BORIS Johnson launches his pitch for power today by revealing he will hold EU chiefs to ransom to clinch a better Brexit deal. The Tory leadership favourite vowed to hold on to the £39billion payoff demanded by Brussels until they agree more favourable terms. He said: “Our friends and partners need to understand that the money is going to be […]

LIKE all parents, mine wanted me to enjoy a better start in life than they did. That’s why they came to Britain for the chance to build a brighter future for themselves and for their eventual family. Central to their vision was a better education. When my brothers and I were young, I remember my mum watching over us to […]

Moscow: Voters in Kazakhstan are choosing a successor to the president who had led the Central Asian country since independence from the Soviet Union, with a longtime loyalist expected to win easily. Sunday's snap election was called after Nursultan Nazarbayev's unexpected resignation in March. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who became acting President, is seen as certain to beat the six other candidates. […]

Fotis Dulos fails to make his $500,000 bail Police search the home of missing Connecticut mother Jennifer Dulos’ estranged husband; Jacqui Heinrich reports. Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, the Connecticut mother missing for more than two weeks, has hired high-profile attorney Norm Pattis to defend him. Pattis told The Hartford Courant that "trial by innuendo has convicted" […]

Labour’s by-election victory is marred by claims that a convicted vote rigger was at the centre of campaign after he was pictured with Corbyn and new MP at centre of anti-Semitism storm Tariq Mahmood received 15-month prison sentence in 2008 for voter fraud  Local Conservatives claimed Mahmood was ‘front and centre’ of the campaign Labour branded the allegation ‘false and […]

Former Tory Chief Whip and leadership contender Mark Harper says rival Boris Johnson should ditch his Halloween Brexit deadline because it could make Nigel Farage even stronger Former Tory Chief Whip said sticking to October Brexit date would boost Farage  Mark Harper said the only ‘credible’ plan was to postpone Brexit and to fight for an agreement with Brussels but […]

Thousands crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border that had been shut down for the past four months. Long lines of Venezuelans stood at two international bridges near the city of Cúcuta waiting to have their documents checked by Colombian officials, with some carrying children on their shoulders. Venezuelan […]

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is opposed to police testifying before a parliamentary inquiry into intelligence failures that preceded the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people, police said. Interested in Sri Lanka Easter Bombings? Police said in a statement that Sirisena met with senior officers Friday evening and told them he doesn’t favor intelligence officers being […]

A MUM has described her horror after she returned home from holiday in Greece to find her sick autistic son wasn't on the plane. Nicola Purdy and her kids Jack, 24, Alex, 12, and Darcie, 11, had gone on a Tui holiday to Crete on May 28 before flying home to Wales on June 4. When they arrived at Heraklion […]

Will new mum Meghan attend the Queen’s birthday parade? Royal fans hope Duchess of Sussex will make first public appearance since Archie’s birth at Trooping the Colour Meghan Markle is rumoured to be attending the Queen’s birthday celebrations It will be her first public appearance since introducing baby Archie to the nation The Queen will be at Horse Guards Parade, […]