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This is the moment a drug dealer attempted to flee a prosecutor's office while his arrest was being processed, before falling from a third floor stairway and landing on a security guard's desk.  The suspect, whose name was withheld by Medellín authorities, had been apprehended on January 11 for allegedly violating the terms of his house arrest in relations to a previous arrest for drug dealing, according to Colombian newspaper El Colombiano. Arresting officers had just removed the handcuffs from the individual and were waiting to take his fingerprints when he made a dash for the exit of the Medellín prosecutor's office bunker, surveillance video shows. The surveillance camera at a prosecutor's office in Medellín, Colombia, shows a drug dealer awaiting to have his fingerprints taken before he decided to try to escape on January 11. The suspect, who had been arrested for violating the terms of his home confinement, attempted to run out the facility but somehow tripped o

Leicester University has denied it is dropping literary giant Geoffrey Chaucer for being 'too white' after proposing replacement modules focused on race and gender.  Plans have emerged to shelve The Canterbury Tales and Beowulf - two of the most important works in English literature - in favour of a 'decolonised' curriculum. The English faculty has been told that the foundational texts could be replaced by more popular works - but Leicester said this wasn't down to their 'whiteness.' Dr Christine Rauer, a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, told MailOnline: 'It's hard to see why race, ethnicity, sexuality and diversity can't be taught alongside Chaucer and Beowulf. 'Bring in the new topics while also keeping the medieval! Curriculum planners should think big – their students will later compete with people who studied elsewhere and who have a much wider range. You will feel left out, if you only know half the story.'  Asked whether t

The jury in the trial of a butcher accused of raping and murdering a 21-year-old student has heard a witness describe hearing screams of 'desperation' lasting up to seven minutes on the night she disappeared. The prosecution alleges that the Hull resident woke up and saw out of his window the defendant Pawel Relowicz, 26, 'moving with purpose' away from the scene. The Polish-born father of-two, from Raglan Street, Hull, denies murdering and raping 21-year-old philosophy student Libby Squire, who went missing following a night out in February 2019. Sheffield Crown Court was told witness Sam Alford, whose home overlooks Oak Road playing fields, recalled being woken shortly after midnight. A couple of minutes after waking, he heard screams, the jury was told. The court was also given a toxicology report, which showed Libby had 198mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood, while the legal driving limit is 80mg. A witness has told Sheffield Crown Court hearing screams of 'desperat

Joe Biden will end the use of the word 'alien' as part of his proposed immigration bill which will put illegal immigrants on an eight-year path to citizenship. The term, which dates back to the 1700s, would be changed to 'non-citizen,' in a symbolic move as part of a four-page outline plan. The path to citizenship only applies to those present in the U.S. before January 1, 2021 - an attempt to prevent immigration reform leading to new pressure on the southern border. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to the major immigration legislation that the White House is proposing as 'basic principles' to work from. She talked up the proposal after the administration released a four-page fact sheet on its plan, which would allow undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship after an eight-year period.  It has not published the full text of a bill, with Pelosi's description suggesting that it may be up to the House and the Senate to hash out details.  Major immigra

An Australian tennis star confined to hotel quarantine has hit back at fellow players whingeing about the conditions by poking fun at their complaints in a hilarious video. Around 72 players in Melbourne for next month's Australian Open grand slam are unable to practice or leave their hotel rooms for 14 days after they arrived on one of three chartered flights with an infected case of coronavirus on board.     Australian world ranked 47 doubles player Ellen Perez, 25, is also holed up in hotel quarantine for the next fortnight after touching down in Melbourne from a last minute flight on Wednesday. She was left stranded in the Middle East last weekend after she reported having a runny nose before boarding one of the charter flights but has since tested negative. As a host of players and their partners in hard lockdown lashed out on social media complaining about everything from the food and lack of fresh air to the inability to practice and having to wash their own hair, Perez has

The poet W.H. Auden said that to understand your own country, you ought to have lived in at least two others. As a historian, I've taken a different tack: to show readers what life was like for people living in the 14th century; in Elizabethan England; during the Restoration of 1660; and the Regency some 160 years later. That way, I believe, we might be able to see our own lives and times in a different and revealing light. When I was researching my 'guide' to medieval England, no writer brought to life that period as richly and vividly as Geoffrey Chaucer, father of English literature and the greatest poet of the Middle Ages. Which is why I read with such dismay that a British university is now proposing to stop teaching Chaucer and his great medieval contemporaries to English literature students — indeed, to stop teaching all literature before 1500AD — in favour of modules on race and sexuality in a new, 'decolonised' curriculum. I read with such dismay that a Bri

A cyclist has uncovered a spider hidden under his bike seat after his wife urged him to check for creepy crawlies.  Tim Rackemann, from Brisbane, found the Australian Garden Orb Weaver Spider nestled underneath the seat before going for a bike ride. The 27-year-old audio technician said he only discovered the spider as part of a 'joke'. Tim Rackemann, from Brisbane, checked his red and black bike for spiders 'My wife said as a joke ''make sure you check under the seat for spiders'', so I jokingly looked under the seat at the same time the spider ran out from under it, up and over the seat, before it went back under,' he said.  Mr Rackemann then decided to film the sighting, to urge other Australians to always be on the lookout for spiders. 'This is why you always check underneath your bike seat when in Australia,' he is heard saying in the video. The footage showed Mr Rackemann's red and black bike, before moving underneath the seat and to

Indonesia may take years to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic with hospitals reaching breaking point and forced to turn away desperately sick patients. Those living in the nation's capital who have been struck down with the virus have been seeking ICU beds only for some to be turned away from as many as ten different hospitals. One 50-year-old man was riding in a taxi with his daughter on his way to his 11th hospital trying to seek treatment when he tragically died inside the car, gasping for breath. The country's borders were shut again in December to deal with the outbreak and to stop dangerous mutant strains coming in from overseas, leaving the tourist-reliant economy on its knees. Jakarta's death toll has now jumped to more than 27,000 after the city suffered its highest weekly number of fatalities in the week from January 11 to 17. Passengers are seen waiting for a Covid-19 test in Jakarta in the days before Christmas. Hospitals in the Indonesian capital have nearly r