Beijing: Rescue work after China’s most recent earthquake has been hindered by the country’s slavish adherence to a COVID-19 zero strategy, sparking protests and adding another layer of stress for residents and emergency personnel in the region that has already suffered dozens of deaths. After a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Monday in China’s vast southwestern region, […]

Julie Chin, the Oklahoma news anchor who had the beginnings of a stroke during a live TV broadcast, has revealed the alarming and incoherent text she sent her husband after the broadcast. “I need help. Something is not Run today. My work won’t work is working my help my,” the anchor wrote in a text. […]

Maybe it’s not QUITE finished: Hilarious moment new bridge collapses when dignitaries cut the ribbon in Congo – much to onlookers’ amusement! The bridge in Kinshasa was replacing a temporary structure which often broke Dignitaries gathered for the opening ceremony and stood on the new structure The moment the ribbon was cut, the bridge buckled […]

From Russia with Love? MI5, MI6 and GCHQ desperate to recruit Russian-speaking spies in wake of Putin’s war with Ukraine The UK’s top security agencies want applicants to help combat espionage The roles are based in the UK – but degree-level or advanced Russian is required Only British nationals or those with UK dual-citizenship can […]

Las Vegas: A Las Vegas-area elected public official has been arrested and identified by police as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June. Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home […]

Key points Roberts was found guilty of the 1998 murders of police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller in 2002, but that decision was overturned at a retrial earlier this year after he had spent 20  years in jail for the crime. Roberts admitted carrying out a series of 10 armed robberies with Bandali Debs […]

Major league JERK! Grown man steals baseball meant for little girl, while his girlfriend sits back and laughs: Mom slams fan who intercepted ball thrown to kids at Washington Nationals game An unidentified grown man at a Washington Nationals game intercepted a baseball thrown to a little girl in the stands Nationals outfielder Joey Meneses […]

Some-fins not right! Cops launch probe after seven-foot-long dead bull shark is found wearing sunglasses and lying on a towel with a bowl of food under its mouth on Florida beach Noslen Alvarez, a fisherman from Florida, found a dead bull shark with sunglasses on, lying on the sand of a beach Friday  Alvarez shared […]

Power-hungry mobster stands trial for murder of his own Bonnano and Lucchese-linked father, 71, for control of $45m empire: Paid Bloods gangster $200,000 for hit at McDonald’s DriveThru Prosecutors say Anthony Zottola hired a Bloods gang-member to shoot and kill his father, Sylvester Zottola, an associate of the Lucchese and Bonanno families They say Anthony […]

‘Ties are BACK’: Liz Truss warns No10 staff to smarten up as she bids to turn her back on the Dominic Cummings-style dress-down outfits of Boris’s Partygate premiership  Prime Minister Liz Truss is setting standards high from day one with a dress code She has reportedly told staff she expects them to wear ties and […]