The childhood friends who soared to stardom in very different fields: How ex-Catholic schoolgirls Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer were driven to success as heptathlete finally overcomes Olympic agony to bag World Championship gold A new star of British athletics was born last night as Katarina Johnson-Thompson won gold in the heptathlon Her sensational comeback story left her […]

After three years, we’re still on the Russia story. The locus has shifted 500 miles west from Moscow to Kiev, and now we are consumed with the Ukraine controversy rather than the Russia probe, though it’s essentially the same thing — a battle over President Trump’s legitimacy fought out with allegations of foreign interference. Democrats are trying to widen the […]

When the calendar turns to October, many people think of crisp autumn evenings, the changing colors of the forest and carving pumpkins for Halloween. However, this year, the start of October seemed to signal the return to summer from the Gulf Coast to the mid-Atlantic. The first two days of the month featured record warmth from New Orleans to New […]

TWO pals died of a heroin overdose on an overseas rugby tour after taking it by mistake, an inquest heard. Thomas Howard, 25, and Thomas Baty, 26, were “naive” about drugs and probably thought they bought something else. The best friends were in Sri Lanka for a tour with Durham’s Clems Pirates team which raises money for good causes. They […]

British Airways flight from Gatwick to Malaga lands at Barcelona ‘after fumes were detected in the cabin’ Angry passengers landed 500 miles away from their Spanish destination tonight One passenger claimed fumes appeared from the Airbus A320’s engine  Others described a frustrating lack of information from staff when they landed One wrote: ‘Not a single BA representative to assist … Just. […]

A photograph circulating on social media misidentifies Senior Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell and an ABC News crew as “external advisers” and “an operational support team” for protesters in Hong Kong. The picture was taken on Tuesday apparently from an apartment building at the intersection of Star Street and Monmouth Path in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong, next to […]

A settlement has been reached between MGM Resorts International and the legal team representing the more than 1,300 victims and survivors of the mass shooting that unfolded at the climax of the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas a little more than two years ago. According to a statement from Mo Aziz of Houston, Texas, law firm Abraham, […]

‘I got messages from people describing how they were going to murder me’: Amanda Knox reveals how she was ‘genuinely afraid’ to return to Italy for first time since prison release after receiving death threats Amanda Knox admits that she was ‘fearful’ about returning to Italy in her first interview since making the trip earlier this year ‘I still have […]

Taxpayers face £60m bill over Thomas Cook collapse to refund unpaid wages, holiday pay and redundancy costs for travel giant’s 9,500 former staff The Government has so far spent £100 million repatriating 150,000 Britons  Now the tax payer will have to fund a further £60m to cover unpaid staff wages Thomas Cook had asked the Government for a £200m loan […]

Woman catches ‘priceless’ video of a man breaking into her car Raw video: Suspect caught on camera breaking into a woman’s car in Beaverton, Oregon. Authorities in Oregon have a pretty big clue about who broke into several vehicles in a Portland suburb recently after one of the break-ins – and its stunned perpetrator – was caught on camera. The incident happened early Tuesday in […]