Guillermo 'Memo' Garcia who was shot in the August 3 attack targeting Latinos in an El Paso Walmart has died after nine months in the hospital, raising the death toll from the attack to 23.




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Amazon, Walmart, Target and FedEx employees plan joint walkout

Workers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and FedEx plan to take part in the May 1 protest by calling out sick or walking off the job site, according to The Intercept.




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Workers from Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, Target and Walmart join forces to stage a mass sick-out

Hundreds of essential workers at some of America's biggest companies have called out sick or are planning to walk off the job Friday afternoon.




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Erdogan warns the 'gates of Europe' will open to Syrian refugees 'when the time comes'

In a provocative speech in Ankara, Erdogan (pictured today) savaged Western powers for refusing to take in millions of refugees and threatened to send to Europe to 'see how they deal with it'.




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President Erdogan redoubles threat that he'll flood Europe with millions of refugees

Erdogan made the threats today by saying: 'If there is no support for the projects we are developing for between one and two million refugees, we will have no option but to open our doors.'




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Donald Trump boasts that al-Baghdadi strike is bigger than Obama's hit on Osama bin Laden

Donald Trump has boasted that the U.S. military raid on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that led to his death is a bigger triumph that Barack Obama's strike against Osama bin Laden.




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Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden has a message for dead ISIS leader al-Baghdadi

After President Trump announced Sunday morning that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'died like a dog' in an overnight raid Robert J. O'Neill took to Twitter to bid adieu to the ISIS leader.




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Trump calls Schiff 'the biggest leaker' as reason he refused to tell Dems about al-Baghdadi raid

Donald Trump charged Adam Schiff with being the 'biggest leaker in Washington,' claiming this as the reason he did not share plans of the raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's hideout with Congress.




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Trump watched drone video not body cam footage of al-Baghdadi operation so 'didn't see him whimper'

Trump described Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as 'whimpering and crying and screaming' when he killed himself in his Syrian compound. But the president did not have live video or audio footage.




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Donald Trump says he is considering releasing footage of the raid which killed Baghdadi 

Donald Trump said on Monday he may release the footage of the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi amid questions about his description of it.




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Death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi unveils 'significant intelligence' for Australia

Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne said sensitive information was found when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by US forces in Syria on Sunday.




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Syrian refugee who aced Year 12 exams becomes an Australian citizen

Saad Al-Kassab, now 22, made nation headlines in 2016 after scoring am ATAR or 96.65 and being named dux of his Catholic school in Melbourne. He had fled from Syria two years earlier.




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The news images of the year: Brexit anger, Hong Kong protests and Theresa May's tearful goodbye

Getty Images have published their annual News Images Of The Year - a poignant collection of photographs from politics (pictured), war zones and current affairs in 2019.




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Erdogan lashes out at Congress for recognizing Armenian genocide

Turkey's leader became a problematic guest - denying Armenian Genocide occurred, demanding the U.S. hand over an Islamic cleric, and complaining America's Kurdish allies are terrorists




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Lindsay Graham 'admits blocking resolution recognizing Armenian genocide so as not to upset Erdogan'

Lindsey Graham has admitted blocking a Senate resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide because he was afraid about upsetting Erdogan while he was still in Washington.




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Jihadis face execution without trial in Syrian jails as Assad says ISIS members will be hanged

Membership of Islamic State (IS) is a hanging offence in Syria and President Bashar al-Assad has now said members of IS in the country will be brought to justice.




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Man fleeing from leopard is just one image to make it onto AFP's best photos of 2019 list 

From an emotional Theresa May announcing her resignation to damage caused by Storm Dorian in the Bahamas, AFP has published a selection of its best and most poignant photos of the year.




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Syrian refugee, 18, who arrived in Britain eight years ago studies medicine at Cambridge

Nazh Chendi barely spoke a word of English when she arrived in Britain as a refugee from Syria eight years ago. She is now studying medicine at Cambridge University.




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German gay man reveals how he turned to far-right political party AfD after homophobic attack

Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls meets Karsten, 55, from Bremen in tonight's Travels In Euroland on BBC2, to find out why the gay man voted for far right party, Alternative for Germany.




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Camila Cabello marks 23rd birthday with heartfelt message to shed light on Syrian civil war

Camila Cabello took some time on her birthday on Tuesday to think about those a lot less fortunate than her - namely, the youth of Syria.




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Syrian girl who was taught to LAUGH at bombs has managed to escape to Turkey

Three-year-old Syrian girl Salwa has safely reached Turkey, it has emerged. Her father came up with a game to make his daughter laugh every time bombs fell near their home in Idlib,




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Syrian-born refugee becomes a hospital cleaner after 'England welcomed me with open arms'

Hassan Akkad, who fled to the UK after he was imprisoned and tortured in Syria, is working at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London after deciding he had to do something to help.




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Police arrest a man suspected of travelling to Syria to engage in 'hostile activities' 

Counter terrorism police have arrested a man suspected of travelling to Syria to engage in 'hostile activities'. 




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London congestion charge fines to increase to £160 in 2018

Motorists will still be offered a discounted early payment fine within the first 14 days of receiving the Penalty Charge Notice (PCN), but that will also increase from £65 to £80 under the new rules.




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London Tube 'fare-dodger' suffers the ultimate humiliation

The man's screams of agony can be heard as people line up to witness the incident. Police and London underground staff members worked to free the young man from the Covent Garden barriers.




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Video shows fight among Tube passengers on train 

Filmed by a passenger and posted on Facebook, the dramatic footage shows the brawl breaking out while the train waits at the platform at Highbury & Islington station in North London.