In what sounds like a scene from a Willy Wonka movie, a ton of German chocolate flowed down a road and hardened into sweet pavement amid cold temperatures.  It wasn’t exactly a dream come true for the 25 firefighters responsible for cleaning it up — using hot water, shovels and blow torches.  German newspaper Soester Anzeiger reported that a “small technical […]

A chromed replica of Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” is headed to the auction block. The statue is being auctioned off along with other goodies once owned by by the disgraced late military contractor David H. Brooks. The Long Islander died in federal prison while serving time for insider trading. Some of his former possessions will be available at live […]

Grace’s body was formally identified on Wednesday after she went missing from a hostel in Auckland on December 1. The man, who can’t be named for legal reasons, played for a number of top sporting teams, including a New Zealand under-19 side, the NZ Herald reported. He’s on remand after appearing in Auckland District Court on Monday charged with Grace’s […]

Donald Trump was directly implicated in felony campaign violations that could have his former lawyer headed to prison, but some top Republicans don’t seem to mind very much. CNN created a montage, via Twitter, of congressional Republicans shrugging off the allegations that Trump directed Michael Cohen to make hush money payments to women claiming they had affairs with Trump, doing […]

A 7-foot-tall, 300-pound college basketball prospect from Kentucky was arrested for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in a day-long attack, according to local reports. Jacob Walter, 18, the son of former NFL Bengals player Joe Walter, met up with the young woman at a house on Tuesday, but she told him she did not want to have […]

Tory leadership hopefuls including former Brexit Secretary Dominc Raab and Sajid Javid had stepped up secret canvassing of MPs yesterday as they prepared to pounce if the PM fell. And insiders said the talks would only intensify over the coming days given the Parliamentary deadlock over the Brexit deal. Hardline ine Northern Irish DUP boss Arlene Foster publicly played off […]

Meteorologists may have discovered what caused a mysterious blip in the weather radar in Illinois and Kentucky earlier this week. On Monday afternoon, large blips that would usually indicate stormy weather flashed across the radar maps showing southern Illinois and western Kentucky, but there was neither a storm system nor a raindrop in sight, according to the National Weather Service, […]

France was on high alert Wednesday as hundreds of security forces took part in a manhunt for a gunman who killed at least two people and wounded a dozen more at a Christmas market in eastern France. French authorities had previously said that three people were killed, but prosecutor Remy Heitz said Wednesday that two people were dead and a third was brain dead. The […]

Art teacher is sacked for allowing 18-year-old girl to take topless photos of 17-year-old classmate in a locked store cupboard for an ‘art project on the female form’ Karen Hutchinson, 46, from Lincoln, lent her camera to the girls for the shoot She was suspended then sacked by the Priory City of Lincoln Academy in Lincoln The pictures were published […]

First responders in California had to pry a suspect out of a grease vent inside a vacant restaurant he may have been trying to rob, authorities said. On Wednesday morning, Alameda County firefighters responded to the shuttered restaurant on Bockman Road in San Lorenzo, about 25 miles southeast of San Francisco, and “heard moaning coming from inside the building,” the […]