A SENIOR Chinese police chief sentenced to death for corruption also may have also been wiretapping Xi Jinping, it has been claimed. The sentencing of Sun Lijun, 53, is widely seen as a sending a message to opponents by a "paranoid" Xi as he prepares to be anointed China’s leader for life. The 20th congress […]

Obama bashes woke Dems! Former president complains Democrats are BUZZKILLS – who make people ‘walk on eggshells’ ahead of midterm election campaign Former President Barack Obama took some shots at his fellow Democrats, calling them ‘buzzkills’ and lamenting cancel culture in an interview Friday  Obama, speaking to four of his former employees on the Pod […]

Kylie Moore-Gilbert watched the prison that held her for 804 days on trumped-up espionage charges become the burning epicentre of Iran’s civil unrest on Sunday, gripped by concern for her former inmates and with the growing sense that Iran was in the early throes of a revolution. Evin prison holds many of Iran’s political and […]

New York: A man police described as a “potential serial killer” who terrorised residents in California’s Central Valley in a string of fatal shootings was arrested in Stockton while he was “out hunting” for more victims, authorities said. The man, Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested after an investigation that connected five fatal shootings across Stockton […]

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California was arrested before dawn Saturday as he drove through the streets of Stockton, armed with a handgun and possibly searching for another victim, police said. Investigators began watching the suspect after receiving […]

‘I can’t go back to prison’: Leah Croucher’s murder suspect made a desperate phone call to a friend while on the run from police over sex attack Prime suspect Neil Maxwell, 49, killed himself two months after Leah vanished He was the only person with a key to the house where remains were found  While […]

THE Home Secretary has vowed to crack down on "monstrously selfish" eco-protesters who have been causing mayhem and risking lives by blocking roads. Suella Braverman has announced plans are in place in a bid to stop climate activists holding the public "to ransom". The Home Secretary said police will be given new powers to ensure […]

US diplomats learn our ways… from Gogglebox: Channel 4 show is used as an unofficial training tool to better understand British humour, accents and attitudes US embassy staff in Nine Elms, London, have been advised to watch Gogglebox  It is hoped it will help diplomats better understand the UK and British people Staffers were told […]

New York: They made him at night, in the quiet hours after the bakery had closed. Together they worked, mother and daughter, mixing the materials that would give form to their creation: flour, water and sugar. Slowly, he began to emerge as each feature was sculpted and placed into the oven to bake. First came […]

Former President Barack Obama is heading to Wisconsin later this month to help boost Senate candidate Mandela Barnes, a Democrat challenging GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, as well Gov. Tony Evers’ re-election bid. The joint event, set for Oct. 29 in Milwaukee, will also promote other Democrats on the November ballot, including Attorney General Josh Kaul […]