Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Washington: US House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy faced a direct threat to his leadership when hardline fellow Republican representative Matt Gaetz called for a vote to oust him, injecting an additional element of chaos into Congress. Gaetz, […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Key points The Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens, which surround the Burnham Beeches property, were created between 1929 and 1939 by Nicholas who made his fortune establishing the aspirin patent, Aspro in 1915. In 1935  Australian Home Beautiful proclaimed […]

AT least 13 people have been killed after a fire broke out in a busy nightclub in Spain this morning. Firefighters are still searching for more victims in the smouldering ruins of the venue in the southeastern city of Murcia. The inferno broke out this morning at around 6am and ripped through the Fonda nightclub, […]

A GARDENING expert has issued an urgent warning over a "highly invasive" plant that can punch through your driveway and cost you thousands. Bamboo has been a hugely popular screening plant over the years, but frequently people aren't aware of its potential to cause damage. Bamboo is a non-native plant species that can grow and […]

A SECOND pub just five miles from the Crooked House has gone up in flames as cops probe the blaze. Horror pics show the charred remains of Wolverhampton's Greyhound and Punchbowl pub, which is thought to have been set alight. Fire crews raced to the pub – which has bendy exterior beams – just before 4am […]

COPS are urgently hunting for a man after a woman was allegedly raped in a park. The horror was said to have unfolded around 4.30am yesterday in Middlesborough's Cannon Park. The woman in her 30s was said to have been attacked by a black man who she claimed spoke a foreign language and was wearing […]

THE Royal Family’s official website was offline today after it was said to be “attacked” by Russian hackers. The site royal.uk displayed an error message for around two hours this morning following “a denial of service attack”. It comes after Queen Elizabeth stepped up defences against hackers after learning the Royal Family were a high-profile […]

ONLINE porn is inspiring kids to become transgender, a rising star Tory MP said today. Miriam Cates told a Tory Conference fringe event on safeguarding that "trans porn" is leading children into the "trans arena". The MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge said: "I think the average age that a child sees extreme pornography is 13 […]

A GIANT chainsaw has been found in the Sycamore Gap tree probe as cops searched the barn of a former lumberjack. Police concluded their two-day search at Walter Renwick's isolated Plankey Mill farm in Northumberland, just eight miles away from where the UK's most famous tree had proudly stood. And the chainsaw – recovered from an outbuilding at […]