Owner avoids having to close Bookends in Cardigan by raffling it off to customers who spent more than £20

A former Charleston police officer accused of killing has wife has been captured in China after 13 years on the run. A source with knowledge of the investigation says Dan Hiers is in custody in Shanghai. Hiers reportedly was living there under the assumed name David Williams. Goose Creek Police say Hiers shot and killed his wife in their Goose Creek home in 2005.

Should you apply for a patent for that new AI tech idea you've been working on? Some experts say it's better to have a patent portfolio than not, while others recommend focusing on quality rather than quantity. Here are things to consider as you make your decision.

Two trains built by the French train maker Alstom are now operating on a 62 mile stretch of line in northern Germany

Bowing to pressure from wildlife groups and after the Post revealed how shark fin was still being offered on under-the-counter menu, popular restaurant chain vows to halt sales by January 1, 2020.

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Bitcoin and other digital currencies are a "Wild West industry" and need to be regulated to protect investors, a committee of MPs has urged. Problems include volatile prices, minimal consumer protection and risks of hacking and money-laundering, says the Treasury Committee. The committee said there were no well-functioning crypto-currencies and preferred to call them "crypto-assets". It urged City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority to supervise them.

Over the past week, people in Australia have started noticing needles hidden in fruit: first in strawberries, and now in an apple and a bananas. Two people who accidentally ate the needles had to go to hospital, and the trend has thrown the Australian fruit industry into crisis.

New sorting algorithm yields more robust, replicable results than other methods.

Emmanuel Macron has branded the leaders of the campaign for Brexit “liars”, in an extraordinary attack at the close of the Salzburg summit. The Leave victory was “pushed by those who predicted easy solutions,” the French president said, adding: “Those people are liars. They left the next day so they didn’t have to manage it.”

A woman is dead and a tow truck driver is in critical condition in Watertown, Massachusetts, after the driver struck and killed the woman crossing the street, and her son stabbed the driver multiple times in the torso, authorities said.

A Japanese asteroid-sampling probe is about to get up close and personal with its target space rock. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft will drop two tiny rovers onto the asteroid Ryugu this week, possibly as early as Thursday (Sept. 20), if all goes according to plan. The Hayabusa2 team began prepping seriously for the epic maneuver last week. The current schedule calls for the mother ship to descend toward Ryugu today (Sept. 19) and for the two little disk-shaped robots...

President Trump has promised to revive coal's flagging fortunes. Is it possible?

The once-endangered vicuna is thriving in the Peruvian Andes, thanks to a bold plan to sustainably gather and sell its valuable fleece – and give locals a stake in its survival.

The evidence is in. A mysterious creature that lived on Earth over half a billion years ago has now been proven an animal. A fossil from 558 million years ago was so well preserved, it still had fat molecules.

President Andrzej Duda offered to host the structure as a bulwark against Russia. President Trump said Warsaw would have to pay billions to use his name.

John Kaag’s fascinating new book about the German thinker seeks to tether philosophy back to the mess of daily experience.

“We are about to drive a lot of dark money donors into the light—it’s gonna look like the climax of a Harry Potter movie where the creatures shrivel in the sun.” By Jon Queally.

The New York governor’s victory over Cynthia Nixon furthers the myth of the ‘inevitable’ candidate. By Matt Taibbi.

The Mega Drive Mini will be released in Japan and Europe around the same time the Genesis Mini hits North America.