A British tourist has revealed how she deliberately "travelled back in time" and flew across timezones to celebrate New Year's Eve twice. Cathy Price, 60, first saw in the start of 2020 in New Zealand and less than 24 hours later celebrated it again in remote Rarotonga, the largest of the Cook Islands. The Preston-based retired fitness instructor pulled off […]

Gold-digging boyfriend, 30, is jailed for a year for stealing nearly £25,000 from bank of girlfriend whose husband died of cancer – leaving her with just £23 of his life insurance payout left Andrew Baldry, 30, romanced woman three years after husband died of cancer  Mother-of-two, who cannot be named, had £25k from insurance to run her home Baldry spent […]

WARRING couples racing to split on “Divorce Day” today could face a month’s wait due to a surge in cases. The first working Monday after Christmas is when many call it quits following festive bust-ups. Family lawyer Samantha Farndale said: “A rush of cases at the start of January can create a real backlog for the courts, which creates delays. […]

LABOUR'S John McDonnell has demanded Boris Johnson condemn Donald Trump's drone strike on an Iranian military chief. The Shadow Chancellor – who has said he will quit after their disastrous election result – attended a Stop the War protest against the death of controversial general Qasem Soleimani yesterday. Addressing a crowd of 150 outside No10 Downing Street with Shadow Justice […]

A Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine is ready to strike Iran if tensions in the Middle East escalate to a full-scale combat, reports claim. The submarine, which is kept in the region at all times, is armed with 20ft-Tomahawk missiles which each carry a 1,000lb high-explosive warhead with enough power to destroy a building. The weapon has a range of more […]

A Massachusetts art professor allegedly gave killing the old college try — when she beat a fellow faculty member “she loved” with rocks, garden shears and a fire poker, authorities said. Mount Holyoke College professor Rie Hachiyanagi was charged with attempted murder at her Friday arraignment at Orange District Court and ordered held without bail until a Feb. 4 court […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States’ European allies were not as helpful as he was hoping following the US strike in Iraq on Thursday that killed Iran’s top military commander, Qassem Soleimani. “Frankly, the Europeans haven’t been as helpful as I wished that they could be,” Pompeo said in an interview late Friday on Fox News. The […]

A CHURCH founder sexually abused children and young adults over a span of four decades, police said. Henry Lee Porter Sr, 72, is a self-proclaimed bishop and was charged yesterday with sexual battery of a child after Sarasota police spoke to multiple accusers. He founded the Westcoast Center for Human Development and detectives only began investigating last October after a […]

Hot wheels! Stellar video shows amazing moment a skateboarder pulls off insane 360-degree loop trick in Barcelona Simon Isaksson and Transworld Skatboarding released a stellar video showing the athlete trying diligently to pull off the neat trick While the video was shared on YouTube on December 28, Isaksson performed the stunt much earlier in 2019 A skateboarder in Barcelona pulled […]

Beijing: The long arm of authoritarian China reached into my seven-year-old's bedroom in Beijing this month. To be specific, the world globe by his bedside became the latest target in the People's Republic of China's war on words. The globe was a night light that cast a reassuring glow as my son fell to sleep in our apartment, a Soviet-style […]