Two sex offenders who were on the run from police were doused in blue paint and tied to a bench in a citizen's arrest.

James White, 48, and Jason Lydiard, 26, also known as Alexis Guesto, were spotted in south Armagh, Northern Ireland, by people who recognised them from police appeals.

White and Lydiard, both convicted paedophiles, were spotted in footage shared on social media with their hands tied behind their backs, having been covered in paint.

Another social media tycoon has been reported to profit from obtaining users' data with a Cambridge Analytica-affiliated man. For one day, the researcher, who got the personal info of millions of Facebook users, was granted massive public data from Twitter. It's said to be standard practice.

A link between Twitter and Cambridge Analytica has been brought to light after it was revealed that the corporation sold massive data access to a man behind selling info of 87 million Facebook users to a political consulting firm.

In 2015, Aleksandr Kogan's commercial firm Global Science Research (GSR) bought access to data from Twitter for one day. Kogan later became notorious for creating a quiz to obtain private information from Facebook for Cambridge Analytica. The Silicon Valley company admitted the fact. But according to Twitter, which conducted an internal probe, Kogan's firm didn't leak any private data. The sold information was based on tweets made from December 2014 to April 2015.

Journalists gathered to cover an explosion that had struck the Afghan capital earlier, when another deadly blast occurred.

A spokesperson for the health ministry confirmed that 8 journalists, including an AFP photographer, are among 25 people killed in double suicide blasts in the Afghan capital. The injured toll from the Kabul attack stands at 45, according to city's police spokesman.

The march of the Immortal Regiment, a procession in which each person celebrates a relative who fought in WWII by carrying their photo, is one of the most prominent Victory Day rituals. RT employees are also sharing their stories.

The vast majority of Russians had a relative that fought - or died - in the war against Nazi Germany, and these are just a few examples. Cameraman Mikhail Kondakov's great-grandfather was a flying ace who died in the Battle of Kursk in 1943, RT host Anna Knishenko's grandfather was wounded multiple times before dying in Leningrad in 1942, while the great-grandfather of Maria Alekseeva, the head of the news production team, made it through the war and reached Berlin.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Anshel Pfeffer reminded us, doesn't see the Israeli-Arab conflict as a problem in itself, but as an inseparable part of the clash of civilizations between Islam and the Western world ("The Netanyahu vision, in 467 pages," April 18). Israel to him is the West's spearhead in a 1,500-year-long struggle.

When his book "A Place Among the Nations" was published, I saw it as nothing more than propaganda, intended to invent an ideological cover for perpetuating the occupation sponsored by American neoconservatism in its most simplistic form. It's too bad that good people still fall into that trap.

Netanyahu has long understood the Palestinians are incapable of resisting the occupation by force, so the occupation won't end in the foreseeable future. But since no reality can remain for long without an ideological cover, and the biblical narrative doesn't sell well in the United States outside evangelical circles, he cast his lot, in the spirit of the neoconservative trend of the late 20th century, with protecting Western culture.

However, for more than 300 years Western culture has presented two approaches: the liberal approach from which democracy and human rights developed from the French and British Enlightenments, and the approach that subordinates the individual to an ethnic community and seeks legitimacy for politics in history. This branch began sprouting already at the end of the 19th century the various nationalist and racist rightist movements, including those that developed into fascism and Nazism.

Just when you thought we'd hit peak 'Russian meddling' claims, there's a whole new fear-mongering report in town. The Sunday Times has released an 'investigation' linking a pesky Russian bot army with Labour's June election gains.

Heaven forbid British voters may have been swayed by a lack of leadership by the Tories...

The Sunday Times exclusive, but apparently not in-depth, joint investigation with Swansea University claims that 6,500 'Russian' Twitter accounts sent messages of support for the British Labour Party in the seven weeks before last year's snap general election, sharing "mass-produced" and "orchestrated" political messages.

Many people think barristers strut around courtrooms barking 'objection'. It is as wrong as assuming the UK justice system can survive recent cuts
A war crimes trial is stopped because the government has privatised the supply of interpreters, and the company selected cannot present any who are qualified. Two women, in all likelihood repeatedly raped by their father as children, are humiliated, dehumanised and ultimately disbelieved in proceedings in which they did not stand a chance. Thousands of people every year are convicted of crimes by magistrates whose qualification for dispensing justice is filling out a form, passing an interview, doing some charity work and being willing to sit for 13 days a year, with 18 hours' worth of training. A man whose innocence should have been easily established in court is convicted of sexual assault because relevant evidence was not disclosed by the police. And meanwhile hundreds of hardworking, dedicated professionals are toiling in near impossible conditions.

This is a portrait of the criminal justice system in England and Wales today, as seen by the Secret Barrister, a criminal advocate who keeps his identity a closely guarded secret so that, he argues, he can be unrestrained in his critique. And unrestrained it is. The book is in part a guide to the system - a reminder of how few of us understand it - and in part a first-hand account of the personal dilemmas facing someone whose professional life is spent in and out of crown courts, police cells and prisons. It is above all a plea to rescue a justice system that has become utterly broken.

"Hell" is the word used by one supreme court judge. "Despair" is the experience of another in the court of appeal. Over the last near decade of austerity, justice has endured the deepest cuts of any departmental spending in the UK. Whole areas of law, including family, housing, immigration, debt and employment, have been taken outside the realm of publicly funded legal representation, leaving some of the most vulnerable people at the mercy of a system that is designed to be incomprehensible to even the most highly educated lay person.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday called on Israel to ensure that its security forces do not resort to the use of excessive force, following the many deaths and injuries sustained by Palestinians, including children, in Gaza over the past month. He also called for those responsible to be held accountable.

During the past four weeks, 42 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,500 injured - 1,739 by live ammunition fired by the Israeli Security Forces (ISF) - along the fence in Gaza. Thirty-five of those killed were taking part in demonstrations as part of the "Great March of Return". Most of them appear to have been unarmed or not presenting an imminent threat to the ISF at the time of their killing or injury. No Israeli casualties have been reported.

"Every week, we witness instances of use of lethal force against unarmed demonstrators," said the High Commissioner. "Warnings by the United Nations and others have seemingly gone unheeded, as the approach of the security forces from week to week does not seem to have changed."

Last week in London, I was visiting a residential area outside the city center to catch up with a friend who I hadn't seen in half a year.

We had ventured out for a meal, not far from her home, on one of those wonderful London streets where the mix of restaurants matches the cultural mix of the locals. An amazing Italian place is followed by an amazing Thai place, which is followed by an amazing Lebanese place, all within a few steps of one another.

Here, I have to say that my friend is light years removed from my world of 24-hour news cycles, politics, info-wars, etc. For once, I was having a night out, (mostly) not talking about work, not having to be an unofficial spokesperson for all issues related to Russia, just by the virtue of being Russian myself (if nearly 20 years of living abroad has taught me anything, it is that one does not have to work at RT to be held personally responsible for all the deeds of my government and most of Russian history; unless I condemn them all summarily and unequivocally).

The United Nations has issued a damning statement on the "disproportionate" amount of black and ethnic minority deaths in police custody as it claimed they are proof of "structural racism" at the roots of British society.

The UN's rebuke follows the release of data by the Metropolitan Police revealing officers used force against 12,605 people between April and July last year. One in three were black, despite them accounting for just 13 percent of London's population.

"The deaths reinforce the experiences of structural racism, over-policing and criminalization of people of African descent and other minorities in the UK," a panel of human rights experts said.