A group of friends who booked a £5,500 luxury villa in Croatia for a two-week holiday were shocked when they showed up to find only wasteland. Chloe Melin and her friends arrived on the island of Hvar on Sunday, hoping for a relaxing holiday at the villa by the sea. They had booked the 'chic' villa, named "Villa Felipa", for […]

A Mexican judge has granted two people the right to use cocaine recreationally in the first ruling of its kind. Campaigners have hailed it as a ‘historic step,’ which comes as the government is considering legalising recreational marijuana use. The ruling allows the two unnamed people to ‘possess, transport and use cocaine’ but not to sell it. The court order […]

Costa Blanca has been hit by torrential rain causing the usual crystal blue waters to turn a muddy brown and streets to flood. Spain's Alicante province ground to a halt in some place as residents and tourists chose to stay indoors and roads were blocked by fast-flowing water. The bay of Alicante was shrouded in storm clouds today – without […]

Divorced mother of three, 56, is forced to sleep on daughter’s sofa and live through ‘absolute nightmare’ after builder left off skirting boards, electrics unfinished in project littered with faults  Nichola Evans, 56, from Swansea has been forced to couch-surf by a builder  After agreeing to 14 weeks of work in February Nichola still hasn’t moved back in  She now believes […]

LITTLE Khatra Paterson struggled to contain her excitement as she gazed up at the huge plane about to whisk her away from Britain on her first ever holiday. Aged just 10, she had no idea the dream trip her mum had arranged for her to "see family" in East Africa was actually part of a horrific plan to subject her […]

Ski-instructor escapes unharmed after falling off his bike during high speed Hell Biker’s race down a snow-covered mountain slope Ski-instructor narrowly escapes unharmed after falling during Hell Biker’s race He was racing down a snow-covered mountainside when he fell off his bike Others skidded past him and more people fell off in Les Deux Alpes, France  A ski-instructor has narrowly […]

Boat ‘carrying 11 migrants’ is towed into Dover a week after Iranian woman became first to die in bid to reach UK – with 1,050 attempting dangerous crossing in space of a year A boat believed to be carrying 11 migrants was stopped en route to Britain  Boat towed to Kent town where migrants will be questioned by Border Force […]

THIS is the hilarious moment a newlywed couple looked on in horror as their huge wedding cake toppled to the ground seconds after they had cut into it. Chloe and Aaron Bailey's wedding photographer captured the disastrous moment in a series of hysterical pictures at their plush venue in Northbrook Park, Surrey. Chloe, 28, and Aaron, 29, had even forked […]

If this alleged New Jersey neo-Nazi hadn’t wrecked his car last month, he could still be living under the radar — with a massive arsenal of weapons and white supremacist propaganda, authorities said Tuesday. Joseph Rubino, 57, crashed his car July 24 and the New Jersey State Police officers responding noticed something unusual while “extracting [him] from the motor vehicle […]

White House steps up sanctions against Venezuela to increase pressure on Maduro The Trump administration has frozen Venezuelan government assets in the U.S. in efforts to push Nicolas Maduro out of power; Blake Burman reports from the White House. The U.S. Navy is prepared to take action if needed in Venezuela, a top U.S. Naval commander said this week. Adm. Craig Faller, who […]