MILLIONS of people across the globe have had their private details stolen by hackers. But worried users of LinkedIn, which admitted this week criminal gangs had stolen the password and email combinations for 164 million of its customers, can visit www.haveibeenpwned.com to check whether they are at risk. By simply...
Brazilian police are hunting more than 30 men suspected of raping a teenage girl in Rio de Janeiro, and of putting video of the attack on social media. The girl, 16, believes she was doped after going to her boyfriend's house on Saturday and says she woke up in a different house, surrounded by the men. Arrest warrants have...
Turkey has hit out at the US over images said to show US special forces in Syria wearing insignia of Kurdish militia, during joint operations against so-called Islamic State (IS). Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the US "two-faced" and said the practice was "unacceptable". The images appear...
Lawyers for France's football manager Didier Deschamps say he will sue Eric Cantona for suggesting his Euro 2016 squad selection was racially motivated. Cantona said on Thursday that Deschamps intentionally left two players of African origin, Karim Benzema and Hatem Ben Arfa, out of the squad. "Benzema is a great...
Olympic chiefs have announced 23 competitors at the London 2012 Games have failed retrospective doping tests. Those athletes are from five different sports and six different countries. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) retested 454 selected doping samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing and a further 265 from London...
A PASSENGER plane on its way to London from Istanbul was diverted and made an emergency landing amid fears an unclaimed mobile phone posed a terror threat. The Turkish Airlines flight TK1979 landed at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport after cabin crew found the phone mid-air. Concerned staff asked the owner to claim the phone...
A top cyber-security firm is investigating whether North Korea could be linked to attacks on banks in recent months. Symantec said it had evidence that the same group attempted to steal money from a bank in the Philippines, one in Vietnam and Bangladesh's central bank. It also said the rare malware deployed was similar to...
BORIS Johnson has urged top Eurocrat Jean-Claude Juncker to visit Britain to see how it has been "damaged" by the EU. Earlier this week Juncker invited Brexit campaigner Johnson to come to Brussels following a string of anti-EU remarks. Juncker claimed Johnson's frequent attacks on the bloc – including a...
The US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party's presidential nomination. In North Dakota on Thursday, he thanked 15 unbound delegates from the state who he said "got us right over the top". He defeated 16 other Republican contenders and...
After the rumors about Angelina Jolie dying soon went viral last week, it was sad news for everyone who thought they were going to be losing one of their favorite stars. Fortunately, the good news is that these rumors were far from reality as one of Hollywood’s all-time favorite is only having temporary health...
BRAZEN Eurocrats are set to reveal plans for an EU army the day after next month's referendum, it has been reported. They are believed to have been working on plans foreseeing "new European military structures" since late 2014. But the document will not be unveiled until a meeting of European leaders on June 28,...
Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy's coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles (65km) off the coast as survivors clung to the hull or swam. The Italian navy...