EMBATTLED Matt Hancock dramatically broke his silence today over 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages he sent to ministers and officials during the pandemic. The ex-Health Secretary slammed the huge data dump as a "massive betrayal". And he hit back at accusations he sent "menacing messages" to Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke a non-disclosure agreement to […]

Dan Walker thanks ‘the magic of make-up and prescription drugs’ as Channel 5 News star hosts first major event since horror bike crash Broadcaster showed off his remarkable recovery in a video at awards ceremony The star was knocked off his bike by a car on a roundabout in Sheffield last week  Dan Walker hailed […]

It turns out, as some commuters have long suspected, that our city’s suburban train network is a tale of two halves: the haves and the have-nots. There is likely to be a timetable tipping point at which some would-be train travellers opt out.Credit:Simon Schluter Depending on where you live and what time of day you […]

A shot over China’s bows? Incredible moment Air Force breaks ship IN HALF with a single 2,000 pound bomb dropped by F-15E Strike Eagle with ‘torpedo-like’ accuracy The bomb, a JDAM, tested in the video  is called the Quicksink because of the rate at which it sinks ships  The JDAM is a relatively inexpensive way […]

Rio Tinto will gift a mobile worker camp to the West Australian government as payment and penance for losing a minuscule radioactive capsule along an 1800-kilometre-long stretch of road through the state’s outback. The mining company will deliver and then install the 40-person donga camp near Fitzroy Crossing, where it will be used in the […]

THOUSANDS of teachers across the country will today strike again amid a bitter dispute over pay and conditions. For the past two days school staff have been walking out, causing chaos for parents up and down the country. They will be taking industrial action for a total of three days this week. Today, union members in […]

Moment very clever orangutan uses long piece of brown cardboard to fish one-year-old boy’s bottle out of pond in its enclosure after he drops it A viral TikTok video showed an orangutan cleverly grab a toddler’s bottle  CaShawna Wright recalled her son’s excitement to seeing the animal at the zoo After the toddler tossed his […]

CHILLING CCTV footage captured the moment two trains catastrophically collided in Greece, killing at least 38 people. A huge fireball exploded in the night sky as a 1,300C blaze began to erupt while passengers were trapped in the wreckage. Survivors told of the "ten seconds of terror" as a passenger express slammed head-on into a […]

Las Vegas: Four family members from Victoria who were injured during a crash-landing of a sightseeing helicopter in southern Nevada in December have filed a lawsuit in the US seeking more than $US400,000 ($580,000) in damages from the tour operator. Cedomir Rakic and Amy Rakic and their children, ages 19 and 17, allege in the […]

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This self-harming tax rise shames the Chancellor During the Tory leadership race in the summer, one candidate proposed a radical plan to turbocharge the economy: Slash corporation tax to 15 per cent. ‘We need to start up Britain,’ he said. ‘That means sending a signal that we’re going to be the most […]