Apple has invested $1bn (£693m) in Didi Chuxing, the car-hailing app that has a greater market share than US rival Uber in China. Tim Cook, chief executive, said that the move would help Apple to better understand the Chinese market. Didi Chuxing, previously known as Didi Kuaidi, said it represented the single largest...
CRACKPOT dictator Kim Jung-un has released rare portraits of himself and his top officials — including one thought to have been executed months ago. The seemingly unedited image shows the ruthless despot grinning in an official portrait for the first time. North Korea expert at Seoul National University Chang Yong Seok...
A CLEANER is alleged to have paid dozens of boys as young as eight 35p so that he could rape them in the toilets of a refugee camp. This comes despite German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying she was “very impressed” by the camp which houses 14,000 refugees. The camp employee allegedly managed to sexually assault at...
DEBRIS found washed up in South Africa and Mauritius is almost certainly from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Malaysian transport ministry has revealed. The MH370 flight had 239 passengers and crew on board and took off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing. It disappeared from radar on March 8 2014 and is presumed to have...
THIS shocking video shows the moment a group of police officers restrained a suspected drug user who later died at the scene. Police watchdogs have now launched an investigation after the two-minute- long video emerged, which appears to show the male suspect being pinned to the ground with his head pushed to the pavement....
BRITISH troops who say they were left with serious mental health side effects after taking a controversial anti-malaria drug are taking legal action against the Ministry of Defence. The group of armed forces veterans say they have suffered hallucinations, severe depression, sleep deprivation and anxiety as a result of the...
A FORMER erotic actress was forcibly retrained on a flight after flying into a drunken rage when refused alcohol Harlee McBride, married to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actor Richard Belzer, was fined £19,700 after her sozzled antics. McBride, 67, was travelling on an flight from New York to France, when...
The couple already have six children together, three of whom are adopted, but it seems they're already looking for a bigger family Tinseltown's first family could be expanding their brood with their seventh child, reports suggest. Angelina and Brad are said to have adopted a Cambodian baby boy from the slums of Siem...
America's latest addition to its Ballistic Missile Defence System looks out of place surrounded by mile after mile of flat Romanian farmland. The building at Devesulu, which houses radar and 12 interceptor missile tubes, appears remarkably similar to the "sensors and shooters" that have already been placed on US...
The EU naval mission to tackle people smuggling in the central Mediterranean is failing to achieve its aims, a British parliamentary committee says. In a report, the House of Lords EU Committee says Operation Sophia does not "in any meaningful way" disrupt smugglers' boats. The destruction of wooden boats has...
In the week since Donald Trump effectively secured the Republican presidential nomination, a great deal of ink and airtime have been devoted to explaining why he will have a difficult time winning the presidency in the autumn. The Republican Party is too badly divided. His rhetoric is too incendiary. Republican voters may be...
Many people think the British capital’s heyday was in the past. But not only is it more exciting now than it’s ever been, it’s the most exciting city in the world, writes Dylan Jones. The publishing world has become overrun by books celebrating particular points in time. A few years ago, Bill Bryson wrote an...