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...
MPs last night blamed "appalling" blunders by police and spies for the loss of potentially vital forensic evidence. They reportedly failed to complete major paperwork – meaning the biometric data could only be held for six months. The revelation comes at a time when Britain is on a high terror alert following...
The UK is set to send a second Royal Navy ship to the Mediterranean to help tackle people trafficking and arms smuggling in Libya, officials say. David Cameron told the G7 summit in Japan that the UK was ready to take an "active leadership role" in helping Libya deal with trafficking. The UK currently has one survey...
US President Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima on Friday, where the US dropped the world's first nuclear bomb. The visit, after the G7 summit, will be the first to the Japanese city by a serving US president. Mr Obama has said he will not be issuing an apology for the nuclear attack, but will honour all those who died in...
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is about to die. It is reported National Enquirer magazine published photos of skinny Jolie on the cover, according to Lux is . “Dying Angie loses battle 79 pounds and was hospitalized.”, – Reads the headline on the cover. According to the tabloid, the actress was urgently...
Queen Elizabeth II couldn't contain her excitement as she attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show, with the monarch flashing a smile and laughing with glee as her horse won big during the event. After her beloved horse, Barber's Shop, won the the Tattersalls & RoR Thoroughbred Ridden Championship at Windsor Castle...
Experts following the disappearance of MH370 say it is likely that a new piece of debris found on a Mozambique beach came from the missing plane. A reader contacted the BBC on Thursday to say he recently found the fragment on the Macaneta peninsula. The authorities have been notified. The piece must be examined by the official...
More than 300 passengers and crew were evacuated from a Korean Air plane in Tokyo, Japan after a fire broke out in its left engine. Flight 2708 was preparing to take off from Haneda airport en route to Seoul on Friday morning, said officials. The engine was sprayed with foam by fire crews on the runway, which was temporarily...
A BRAVE young woman who fought Islamic State on the frontline for 12 months has boasted the jihadists are "easy to kill". Blonde politics student Joanna Palani fled the safety of her home to help blitz depraved ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria. The 23-year-old, from Denmark, revealed she went to fight with Kurds...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mount Athos in Greece to mark the 1,000-year presence of Russian Orthodox monks there. The Mount — actually a 335 sq km (130 sq mile) peninsula — may be the largest area in the world from which women, and female animals, are banned. Andy Walker asks why the ban exists. If...
China has warned the Group of Seven (G-7) countries against holding talks that it argues could worsen tensions in the South China Sea. Maritime disputes are one of a host of issues that leaders of the seven countries are expected to discuss during their meetings in Tokyo this week. U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at the...