SAN DIEGO — Tour operators and medical and dental offices in the Mexican border city of Tijuana are reporting a slowdown in business since a caravan of Central American migrants arrived. Tourists and visitors have been canceling planned trips to the Mexican state of Baja California since the border crossing shut down briefly a week ago, and according to tour-friendly […]

Angler Rob Crane reportedly snagged the giant fish north of Fraser Island. (iStock) A fisherman in Australia has been skewered online after reeling in a 1,431 pound black marlin off the coast of Queensland last week. ACTIVIST WHO THREW FISHERMAN'S TILAPIA BACK SLAPPED WITH $500 FINE Angler Rob Crane reportedly snagged the giant fish north of Fraser Island, which died during […]

He yelled with such force I had to hold on to my spectacles: QUENTIN LETTS listens to Attorney General Geoffrey Cox fight off MPs heckling his decision not to release full Brexit legal advice Geoffrey Cox, Attorney General, was making a rare appearance to defend Theresa May’s Brexit proposal  William Shakespeare’s little-known King Geoffrey IV, Part I was given its […]

Man dies after falling from top floor of shopping centre in front of horrified Christmas shoppers Emergency services attended the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow city centre Eyewitnesses said emergency services at scene and shopping centre evacuated  A spokesman for Police Scotland confirmed a man died after falling at 4.20pm  A man has died after falling from the top floor of […]

Hamill played the original Luke Skywalker in the film series and tweeted: “The real crime here is Mr. & Mrs. Walker saddling the poor guy with that name in the first place.” The 67-year-old actor tweeted on Sunday after 21-year-old Walker was arrested in Johnson County in the US state of Tennessee. Walker was arrested for violating his probation in […]

PIERS MORGAN: Seven things Donald Trump could learn from ‘loser wimp’ George H.W. Bush – the most calm, decent, humble inclusive and thoughtful of Presidents President George Herbert Walker Bush had a 7-point life code. It was based on advice he’d been given by his parents, and he put it down in writing to his mother Prescott in a letter […]

Woman, 20, suffers 40 per cent burns after being set on FIRE by two men she accused of molesting her in India The victim was in a field in Uttar Pradesh when two men tried to drag her away The 20-year-old woman’s father filed a complaint with police the same day But the men returned a day later, doused her […]

For 17 years, the fate of Jerry Michael “Mike” Williams remained a mystery. The young father packed up his gear on Dec. 16, 2000, and drove out to Florida’s Lake Seminole to spend a few hours duck hunting on his boat. It was his last solo outing before he was supposed to go on a weekend anniversary trip with his wife, Denise. […]

Mother and baby are all white! Berlin Zoo celebrates after polar bear gives birth Tonja slept up to 22 hours a day in recent weeks but rose early on Friday  She became restless and finally gave birth to a guinea pig-seized pup Thanks to new camera technology, doctors were able to monitor the pair  Touching CCTV shows Berlin Zoo’s newest […]

Dubai: The tiny, energy-rich Arab nation of Qatar announced on Monday it will withdraw from OPEC in January, mixing its aspirations to increase production outside of the cartel's constraints with the politics of slighting the Saudi-dominated group amid the kingdom's boycott of Doha. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organisation of 15 nations. Qatar has pulled out […]