LONDON (Reuters) – Former Brexit minister Dominic Raab said he would vote for the government’s Withdrawal Agreement on Friday to avoid the risk of Britain having to seek a longer delay to its exit from the European Union. The government is putting a stripped-down version of its twice-defeated Brexit divorce deal to a vote in […]

Shootings are down city-wide, but even more so in neighbourhoods canvassed by Violence Interrupters, a community-based programme being replicated nationwide, resulting in safer streets. Mass shootings in the US have attracted headlines worldwide and prompted a national debate about gun control, but the crime rate in New York is at a 70-year low. Police say […]

Ed Sheeran’s pond at Suffolk estate is NOT a swimming pool say council despite complaints from neighbours who said it had ‘steps, a handrail and jetty’ for a ‘wild lifestyle rather than wildlife’ Sheeran, 28, angered neighbours who claimed he had built a swimming pool He was given permission for the pond in 2016 providing […]

Sixties pop star PJ Proby’s entire farewell tour is cancelled after the 80-year-old boasted of his sick lust for under-age girls as young as twelve Sixties pop star PJ Proby has been forced to cancel his entire farewell tour  Married three times to girls aged 16, 17 and 21 and says he wants to ‘raise’ […]

People listen during a National Remembrance Service in Hagley Park for the victims of the March 15 mosques terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) A crowd of 20,000 people attended a national memorial service in New Zealand Friday to remember the victims of the Christchurch terror attack. During the […]

Under a new law, set to take effect next month, people in the UK wishing to watch any kind of porn online will need to prove their age beforehand. Proof of age will be required in the form of either a driving licence or a new age verification card. Stuart Lawley, CEO of AVSecure, says: […]

ALGIERS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of chanting, banner-waving protesters marched though Algiers for the sixth Friday in succession to demand the removal of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika days after the country’s powerful military called for him to step down. Dancing, blowing horns and shouting freedom slogans, some demonstrators also called for the entire political elite […]

Pictures from the scene show the large grassy area near the London Eye cordoned off, with cops standing guard.  Witnesses tweeted that Sea Life is also on lock-down.  Police told Daily Star Online they had received reports of a suspcicious package, but the incident had now been “stood down”. It is expected that the attractions […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s parliament approved on Friday a bill to protect borrowers from foreclosures on their primary homes after tense negotiations with the country’s international creditors. The new framework, part of measures to expedite a clean up of bank balance sheets, was approved by a majority of lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament. It replaces […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Two suspects who pleaded guilty to charges of corruption in the sale of Eurofighter jets to Austria were handed suspended jail terms by a Munich court, prosecutors in the city said on Friday. They were sentenced on charges of embezzlement and aiding and abetting embezzlement, a spokeswoman said, adding that proceedings against […]