Fleets of luxury cars, exotic homes and the ultimately party lifestyle – all billing the taxpayer for thousands of fictitious claims: How disgraced lawyer at the centre the ‘biggest legal aid scam in UK history’ conned us all out of £22m Blavo & Co Solicitors amassed the enormous sum from bogus legal aid claims  John Blavo 57, has been ordered […]

A day after Mayor Bill de Blasio spent more than half his State of the City speech touting his great accomplishments on behalf of New Yorkers, a pregnant FDNY worker called into his WNYC radio show to ask why she doesn’t get any paid maternity leave. A woman named Jesse, who said she works as a trauma specialist for the […]

Hungry brown bears square up in brutal battles over a whale carcass after it washes up in Alaska Huge male bear attacks a female and her cub on the Katmai coast in Alaska The pair fight as they feed on a whale carcass that had washed up on the beach Another bear soon intervenes in the fight and gives the […]

CCTV shows how the no-nonsense veteran attacked the men in St Petersburg, Russia while in a fast-food restaurant. The Second Chechen War veteran was about to order his food when the men behind him starting talking about his bag, according to reports. One of the men reportedly said the bag was “feminine looking” and that its owner might be “gay”, […]

British hacker, 30, who masterminded cyber attack on Liberian telecoms firm for £25,000 payoff from rival company is jailed for nearly three years Daniel Kaye, 30, of Egham, Surrey, was paid to disrupt the systems of Lonestar  He created a botnet called Mirai £14 which disrupted its computer network  Kaye was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court today for a total […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German conservative Friedrich Merz said on Friday he would not be taking a new post with the Christian Democrats, contradicting the party and exposing lingering divisions after he lost the race to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as CDU leader. The CDU said on Thursday that Merz, a former Merkel rival, would take a party post focusing on […]

On Friday, the Barron County Sheriff’s Office updated the public on the recovery of Jayme Closs, who was allegedly abducted in October by a 21-year-old man who police say fatally shot her parents. Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said she survived the traumatic ordeal because of her resolve and bravery. “It’s amazing, the will of that 13-year-old girl to survive […]

And that's just for starters. Kitchens covered in fat and grease, mouse infestations and non-existent standards of hygiene mean those that work there often need a strong stomach. This week disgusting images emerged of mouse droppings and carcasses as well as rotting meat in the a Chinese fast-food restaurant in Wirral . From delivering to stoned teenagers to getting an […]

Breakaway German far-right party adopts secret Nazi symbol: Cornflower image used by banned Nazi groups in 1930s Austria becomes ApD’s emblem André Poggenburg resigned from far-right AfD because it had ‘shifted to the left’ He has now set up his own party, the ApD, which uses cornflower as its symbol  Flower is the same used by banned Austrian Nazi groups […]

Robin Davie, 67, was due to return home to Falmouth, Cornwall on Tuesday after a 300 mile solo cross-Channel voyage from Les Sables d'Olonne, France. He set out on January 5 telling his brother Rick he would be home on Tuesday but has not been heard from since. Falmouth Coastguard has issued an 'All Ships Alert' for Davie. Davie is […]