NIGEL Farage has likened the European Union to a “burning building” and urged the British public to dash to the “exit door”. The UKIP leader said: “The more I look at the EU — we’ve a currency crisis tearing north and south apart, a migrant crisis leading to walls being built in Austria...
When Madeline Stuart graced the New York Fashion Week runway in figure-hugging couture, she brought the fashion crowd to its feet. In that moment the 18-year-old model, who has Down syndrome, captured the hearts of people worldwide, but her own heart lies closer to home. On the same day she returned to her Queensland roots to...
Break for the Borders on a coach trip and find a side to the country that is very different to the tourist trail. ONE afternoon we’re in a stately home that once belonged to a very lucky boy. In 1848, when he was six months old, the Third Marquess of Bute inherited a fortune from his family’s coalmines, ironworks...
Donald Trump ran away with South Carolina. Hillary Clinton's strong organization and attention to local details staved off Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" in Nevada. And Jeb Bush dropped out. Trump has now won the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries against a fractured GOP field, while Sens. Ted...
Donald Trump did more than win his second easy victory in consecutive presidential primaries in South Carolina on Saturday. He advanced his takeover of the Republican Party. He proved that he can dominate a race in the Deep South. He vanquished the dynasty that ruled the GOP establishment for decades as Jeb Bush dropped his...
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Irish slave owner roots Andrew Shields was Michelle Obama’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather and his family was slave owners. Michelle Obama’s great-great-great-grandmother Melvinia was a slave who had children by Charles Shields, grandson of Andrew Shields, the Times...
A BUNGLING Army Air Corps crew who wrote off their £40million Apache helicopter may have lost focus after a visit from TV hardman Ross Kemp, according to an official report. The former EastEnders star was in a remote forward operating base in Helmand Province filming the second series of the award-winning Ross Kemp in...
A notorious Nazi, known as “Hitler’s favorite commando” and “the most dangerous man in Europe,” Otto Skorzeny lived a peaceful life in a mansion on a 160-acre farm in County Kildare 14 years after the end of World War II. Not an easy man to miss, Skorzeny stood 6 foot 4 inches tall and weighed...
US police have taken a man into custody after a series of apparently random shootings left six people dead in the Michigan town of Kalamazoo. Four people were killed at a restaurant and two at a car dealership, local media say. Three others were injured. The attacks are being linked to an earlier shooting at a car park...
According to Transparency International Somalia and North Korea are listed as the worst-performing countries when it comes to dealing with corruption. In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2015 published by Transparency International—an organization that tracks corrupt practices worldwide—both countries finished last...
Fiji’s South Pacific islands are in emergency lockdown, with all flights in and out of the country suspended, as hurricane force winds from Cyclone Winston batter the nation. The government has declared a 30-day state of natural disaster over the Category 5 cyclone, believed to be the strongest in history to hit the area....
German officials say they are ashamed after a video emerged which showed a mob shouting and blocking a bus of refugees, among who were women and crying children. The video has gone viral and has sparked a heated debate online. The video posted on Friday showed a group of men blocking a bus full of refugees in the town of...