Indonesian police say they’ve arrested 185 people suspected of starting forest fires that are spreading a thick, noxious haze around Southeast Asia. National police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said Monday that police formally handed over investigations of 23 people to prosecutors last week, while 45 others will be tried later this month. Police are still investigating the rest. Prasetyo said the […]

A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom’s oil production threatened Sunday to fuel a regional crisis, as the U.S. released new evidence to back up its allegation that Iran was responsible for the assault amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s collapsing nuclear deal. Interested in Iran? President Donald Trump said the […]

Mountain rescue team swings into action in Lake District… to rescue a dog who was too TIRED to walk any further Keswick Mountain Rescue were called after a man’s dog refused to keep walking   The nine-year-old terrier had got tired on the Cumbria Way in the Lake District   Six volunteers and a search dog eventually found the pair and got […]

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has compared himself to the Hulk in a newspaper interview emphasising his determination to take Britain out of the European Union on October 31. Not Boris Johnson: The Hulk goes up against Iron-Man. Credit:Marvel He will have a lunchtime meeting in Luxembourg on Monday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to try to modify […]

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl is being charged with murder after stabbing her alleged rapist to death. In July, the teen made headlines after she confessed to cops that she knifed a bus driver to death who she claimed had kidnapped her in a deserted rural area near Cairo and tried to force himself on her. The girl said she tricked her […]

Cairo: Egypt's president has angrily dismissed corruption allegations made by a businessman-in-exile against the country's military as "sheer lies and defamation". In viral social media videos posted over the past week, the entrepreneur alleged large-scale misuse of public funds in the building of luxurious hotels, presidential palaces and a tomb for President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's mother, who died in 2014. "I've […]

BoJo will not blink in rebels stand-off REMOANERS take note: Boris Johnson is not for turning on his October 31 deadline. No10 is braced for a make-or-break showdown with MPs if BoJo defies their Surrender Act in Brussels tomorrow and refuses any extension offered by the EU. The PM’s aides are already predicting major court battles and attempted Parliamentary coups […]

Jealous, 007? Royal Navy gets REAL ‘Bond boat’: Secret craft turns into a submarine at the flick of a switch Carbon fibre speedboat which can turn into a submarine will help protect British ships in the Persian Gulf  The 39ft long vessel has echoes of James Bond’s sea-diving Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me The British made craft is […]

THE decomposing remains of William Moldt were strapped into the driver's seat of his submerged car after he drove into a pond for 22 years. No one noticed the vehicle beneath the surface of the waters in Florida until, by chance, it was spotted on Google Earth — the latest in an astonishing list of crimes solved by the digital […]

Drone attacks spark huge fire at world’s largest oil processing plant in Saudi and at second massive facility nearby as tensions in region reach boiling point following Iranian attacks on tankers Drone attacks spared fires at Aramco oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia today There was no immediate responsibility claim for attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais Tensions in the Gulf […]