Austria has passed a controversial new law that restricts the right of asylum and allows most claimants to be rejected directly at the border. Rights groups say the law undermines the principle of protection from war and persecution. It comes days after Austria's far-right came top in the first round of a presidential...
All the signs are that as the partial truce in Syria fails and the peace talks falter, the Russian military and its Syrian allies are gearing up for a new offensive in and around Aleppo. Last week, the Pentagon said forces loyal to the Syrian government were beginning "to mass and concentrate combat power around...
Hillary Clinton may have delivered a knockout blow. Donald Trump threatens to put the #NeverTrump movement on the ropes. The brawl that's been the 2016 presidential campaign is entering its final round, and it looks increasingly like we'll know the two contenders who will face off in the autumn title bout. Here are four...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama is backing the campaign for the UK to stay in Europe because the European Union (EU) is just a "dry run" at a global Government, a conspiracy theorist has extraordinarily claimed. David Icke, Britian's unofficial most well-know conspiracist, said in a video rant that he predicted in the...
FAMILIES clapped, cried and cheered as the jury in the Hillsborough inquests found 96 people were unlawfully killed on the day of the football disaster. The jury delivered their verdicts on the 14 questions concerning the tragedy of April 15 1989, which saw dozens of Liverpool fans killed in the UK’s worst sporting...
A SERIAL sex attacker who had only come to the UK from Algeria months before targeted young women walking home alone after dark in a wealthy suburb. Mehdi Midani attacked eight young women in the south London suburbs of Clapham and Brixton in just 10 days last October, including one on Halloween. The 28 year old followed some...
THE campaign for Britain to cut ties with Brussels has edged into a two-point lead in the EU referendum battle, a dramatic opinion poll has revealed. Pollsters ICM found that 46 per cent of those quizzed want the UK to leave while 44 per cent want to stay. The result suggests that Barack Obama’s call for the UK to stay in...
DEBT-ridden Greece is dangerously close to running out of cash and plunging the eurozone into a fresh crisis. Athens desperately needs £4BILLION worth of aid from creditors but is refusing to make any further cutbacks to government spending. The payment is part of a third bailout agreed for Greece last summer as the...
AT least £650million of British taxpayers’ cash has been handed to Brussels in fines for misspending European Union grants. Last night MPs warned that ministers have only just woken up to the scandal. Civil servants had made the problem worse by complicating bureaucratic EU schemes for areas like farm subsidies...
Venezuela's government has imposed a two-day working week for public sector workers as a temporary measure to help it overcome a serious energy crisis. Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz announced that civil servants should turn up for work only on Mondays and Tuesdays until the crisis was over. Venezuela is facing a major...
Up to $800m (£550m) in cash held by so-called Islamic State (IS) has been destroyed in air strikes, a US military official says. Maj Gen Peter Gersten, who is based in Baghdad, said the US had repeatedly targeted stores of the group's funds. The blow to the group's financing has contributed to a 90% jump in...
Joe Hart kept Manchester City's hopes of reaching their first Champions League final alive with two brilliant late saves that ensured their semi-final first leg with Real Madrid finished goalless. With star striker Cristiano Ronaldo missing because of a thigh injury, a cautious Real side offered little goal threat until the...