A “Vows” columnist for the New York Times who was run over by a double-decker sightseeing bus won a whopping $85 million award from a Manhattan jury late Tuesday. Devan Sipher, who describes himself as “a single guy writing about weddings,” was walking with the light in the crosswalk on Sixth Avenue at West Fourth Street on July 3, 2015, […]

Grr, it’s a bit of a jungle out there, dahling! CRAIG BROWN meets the stars of David Attenborough’s Dynasties in Africa The plan was to visit the set of the latest David Attenborough series, but my flight to Africa had been delayed. When I arrived, they were all packing up for the night. Thankfully, I was allowed into the VIP […]

Revealed: Only three in ten want their MP to reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal as pressure mounts to back PM The new survey reveals that the public are supporting Theresa May’s Brexit deal  More and more people believe that it is the only realistic deal Britain can expect  However, the public would want MPs to vote against the deal in […]

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will respond in kind if the United States decides to develop new intermediate-range nuclear missiles. The chief of staff of Russia's military, General Valery Gerasimov, echoed those remarks, saying that any European countries where the United States stationed intermediate-range missiles, such as Poland or Romania, would be the first targets in the […]

£260,000 Lamborghini is written off after careering into a field off the M40 in the early hours crash The Lamborghini Huracan flew into a field off the M40 on Thursday morning The bright orange super-car was battered and muddied in a field off the road Warwickshire police warned drivers to take care on wet winter roads   A flash £260,000 sports […]

Sure, there have been some real a***holes over the years. But this lot beats them all. Two years ago we had a vote on whether we wanted to stay in the European Union. The outcome was decisive. By 52 per cent to 48 per cent we voted to leave. The people had been given a voice. And the people said […]

A quick-thinking South Carolina woman shot and killed an inmate who broke into her house after escaping from a county jail, police said. The escapee, Bruce McLaughlin Jr., 30, died from a gunshot wound to the head early Tuesday when the unidentified homeowner blasted him, Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark said at a press conference Tuesday. After busting into the […]

Chris Dawson was arrested in the 1982 disappearance of his wife Lynette Dawson. (NSW Police) An Australian man who was the subject of the popular “Teacher’s Pet” podcast — which garnered global attention as it focused on the 1982 disappearance of his wife — was arrested Wednesday and is expected to be charged with her murder, police said. Chris Dawson, 70, […]

Mother sues day care for posting video of her two-year-daughter being terrified by the Easter bunny on Snapchat before it went viral and claims her child is now in THERAPY because of the fallout Surai Bryson, 2, was panicked by the Easter Bunny’s visit to her Florida day care The video  went viral when a school employee posted it on […]

George HW Bush has been celebrated with praise and loving humour as America bade farewell to the country’s 41st president and the last to fight for the US in wartime. Three former presidents looked on at Washington National Cathedral as a fourth – George W Bush – eulogised his father. “To us,” the son said of the father, “his was […]