BRITAIN'S record-breaking hottest year is set to end with a balmy 11C New Year's Eve – with fog causing travel chaos. As the UK sees in the new decade, temperatures are predicted to be higher than usual, days after the warmest late winter day since 1841. The mercury in Cassley, Scotland – more used to temperatures of -10C at night […]

Campaign to BOYCOTT Cyprus sweeps Twitter amid fury over British woman’s conviction for ‘lying’ that she was gang-raped by 12 Israeli men The 19-year-old was found guilty in Cyprus today of making up the rape story A #BoycottCyprus hashtag erupted on the social network following the ruling People said they would never take their daughters to the Mediterranean island Meanwhile […]

CAIRO — A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year. The death of protester Ahmed al-Khair, a school teacher, while in detention in February was a key point — and a symbol — in the […]

BEIJING — A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media said. He Jiankui, who was convicted of practicing medicine without a license, was also fined 3 million yuan ($430,000) by a court in […]

BORIS Johnson is plotting a brutal reshuffle of up to a THIRD of his top team after his huge election win. After the PM finally delivers Brexit and gets Britain out of the EU on January 31, he's expected to dramatically change his Cabinet to prepare for trade talks with the EU to start. But for the next few days […]

A grandmother said she was tased three times and arrested on her 70th birthday for not cooperating with sheriff’s deputies trying to arrest her grandson at her Florida home, a report said. The confrontation between Barbara Pinkney and members of the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office occurred last Thursday when the deputies tried to enter her home in search of Tevin […]

After declaring he would refuse to comply with a subpoena in President Trump’s impeachment trial, Joe Biden backtracked and said he would testify if hauled before Senate lawmakers. The former vice president on Saturday sought to clarify the comments he made on Friday when he told the Des Moine Register’s editorial board that the grounds to call him were “specious” […]

Google whistleblower’s wife, 29, is killed in a car crash after ‘she lost control of her vehicle and crossed into the path of an oncoming tractor-trailer’ Google whistleblower, Robert Epstein, announced the passing of his wife Friday Epstein said his wife, Misti Vaughn, 29, succumbed to injuries from car crash Vaughn’s truck spun out of control while she was driving in […]

Female staff refuse to use cash-strapped MoD’s new £15,000 gender neutral toilets because they are ‘too smelly’ Thirteen toilets turned from single-sex bathrooms to mixed loos at Whitehall HQ But a female civil servant has revealed no women feel comfortable using them She said: ‘I don’t go anywhere near the gender-neutral loos as they’re too smelly’ Female staff have refused […]

"My father is fine. Thank you for asking." He would not be so fine some 12 years later: both father and mother were shot by firing squad after the “Exceptional Military Court” convicted them of crimes against the Romanian people. The palace of the parliament in Bucharest, Romania. Credit:iStock Yet in 1977 all seemed right in the world of Nicu […]