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Monkey steals camera during family selfie and flips up his middle finger

A family burst out laughing when they realised the monkey they posed for a selfie with had flipped the middle finger. While in Bali, the Hicks family, from Australia, visited the popular Ubud Monkey Forest where a local grabbed their phone for the holiday snap of a lifetime. Mum Judy, 37, dad Simon, 36, and […]

ISIS jihadi walks free from jail as judge says he’s of GOOD CHARACTER

Moudasser Taleb, was arrested at Sydney Airport in 2017, and found guilty in April of preparing to travel to Syria for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities. Mr Taleb was 22-years-old when he was detained at the airport in June 2017. At the time of his arrest he had no plane ticket and little […]

Turkey seeks jail terms for two Bloomberg reporters

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court has accepted an indictment from the country’s banking watchdog (BDDK) requesting a jail sentence for two Bloomberg reporters and 36 other people. The indictment, seen by Reuters, was in relation to a Bloomberg story published in August 2018. The article was about the effects of a sharp decline in […]

Cars plunge into river as bridge collapses in southern China

Two people are missing after a road bridge plunged into a river and sent two vehicles into the water in southern China. Heyuan city police said the 120-metre (390-foot) section collapsed early on Friday morning. China’s Xinhua News Agency said two nearby security guards rescued a 44-year-old man but two other people are still missing. […]

Dramatic moment police rescue kidnapped baby after 70mph car chase

The baby was snatched by James Dempsey, 35, from his Sutton Coldfield home on April 3. Following West Midlands police’s urgent appeal in tracing the baby, they received two reports of a possible sighting. At 9.30pm the following day, Dempsey led police on a 70mph chase before his Vauxhall Astra was intercepted in Bickenhill Lane […]

Summer holiday chaos to hit millions as 1 in 5 flights cancelled or delayed

At least 32,000 UK flights are expected to be disrupted over the six-week summer holiday, with 130,000 passengers expected to experience a flight cancellation, in additional to countless delays. Experts have revealed the flights industry is “in crisis” as Brit airlines struggle to get passengers from A to B in shocking figures released today. From […]

Ebola nurse, 43, gives birth to twins 5 years after contracting deadly disease

Pauline Cafferkey, 43, contracting the deadly disease while helping as an aid worker in Sierra Leone. The nurse from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, was first struck down with the disease in December 2014. She had just returned to the UK from West Africa where she was volunteering with Save the Children at an Ebola treatment centre. […]