Heathrow’s great mountain of uncollected luggage gets BIGGER: Airport admits it has an ‘issue with baggage system’ as thousands of suitcases pile up and passengers are told it could be days before they are reunited Staggering images show hundreds of bags stacked together in what’s been described as a ‘luggage carpet’ Bosses have blamed disruption on a ‘technical issue’ with […]

Rail and Tube strikes WILL go ahead as last-ditch talks fail while Treasury warns giving in to strikers’ pay demands will boost spiralling inflation The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Union strike demanding pay rises for workers is set to go ahead  The Union also claims Network Rail plans to cut jobs and reduce spending – with impact on customer […]

St Petersburg: President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russia’s economy will overcome “reckless and insane” sanctions, while condemning the US for acting like “God’s own messengers on planet Earth”, at the country’s showpiece investment conference. On Friday (Russia time), Putin began his address to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum with a lengthy denunciation of countries that he contends want […]

France BANS outdoor events as parts of the country hit 40C as record-breaking heatwave sweeps Europe with a number of hospitals ‘at capacity’ and schoolchildren in ‘red alert’ areas told to stay at home France banned outdoor events while Spain battled to contain forest fires that forced hundreds from homes Temperatures were around the mid-30s in both while the mercury hit […]

Germans are told to use less energy after Russia cut gas supplies through key Nord Stream pipe by 60% blaming ‘technical problems’ German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck urged residents to reduce their gas use Russia said on Tuesday it would cut supplies by 40%, and by 60% on Wednesday State-owned Gazprom made the announcement and blamed technical problems  Germans have been […]

Asylum seeker on board Rwanda flight says he would ‘never have come to the UK’ if he had known about the deportation policy Iraqi, known as KN, wants to be released from detention and stay in the UK He claims to have been trafficked from Turkey to France and then into cross-Channel dinghy He said: ‘If I had known about […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic and Republican senators were at odds Thursday over how to keep firearms from dangerous people as bargainers struggled to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for their self-imposed deadline of holding votes in Congress next week. Lawmakers said they remained divided over how to define abusive dating partners who would be legally barred […]

By Shreyashi Sanyal and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes tumbled on Thursday, with growth shares bearing the brunt of the selloff, after the Federal Reserve's largest rate increase since 1994 to combat decades-high inflation fanned worries of a recession. All of the 11 major S&P sectors fell in morning trade. Energy and consumer discretionary sectors were the top […]

BRITS have stormed beaches up and down the country today as temperatures hit a sweltering 29C amid a mini heatwave that is set to bring the hottest day of the year TOMORROW. The UK recorded the hottest day of the year for the second day in a row as the mercury soared – smashing Wednesday's 27.8C scorcher. It comes as […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Delaware man who flew the Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was found guilty along with his son of the felony charge of obstruction during the storming of the building, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden also found the father, Kevin Seefried, and son Hunter Seefried guilty […]