A per­son in Louisiana has the first se­vere ill­ness caused by bird flu in the U.S., health of­fi­cials said Wednes­day.

A court has ap­proved the ex­tra­di­tion of a 24-year-old Unit­ed States cit­i­zen, who is want­ed in the US on charges of sec­ond-de­gree mur­der and firearm of­fences.

The killing of a se­nior Russ­ian gen­er­al in a bomb­ing out­side his apart­ment build­ing in Moscow was the bold­est as­sas­si­na­tion yet of a top mil­i­tary of­fi­cer and again brought the war in Ukraine to the streets of the cap­i­tal.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a body this morn­ing in Cunu­pia. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice sources, the body of 38-year-old scrap iron deal­er Ke­shan Jun­groo was found around 6 a.m. on the side of the road­way near a bridge on Jonathan Street. The vic­tim was re­port­ed­ly stabbed.

The Mara­cas St. Joseph home of UWI lec­tur­er In­dera Sage­wan, near­ly caught fire when a high-ten­sion wire fell on her roof last night.

Po­lice are at this time search­ing for a 14-year-old boy who was kid­napped in front of his par­ents.

Af­ter gun­ning down 61-year-old Bar­rack­pore con­trac­tor De­onar­ine Ma­hase on Tues­day, the killer point­ed the gun at his friend and warned her to "stay in­side."

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty is is­su­ing a stern warn­ing to drone users not to fly their drones above 400ft.

The Gov­ern­ment is plan­ning to in­tro­duce leg­is­la­tion that will change and, in some cas­es, dis­qual­i­fy el­der­ly peo­ple who reach the age of 65 from ac­cess­ing the se­nior cit­i­zens’ pen­sion, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is warn­ing cit­i­zens.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Suzette Mar­tin will no longer be pros­e­cut­ed for dan­ger­ous dri­ving. 

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ex­pressed pro­found ad­mi­ra­tion for the brav­ery and self­less­ness of Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, high­light­ing her ul­ti­mate sac­ri­fice as she tried to pro­tect two of her chil­dren dur­ing a dev­as­tat­ing fire that claimed all three of their lives on Mon­day.

Ques­tions are now be­ing raised about why mem­bers of the T&T Fire Ser­vices (TTFS) al­lowed Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters to ac­cess the burnt-out ru­ins of the late Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian's home on Mon­day, fol­low­ing the fire that claimed the lives of the min­is­ter and her two chil­dren.