Wipe out! Moment a teenager is engulfed by a huge wave as he poses on rocks at the Giant’s Causeway Conan Griffin, 18, was hit by a large wave in County Antrim, Northern Ireland His friend Kallum Clark, 18, filmed the fall and posted it on Twitter on Monday Conan suffered painful red burns after […]

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick claims he was RIGHT to approve £1bn housing development for Tory donor Richard Desmond at the centre of ‘cash-for-access’ row and blasts ‘extremely unfair’ critics Jenrick said ‘brownfield’ developments were needed to help UK’s housing crisis   He approved scheme just before a local development levy came into effect The decision saved […]

More than 400,000 people are waiting for new passports as reduced number of staff work through Covid backlog with some applicants waiting up to four months for new travel document Social distancing measures mean less staff members are at the Passport Office This has led to serious delays with a backlog of more than 400,000 […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. This was evident in a row over tax policy in 2017 which saw some countries in the EU revolt against the frugal nations.As some heads of state tried to push through a […]

US Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has said federal agents “will not retreat” in their efforts to protect government buildings in Portland. “If you are a violent rioter looking to inflict damage to federal property or law enforcement officers, you need to find another line of work,” he said. US President Donald Trump sent federal […]

A Toronto woman received probation, community service and a fine for throwing a chair from a high-rise balcony onto a highway in 2019. Marcella Zoia, 20, nicknamed “Chair Girl”, had pleaded guilty to a charge of mischief endangering life in November. Her dangerous prank was caught on camera and posted online, where it was viewed […]

President Trump said Tuesday that he wishes the best for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is jailed on charges she helped convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein procure underage girls. “I don’t know, I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly,” Trump said when asked whether he thinks she will use what she […]

‘Londongrad laundromat’: Oligarch allies of Vladimir Putin have used London to wash illicit Russian money, report warns Britain welcomed Putin’s cronies ‘with open arms’ because of the cash they brought with them, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said Oligarchs penetrated UK democracy by donating to political parties, it said Concluded Russian elites had made […]

Satellite images show water levels rising in reservoir of the nearly completed $4.6bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia’s prime minister said on Tuesday his country, Egypt, and Sudan reached a “major common understanding which paves the way for a breakthrough agreement” on a significant dam project that has led to sharp regional tensions and fears of […]

President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen has sued the US attorney general for an alleged ‘gag order’. Cohen said he was sent back to prison as retaliation for writing a tell-all book that reportedly details alleged racist comments made by the president. Cohen had been released in May from a three-year sentence for charges including […]