A PREDATOR who raped a 12-year-old girl after grooming her online has been jailed amid fears he targeted more victims. Driss Serhir contacted the girl on Snapchat and persuaded her to travel with him to London. Once in the capital, the 21-year-old told the youngster he had a gun and knife and took her mobile […]

UNDERDOG Kemi Badenoch could pull a blinder today and make it to the top three of the Tory race to be PM.   The leadership hopeful's popularity surged in recent days, with last night's round of voting putting her in touching distance of third place. The fight to be PM stepped up a gear yesterday […]

A PROFESSIONAL skydiver has died in a base jumping accident hours after an Instagram post on the "precious privilege to be alive". Ukrainian daredevil Maxim Slobodian, 31, crashed into an obstacle and fell 1,000ft in mountains above Lake Walenstadt, Switzerland. The thrillseeker – known as Maxim Ignite on TikTok and Instagram – had done 8,100 jumps, […]

Hot and bothered commuters were offered the chance to escape the heat – with a billboard that cools you down. With temperatures reaching heights of 38.1C yesterday, millions have been feeling the heat as they battled public transport delays and cancellations to get into work. But those heading through 83 Redchurch Street Shoreditch, in London’s trendy east […]

In the early days of the pandemic, the federal government launched Operation Warp Speed, the public-private initiative aimed in part at speeding up the development of vaccines. It proved to be a success, bringing the first Covid vaccines to the market in about 9 months, an unheard-of time frame for a process that normally takes […]

Hotels the Australian government used to hold refugees and asylum seekers were “functionally” detention centres with tinted windows, a lack of fresh air, guards and restrictions on freedom of movement, the Federal Court was told on Tuesday. The court is being asked to decide whether the Commonwealth acted unlawfully by detaining Kurdish refugee Mostafa Azimitabar […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s government warned on Tuesday it would take “forceful measures” if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, after the Financial Times said she would go to the Chinese-claimed island next month. Pelosi and her delegation will also visit Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, and spend time in Hawaii at […]

IN these hot temperatures, we need somewhere to cool off but unfortunately not all of us are lucky enough have a pool in our household. That is why in the UK, you'll find many people that would go wild swimming and here we explain everything about it. What is wild swimming? Wild swimming is when […]

CHILLING details have emerged in the case of a six-year-old girl who tragically died after she was rescued from a "house of horrors". Cops have launched an investigation into the death of little Charlie, after she was found at a house in Adelaide, Australia, alongside her five siblings aged eight to 29. South Australia Police […]

A four-month-old baby has died after being snatched from his parents and thrown off a building in India. His father, Nirdesh Upadhyay, had carried the infant out onto his third-floor roof terrace, accompanied by his wife, after a power cut at their home in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh state, on Friday. The gang of monkeys then […]