FIREBRAND Labour MP Dennis Skinner was today booted out the House of Commons for branding the Prime Minister ‘dodgy Dave’. The 84-year-old was ordered to leave the chamber as David Cameron faced a grilling from MPs over the so-called ‘Panama Papers‘ scandal. Ex-miner Mr Skinner, who has been MP for...
A MAN wielding a samurai sword was wrestled to the ground by police after reportedly stabbing himself. Horrified shoppers in Coventry city centre looked on as a man dressed only in a pair of white trousers brandished the weapon before turning it on himself. Officers rushed to the scene on the busy high street after receiving...
Chancellor George Osborne and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have become the latest senior British politicians to publish details of their tax returns. Mr Osborne paid £72,210 in tax in 2014-5 on £198,738 in earnings, comprising his official salary, rental income and share dividends from his family firm. The Labour...
RESCUE workers are sifting through a Hindu temple in southern India where at least 110 people died when a fireworks display — an unauthorised pyrotechnic display that went horribly wrong — swept through a temple packed with thousands for a religious festival. The death toll so far from the pre-dawn fire at the...
ZAPORIZHIA, UKRAINE As we slid into a taxi on a bone-chilling afternoon, the driver delivered the news: “Lenin kaput,” he said with a wide grin. “You want to have a look?” We rushed to a square on the Dnieper River where, for days, workers braved freezing winds to bring down a last vestige of Communist...
AUSTIN, Ind. — From the start of the HIV outbreak here, health officials emphasized that nothing set Scott County apart from many other rural communities where opioid drug use had become an epidemic. This could happen anywhere, people were told. Many people here had viewed HIV as a big-city disease, something that might...
EUROPE'S elite tonight dropped all pretence of respecting democracy by plotting to grant visa-free travel to 45 million Ukrainians in direct defiance of the Dutch referendum result. Brussels bureaucrats have strongly indicated they will simply ride roughshod over the voice of an entire nation in their grasping bid to secure...
The media are talking about third pregnancy of Alsou. The reason for the rumors became noticeably rounded tummy of singer in one of last photos....
A SECRET plan devised by Brussels could see countries in the European Union take on 250,000 migrants from Turkey every single year. EU bureaucrats have already made a £6billion agreement with Ankara to take one Syrian migrant for every migrant sent to Turkey. But the latest deal could see migrants flown directly from...
THE European Union is planning a power grab for the UK welfare state in a bid to take control of pensions, benefits and the minimum wage. Senior MEPs fear Brussels is planning a “social union” but legislation is being held back until after June’s referendum. Already plans for a common European unemonth by...
An Australian prisoner who supports the so-called Islamic State has allegedly used a knife to carve a slogan on to his cellmate's head. Reports said the Islamic State mantra "e4e", standing for "an eye for an eye", was carved into man's head. An inquiry will examine how the high-risk attacker, 18,...
Danny Willett claimed a shock Masters win with a superb five-under-par 67 as 2015 champion Jordan Spieth crumbled during a thrilling final round. Englishman Willett, 28, won his first major by three shots to become the first British victor in 20 years. Overnight leader Spieth, 22, led by five shots as he approached the 10th at...