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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
A TERROR suspect wielding a black backpack has been shot and arrested in dramatic raids across Belgium as police continue operations in THREE countries to crack a HUGE terror network. Police said they have ’neutralised’ a person in Schaarbeek during raids which have been taking place since last night. Prosecutors...
A SHOCKED teaching assistant was sacked after the primary school she worked for discovered pictures of her modelling. Gemma Laird was fired after a week at Bloemfontein Primary School in Craghead, County Durham when snooping parents discovered photographs of her modelling underwear. The 21-year-old, who has a four-year-old...
RUSSIAN forces helped the Syrian army reclaim the ancient Palmyra Castle from the tentacles of the savage Islamic State. Just days after the vile Brussels attack, a joint military operation saw the ancient citadel liberated from ISIS militants – who were forced to retreat during the assault. The heinous jihadi cult was...