In the heat of a Kazakhstan night, we stood 900m (2,952ft) from the launchpad where a Soyuz rocket readied for take-off.  I couldn’t help thinking what the men inside the capsule at the top were going through – I know my heart was beating a little faster. What if something went wrong in front of […]

British Airways suspends flights to Cairo on security grounds British Airways and Lufthansa abruptly suspended flights to Cairo from Saturday over security concerns, but giving no details about what may have prompted the move. “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days […]

A British oil tanker was “steered” towards Iranian waters by false GPS co-ordinates sent by Russian spy technology, it is now feared. Security sources say GCHQ and MI6 are investigating whether Iranian intelligence transmitted spoof signals to the skipper of the Stena Impero. The tanker was seized on Friday and dramatic footage released on Saturday […]

Kitesurfer dies after being caught by freak gust of wind that sent him crashing into concrete beach wall Man was carried away in front of horrified onlookers by wind and landed on wall Was then dragged across rocks at Camber Sands near Rye, East Sussex, and died Coastguard was called to retrieve his body and police called […]

She really IS the king of the swingers! Baby gorilla shows off her moves in Frankfurt Zoo (though dad doesn’t look very impressed) Two-year-old baby gorilla Wela can be seen strutting her stuff as Dad watches  She points her finger to the sky and taps her foot as amused visitors look on    Photos were snapped by […]

OPP investigating suspicious death of woman in Orillia ORILLIA – Provincial police in Orillia say they are investigating the suspicious death of a local woman. Police and paramedics received a report early Friday morning about an injured person outside a city residence. A woman who was found at the scene was rushed to a local […]

GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – Britain denounced the Iranian seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a “hostile act” on Saturday, rejecting Tehran’s explanation that it had seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards posted a video online showing speedboats pulling up alongside the Stena Impero tanker, […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s protegee, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, has seen her public support dip since she took over as defense minister on Wednesday, an opinion poll showed on Saturday. In a poll pitting her against Robert Habeck, of the Greens, and Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats (SPD) as the choice for the […]

“Temperatures could reach 34C by Wednesday in parts of central, southern or eastern areas and heatwave thresholds are likely to be reached in some places.” Drivers are being warned of congestion on the roads with the mixture of heavy rain and the start of the school holidays. RAC’s Rod Dennis said: “As thousands of families […]

National Crime Agency seizes £4m of gold bars at Heathrow ‘sent by south American drugs cartel from Cayman Islands on way to Switzerland’ The gold was on its way to Switzerland from Cayman Islands when it was found It had previously arrived in the Caymans from Venezuela on a private jet    The gold is being treated […]