Volkswagen will pay "substantial compensation" and buy back cars in US as part of a deal to settle the diesel emissions scandal. The details were announced in a California court after a federal judge gave VW and regulators a deadline to agree a fix for the cars. Last year, US regulators discovered that VW cars were...
You would think that upon reaching the age of 90 on Thursday, Queen Elizabeth II would sit back and put her feet up in her castle with a cuppa and a corgi. But not this nonagenarian sovereign. The queen, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, who turns 95 in June, will be working on her birthday, just as she has worked on...
WORLD ON THE EDGE: Kim Jong-un is preparing ANOTHER nuclear test, satellite images show Photographs from space show tunnel excavation at the country’s main nuclear test site might have resumed as despot Kim Jong-un could be set to unleash his latest statement of intent. Pyongyang carried out a Hydrogen bomb test in...
BARACK Obama is set to announce his support for Britain staying in the European Union when he arrives in this week. The White House has suggested the President will set out his support for David Cameron’s ‘In’ campaign. The pair will hold a joint press conference on Friday where Mr Obama is expected to give...
THE Saudi government may have been linked to the planning of the September 11 attacks, according to sensational new evidence. The possibility of Saudi involvement in the bloody terror attacks on New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington DC could confirm long-held suspicions. And it has now emerged that...
Japanese officials have raided an office of Mitsubishi Motors following the revelation that the carmaker had falsified its fuel economy data. The officials searched its plant in the central Japanese city of Okazaki. Mitsubishi has admitted that employees altered data to flatter mileage rates on more than 600,000 vehicles. A...
KREMLIN officials have accused the US of intimidation after an American missile destroyer sailed close to the Russian border as tensions between the superpowers reach boiling point. Furious Moscow envoy Alexander Grushko used a NATO meeting to warn that Moscow will use “all necessary measures” against the US...
The Queen has been "a rock of strength for our nation" and the Commonwealth, Prime Minister David Cameron has said in a tribute to mark her 90th birthday. The Prince of Wales has recorded a special radio broadcast for the day, in which he reads an edited passage from William Shakespeare's Henry VIII....
More than two billion people live in parts of the world where the Zika virus can spread, detailed maps published in the journal eLife show. The Zika virus, which is spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, triggered a global health emergency this year. Last week the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the...
On this fascinating South Pacific island, all 62 residents are related, everyone shares the same surname and can trace their lineage back to one British man. We saw the foam before we heard the breaking waves. My husband Rob and I squinted through the morning sun, trying to pick out the low-lying shoreline of the Palmerston...
A large explosion at an oil facility in the south-east Mexican state of Veracruz has killed at least three people and injured 136 more. The blast hit a facility owned by Mexico's state oil company, Pemex, in the port city of Coatzacoalcos. Hundreds of people have been evacuated and schools closed. Footage showed a large...
The singer Glucose continues to maintain interest around her brest. So, fans once again suspected the star in plastic surgery to increase her boobs. In particular, Glucosa came in a candid dress with transparent top ala "kitchen curtain" to the ceremony "Russia's Most Stylish 2016". Some...