Chinese flags defaced in Prague ahead of Xi visit
Chinese flags hoisted in the Czech Republic ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping have been defaced. Dozens of the flags hung in the capital Prague were "spattered with a black substance overnight", a police spokesman said. The Chinese leader is due to arrive on Monday for a two-day visit before going to...
US Election 2016: Sanders battles to claw back Clinton
Bernie Sanders will try to claw back Hillary Clinton's lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency on Saturday in caucus votes in Washington state, Hawaii and Alaska. Mr Sanders remains a dogged pursuer but Mrs Clinton has 1,691 of the 2,383 delegates needed to win, AP reports. He is still...
When do clocks go forward and when is the first day of spring?
THE mornings are lighter, the weather is warmer and the daffodils have come out. But when does spring officially start? When do the clocks go forward? When do the clocks go forward? Britain's clocks will go forward at 1am on the last Sunday of this month, tomorrow. The changing of the clocks means an hour less in bed. It...
Pay rise BONANZA on its way for 30 MILLION who will benefit in taxes windfall
MILLIONS of Britons are in line for an Easter bonanza as the Chancellor delivers a windfall on pay, tax and savings. George Osborne will this week keep his pledge to give Britain a pay rise with the introduction of the National Living Wage set to benefit more than 2.7 million low income workers. Tax on savings will also be...
World Twenty20 2016: England hold on to reach semi-finals
England 171-4 (20 overs): Buttler 66* (37), Roy 42 (39) Sri Lanka 161-8 (20 overs): Mathews 73* (53), Jordan 4-28 England won by 10 runs England held on to reach the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 with a 10-run win over Sri Lanka in Delhi. Sri Lanka looked beaten after they were reduced to 15-4 in reply to England's...
Surrounded special forces hero blows up ISIS jihadis after calling in airstrike on HIMSELF
A HERO special forces officer took out a group of murderous Islamic State (ISIS) jihadis who had pinned him down by calling in an airstrike on HIMSELF, it emerged today. A HERO special forces officer took out a group of murderous Islamic State (ISIS) jihadis who had pinned him down by calling in an airstrike on HIMSELF, it...
Business leaders want out of EU: 250 top bosses back vote to break free from Brussels
CAMPAIGNERS for Britain to quit the EU were given another massive boost last night when 250 business leaders and entrepreneurs joined the anti-Brussels referendum surge. Tim Martin, chairman of the pub chain JD Wetherspoons, Carphone Warehouse founder David Ross and Martin Bellamy, chief executive of the Salamanca Group...
Netherlands 2-3 France
The Netherlands' home friendly against France was stopped after 14 minutes for a minute's applause to remember Dutch great Johan Cruyff. Former Ajax and Barcelona star Cruyff, who famously wore the number 14 shirt, died of cancer aged 68 on Thursday. A minute's silence for the former Dutch captain and coach was...
Brussels attacks: Paris attack suspect Abdeslam goes silent
Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam refused to speak when asked about Tuesday's attacks in Brussels, Belgian prosecutors say. They said that Abdeslam, arrested last week in Brussels and initially cooperative, had "exercised his right to silence" and said nothing when interviewed after Tuesday's bombings. He...
19 stars that have changed beyond recognition (Photo)
Whoever you may be: a celebrity or a common man, the years take their toll. Wrong mode of the day, harmful food, birth, lack of sleep — all this is fraught with overweight. Vince Vaughn in 1996 and in 2015 Mariah Carey in 1997 and in 2012 Laurence Fishburne in 1999 and 2012 Alec Baldwin in 1994 and in...
Former Big Brother contestant and Playboy model turns her attention to politics
Serbian TV host Soraja Vucelic, previously linked to footballer Neymar, wants to set up her own political party A former reality TV star and Playboy model has announced she wants to set up her own political party. Soraja Vucelic, 31, who hosts the Serbian version of Wheel of Fortune, says she wants to add some spice to the...
A young Joseph Stalin before the USSR
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...