Wife of billionaire ex-Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed launches High Court legal battle to stop construction of huge crematorium half-a-mile from their £4.6m 17th century Surrey manor Horizon Cremation Ltd had their plans for a new crematorium approved in 2021  Heini Wathen-Fayed is heading up the court bid to prevent the work going ahead Other residents […]

ALMOST half of meat-eating Brits have admitted being "pleasantly surprised" by the taste of plant-based food. The No Meat Company revealed out of 2,000 adults who eat meat, 46 per cent have previously turned their nose up to alternatives, only to be surprised by the flavour when they actually try them. 48 per cent confessed […]

A teenage skier has died after crashing into trees at Thredbo ski resort in southern NSW. About 11am on Sunday, emergency services were called to the ski fields after an 18-year-old skier lost control on the slope, veered off the hill and hit trees. The lifts at Thredbo on the opening day of the season. […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc workers in Maryland voted on Saturday to join a union, becoming the first retail employees of the tech giant to unionize in the United States. More than 100 workers in Towson near Baltimore "have overwhelmingly voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers," the union said on its […]

A MYSTERIOUS plane that buzzed six NATO countries before being abandoned was sold a Russian speaking man the week before the bizarre flight. The suspicious six-seater was spotted by the Hungarian and Romanian Air Forces flying through their airspace and over Poland, Slovakia and Serbia before landing in Bulgaria. Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the low-flying and slow moving plane as it sparked chaos. […]

Establishment all-boys school Scotch College has again looked north to Sydney to select a new principal, but not before conducting a “forensic investigation” into his background after its earlier choice for the role put the school into damage control. Scotch has appointed Dr Scott Marsh, the headmaster of an Anglican co-ed school on Sydney’s fringe, […]

A GRANDMOTHER has died days after heroically diving into a lake in a failed attempt to save her drowning granddaughter. The woman died on Saturday, one week after she was found unresponsive and the teen was found dead at West Point Lake. The 49-year-old woman died in a Georgia hospital on Saturday a week after […]

Queen and Charles will now be the ONLY royals honoured with Union Flag over government buildings on their birthdays while William, Kate, Anne and Edward lose the privilege in order to ‘avoid embarrassment for Prince Andrew’ Queen and Charles only with Union Flags on government buildings for birthdays Honour stripped from Andrew, William, Kate, Anne, […]

Bogota: Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who vowed profound social and economic change, has won Colombia’s presidency, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history. Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 720,000 votes. The two had been technically tied in […]

Shameless MPs file official complaints saying their portions of taxpayer-funded Parliament food are not large enough Workers in the House of Commons are complaining about their subsidised food Some MPs and staff have complained about the range of ‘spicy food’ available Others suggested the range of ‘traditional food’ is insufficient for demand MPs have complained […]