Huge Victorian bushfire and NSW inferno could ‘suck each other in’ forming a firestorm in a matter of HOURS as thousands are ordered to flee for their lives NOW – but for some it’s far too late to leave Two major bushfires on either the Victoria and New South Wales boarder threaten to merge within hours Residents in Corryong are […]

Landlords who allow rented homes to get mouldy or too cold could face sanctions in new crackdown Sensors to be used in rental homes to check that they are not too cold or mouldy New trial scheme in Greenwich, London aims to crack down on dodgy landlords  The sensor data will be used to ensure that landlords then act to fix […]

Graphic new photos show a bruised corrections officer with his eye almost swollen shut after an inmate attack in a lower Manhattan jail. The officer, whose name was not released, suffered fractured bones around his eye and a broken nose when an inmate who refused to get in his cell attacked the guard at the Manhattan Detention Complex around 6:30 […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan  — Taiwan’s top military official was among eight people killed in an air force helicopter crash in mountainous terrain outside Taipei on Thursday, the defense ministry said. Five others survived. As chief of the general staff, Gen. Shen Yi-ming was responsible for overseeing the self-governing island’s defense against China, which threatens to use military force if necessary to […]

TENS of thousands of people in the path of raging bush fires in Australia have been ordered to leave the danger zones – as the death toll rose to 18. As temperatures soar to 46C this weekend, New South Wales fire chiefs warned tourists and locals on the coast south of Sydney: "Do not be in this area on Saturday". […]

A PASSENGER died on an easyJet flight to Newcastle on New Year's Day. The traveller, thought to be a man, became unwell while flying to the UK from Alicante, Spain. He was given treatment by crew members, with paramedics due to meet the flight when it landed yesterday. But he is said to have died before the plane could reach […]

London: The national security challenges facing Britain in the coming decade will be very different, and immensely more demanding than those it encountered in the decade we have just left behind. Compared with the global threats we face today, the entanglements of the past 10 years were, relatively speaking, fairly straightforward, and mainly the legacy of the counter-terrorism campaign launched […]

Agony! Misery! Woe! The state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation opted not to give state judges a pay hike next year. That means jurists won’t see a raise before 2024 … unless the Legislature decides to boost their pay, which for decades was the only way it went up. But somehow this has some judges crying a river. […]

A THUG suspected of repeatedly hacking his girlfriend’s head with a meat cleaver was being hunted by cops. Cleon Smith, 42, allegedly launched the vicious attack after dragging her from a car. The 42-year-old victim suffered cuts to her head and another wound to her hand in the assault in Handsworth, Birmingham, on Monday. A woman of 21 who was […]

Moment trainee doctor is arrested for disfiguring three teenage girls in random sulphuric acid attacks that rocked a Russian town Shamil Chaparov, 20, threw acid over three schoolgirls in Budyonnovsk, Russia Cycling trainee doctor splashed girls aged 14, 15 and 16 after demanding money All three victims needed plastic surgery after the two separate horrific attacks Critics outraged by sentence of five […]