Mother, 53, who lost her eye when she speared it on a twig after falling into a bush on the way home from a party sues housing association for £150,000 Terrie Scales, 53, was returning home from a party when she tripped and fell  The mother fell and speared her eye on a twig – and it later had to […]

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin spaceflight company has publicly offered to cover up to $US2 billion ($2.7 billion) in NASA contract fees so it can remain involved in the US government’s effort to return astronauts to the moon. The long-shot bid to persuade the space agency to change course comes after Elon Musk’s SpaceX was selected in April as the primary […]

Wild? They’re furious! Rival gangs of wild monkeys fight each other in front of shocked drivers in Thailand The monkeys are normally well fed by visitors but a Covid-19 lockdown has led to a renewed food shortage for the animals in Lopburi, central Thailand They were seen squaring off in front of the ruins of an ancient Buddhist temple  Footage […]

Equal pay has come to the Paralympics.  Paralympians and their Olympic counterparts are now being paid the same amount of money for winning medals, thanks to a rule that went into effect in Sept. 2018. The Tokyo Games is the first Olympics that has taken place since the rule was passed, though it was retroactively applied to the 2018 Winter […]

DRIVERS experienced chaos today as pile-ups closed the M25 and the M1 after multiple crashes. And in that traffic were the thousands of Brits who hit the beach on the first day of the school holidays. This morning an incident involving a lorry, two vans and two cars happened before 6am on the M26 near Sevenoaks that caused severe delays. […]

TOKYO — Four guys from Russia, wearing Russian colors, climbed up a podium to receive gold medals and listen to a Russian song right after a few onlookers chanted, “Rus-SEE-a, Rus-SEE-a,” the forever Russian chant. Russia, however, didn’t win the men’s gymnastics team event here Monday. Nope. Not at all. Russia? Never heard of it. Russia isn’t here. Or something […]

More On: delta variant A new Mary Tyler Moore documentary is coming to TV Here’s some good news for those who got the Pfizer vaccine Delta variant taking hold of Indonesia’s Papua as hospitals near capacity Masking for trouble: Biden admin reportedly mulls new face covering push amid Delta spike The US will keep in place COVID-19 travel restrictions for […]

Billionaire BooHoo owner is faced with tearing down ‘fortress-like’ gateway at his £2.8million mansion after council refuse retrospective permission Mahmud Kamani, 56, was given planning consent five years ago to put up gate But the gateway he built was bigger than the one approved by his council He applied for retrospective planning permission but this was turned down It means […]

The ‘Hunk in the Trunks’ who was once scared of water: How heavily tattooed Team GB star Adam Peaty powered to Olympic gold AGAIN in 100m breaststroke – spurred on by his artist girlfriend, mother and no-nonsense grandmother Mavis The star swimmer, 26, has said much of his success is due to his grounded parents Mark and Caroline Adam was […]

THE UK is now a perfect spot for Covid variants to emerge after relaxing restrictions, scientists warn. Brits are in a "prone position" to new strains to thrive, with cases still high and large number still not protected with both vaccine doses. Thousands of younger Brits haven't had their second jab, which gives the key protection against catching the virus. […]