Lebanese security officials warned their leaders about the risks posed by chemicals stored in Beirut more than two weeks before the blast in the capital, it has been reported. Some 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were kept in the city’s port and caused a massive explosion that killed at least 163 people, injured 6,000 and destroyed 6,000 buildings on August […]

People are more likely to catch Covid-19 in areas with high air pollution because particulate matter could ‘carry’ the viruses, scientists claim Researchers claimed pollution plays a ‘direct role’ in the spread of Covid-19  They suggested the coronavirus is airborne, meaning it lingers in the air This is exacerbated by particulate matter (PM) which ‘carries’ it in the air They […]

POLICE have launched a desperate appeal for the parents of a young girl found wandering the streets alone in South London this afternoon. Officers were called to a residential street in Lewisham at 4.45pm after a member of the public found the little girl. Authorities are working to find her family, but so far they have not been located. The […]

A MASSIVE hunt is underway for a missing four-year-old boy after the unrecognisable body of his DJ mum was found in the wilderness. Rescue teams using tracker dogs and drones are racing against time to scour a 400-hectare area of remote woodland in Italy to find the young child named Gioele. The body of the woman, Viviana Parisi, 43, who […]

‘Did you read that?’ Embarrassing moment mother-in-law reads wife’s ‘dirty’ text message to her husband Rory Mellor, 26, was enjoying a quiet night in at his family home in Austin, Texas His wife Anna, 25, sent him a risqué text message during a game of cards  But it was intercepted by her exasperated mother-in-law Maurie Simons, 51 This is the […]

POLICE have shelved their investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence 27 years after the racially motivated killing. Detectives say they have no further lines of inquiry and the case has moved to an "inactive phase". The 18-year-old was killed in an unprovoked racist attack in Eltham, south east London, in 1993. He was stabbed to death as he waited […]

POLICE have uncovered the remains of a man who vanished from a hospital nearly 30 years ago. James Patterson was last seen on October 6, 1991, at Mid Ulster Hospital in Londonderry aged 54. Cops have now confirmed human remains pulled from the River Bann belong to the missing man. Police are not treating his death as suspicious. The body […]

A 107-year-old New Jersey grandmother who survived the Spanish flu a century ago is now a two-time pandemic survivor after beating COVID-19. Brooklyn native Anna Del Priore, who turns 108 next month, was diagnosed with the coronavirus in May and her granddaughter, Darlene Jasmine, had assumed the worst, the Asbury Park Press reports. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is […]

A Florida man despondent about his terminally ill daughter — who faced the amputation of her leg due to cancer — fatally shot the 11-year-old before turning the gun on himself as her mother was preparing breakfast, according to a report. The girl, who had been undergoing chemotherapy, was at her home at Southwest 18th Court in Davie with her […]

TWO soldiers from Fort Hood have been arrested for trying to pay for sex with underage girls over social media, cops say. Anthony Xavier Antwon, 25, and 30-year-old Timmy Jones Jr. have been detained along with another soldier while Pierre Jean, 32, stationed at a base in San Antonio, Texas, and six other men. They were arrested after a two […]