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Woman shot as extra officers deployed to investigate FOUR attacks in UK county town
A WOMAN is in hospital after a spate of shootings in an historic British county, last night. Police have deployed extra officers to Bedford after the separate attacks took place just hours apart. One woman was shot in the arm after shots were fired at at a property in Faraday Square at around 10pm. She was taken to...
Army officer reveals how obsession with WMD led to Iraq blunder
BRITISH officials were under so much pressure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that they embarrassed their US colleagues by insisting that medical chemicals were deadly weapons of war. Lieutenant Colonel David Reynolds, of the Parachute Regiment, was in Afghanistan in 2002 helping the hunt for Osama Bin Laden when he...
Dallas shooting: Police give all clear after security scare
Dallas police have given the all clear, hours after security levels were raised at their headquarters in the city. They said they had received an anonymous threat, two days after the killing of five police officers. A nearby parking lot was searched for a "suspicious person" but no-one was found. SWAT officers were...
Nigel Farage backs Andrea Leadsom for leader and slams ‘cold’ May
NIGEL Farage has endorsed Andrea Leadsom to become Tory leader, saying she has the "guts" to take on Brussels. He also slated frontrunner Theresa May as “cold” and lacking courage. This comes as pressure group Leave.EU, owned by Ukip donor Arron Banks, backed Mrs Leadsom to take over at Number 10. The...
US police shootings: Protests spread with dozens of arrests
Protests continue to spread across US cities against the killing of black men by police, following recent deaths in Minnesota and Louisiana. Roads were blocked and missiles thrown in Minnesota, while armed New Black Panther Party members confronted police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dozens of arrests have been made but the...
Simple, fruity and attractive: The best cheap wines
OUR expert picks brilliant bottles that are easy on the palate and the wallet. One of the best pieces of news in the world of wine is that cheap bottles have never been so good. Twenty years back, cheap wine was hard to swallow, and a trawl through the bottom shelves of the supermarket could yield some horror bottles. But times...
The X Factor 2016: Rylan unites with Nicole Scherzinger and Matt Edmondson on first day
THE X FACTOR'S most controversial round has been filming in London today with new Xtra Factor double-act Rylan Clark-Neal and Matt Edmondson in attendance. The pair, who have a vast difference in height, replace Melvin Odoom and Rochelle Humes as the hosts of ITV2's spin-off programme and were hard at work for the Six...
Australia PM Turnbull’s conservatives win tight election
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared victory for his conservative coalition in last week's closely fought general election. His comments came after opposition Labor Leader Bill Shorten conceded defeat and congratulated him. Votes are still being counted, but the Liberal-National coalition is expected...
John Prescott: Ex-deputy PM says Iraq War was illegal
John Prescott, who was deputy prime minister when Britain went to war with Iraq in 2003, says the invasion by UK and US forces was "illegal". Writing in the Sunday Mirror, he said he would live with the "catastrophic decision" for the rest of his life. Lord Prescott said he now agreed "with great...
Georgia Set to Execute Sixth Inmate This Year
An execution scheduled for Thursday would be the sixth in Georgia this year — the most executions carried out by the state in a calendar year since the death penalty was reinstated four decades ago. John Wayne Conner, 60, is scheduled to die by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of...
South Sudan clashes ‘leave dozens dead’ in Juba
Dozens of people have been killed by clashes in South Sudan's capital Juba, military, medical and journalistic sources have said. Gunfire broke out on Friday evening near the state house where President Salva Kiir was meeting his sometime rival, Vice-President Riek Machar. Estimates of the death toll vary, but most accounts...
Bombing at Turkey police station kills 3, agency reports
At least three people were killed and seven others were injured in a car bombing at a police station in southeastern Turkey Saturday, according to state-run news agency Anadolu. A security source and local officials said the blast in Mardin was the work of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Anadolu reported. "Mardin...