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...
Life is hard enough, with plenty of jagged edges and pointy bits. Why not coat it with a glaze of politeness and humility? Every August my family embarks on that great American ritual: the road trip. And we always head north. Canada may not be the most exotic of destinations, but sometimes, exotic is overrated. Canada tempts us...
This extremely conservative country was once home to the world’s first sex treatise and the erotic art on display is perhaps more shocking now than when it was created. In December 2013, India’s LGBT community suffered a severe setback as the country’s Supreme Court ruled homosexuality to be a criminal...
Police in the Cape Verde islands off northwest Africa say they have found the bodies of 11 people, including eight soldiers, at a military barracks. The authorities say they believe a disgruntled missing soldier was behind the killings. A government statement said the deaths were not an attempted coup or connected to the drugs...
Donald Trump has won presidential primaries in all five US states that voted on Tuesday, while Hillary Clinton triumphed in four out of five. Mr Trump called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The results bring him closer to...