Israel Palestine conflict LIVE: More than 700 killed in Gaza as strip is pounded by Israeli warplanes after Netanyahu vowed retaliation against Hamas over shock attack Here, follow MailOnline’s liveblog for all the updates on the crisis between Israel and Palestine today. Chilling text family of five slaughtered in Hamas's attack on Israel sent to […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Foreign Minister Penny Wong has backed Israel’s right to defend itself as the nation announced it would impose a complete siege on Gaza, including cutting off supplies of electricity, food, water and fuel to the Palestinian enclave. As […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On Saturday evening Australian time, the messages and social media posts from friends at a festival in southern Israel began rolling in. Pleas for help, footage of unimaginable terror and messages of abject fear filled my screens and […]

THIS is the horrifying moment a thug carrying a machete lunged at a man outside a college campus. Two pupils from Oaklands College in St Albans, Hertfordshire, were stabbed in the side and the arm, according to witnesses. Footage taken on a business owner's CCTV showed a man pull out a machete from his rucksack and […]

Man claiming to have a suicide bomb on Santa Monica pier Ferris wheel is yanked down by cops after he sparked an evacuation and left families with kids stranded in mid-air – as tensions are heightened in the wake of the Israel terror attack A man claiming to have a bomb climbed the Ferris wheel […]

Rishi Sunak blasts the BBC for refusing to call the Hamas murderers terrorists as ministers demand answers over the decision Sunak said ‘we should call it out for what it is’ in reference to the BBC’s coverage The BBC’s refusal to refer to Hamas murderers as terrorists was criticised by ministers today. Referring to the […]

More migrants land in Britain after crossing the Channel in small boats a day after a teenage refugee from Eritrea drowned when a dinghy carrying 60 people capsized – the fifth to die in northern France in three weeks A total of 25,382 people have made the crossing in 533 boats so far this year […]

Grandmother, 59, is hauled to court for breaking a box of £3 eggs ‘with intent’ during kitchen spat with her mother – costing taxpayers ‘£1,000’ A grandmother was hauled to court for breaking a box of £3 eggs – with intent. Prosecuting Alissa Ash, 59, over the kitchen tiff with her own mother is thought […]

Woman is forced to flee after huge swarm of ‘tens of thousands’ of ladybirds laid siege to her home Artist Margaret Yescombe said the ladybirds were worse than poisonous spiders  A woman said she was forced out of her home by a swarm of ladybirds laying siege to her house. Margaret Yescombe, 42, from Ickleton, […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The life of a whale is busy, with annual migrations from the poles to the tropics. But that doesn’t stop them from having a bit of fun, according to research, which found they like to play with seaweed […]