Sixth-former, 18, jailed for four months for possessing knife that killed 17-year-old Yousef Makki LOSES bid to keep his identity a secret – but judge rules he cannot be named in case he appeals Yousef Makki, 17, was stabbed in the heart by his friend Joshua Molnar, now 18 Molnar stood trial alongside ‘Boy B’, 17, who admitted possession of […]

More than 1,400 migrants are evicted from Paris’s biggest makeshift camp as riot police and bulldozers move in 600 single men and 240 families had been living in the ramshackled shanty town at Porte d’Aubervilliers They were ferried out of the area in a fleet of coaches that took them to 17 so-called ‘reception centres’ The mainly Afghan, Eritrean and Libyan […]

Government’s £46m drive to get the public ‘Ready for Brexit’ last year had no impact, says Whitehall watchdog Government spend tens of millions of pounds on a Brexit advertising campaign Aim was to ensure that UK businesses were ready to leave the European Union But National Audit Office found campaign had little impact on UK preparedness  The government’s multi million-pound […]

THE Chinese influencer whose gruesome video of her eating bat soup has broken her silence amid fears it was linked the deadly coronavirus outbreak. A video of Wang Mengyun munching on a fruit bat with chopsticks went viral following the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan. Bats have been identified as a possible carrier of coronavirus, which is understood to have […]

A WITNESS has described how the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant smashed into a Los Angeles hillside in a fireball, just feet away from him. The chopper plummeted more than 1000ft in seconds killing all nine on board, including Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna, investigators have revealed. The witness was on a mountain bike ride with a friend when they spotted the […]

Poignant photographs show a devastated dad returning to the family home where he found his three young children dead days ago. Andrew McGinley is pictured looking at floral tributes outside the property. Distraught neighbours in Newcastle, west Dublin, expressed their grief and embraced Mr McGinley today. "What do you say to someone who has just lost his three children? It […]

KOBE Bryant's daughter Gianna, who went by "Gigi", was among the nine victims who tragically died in Sunday's helicopter crash. Kobe Bryant said Gigi was a basketball star in the making, describing her as "something else" on the court, with the 13-year-old wanting to follow her five-time NBA champion father’s footsteps. Who was Kobe Bryant's daughter Gianna?  Gigi was a […]

Online giants are facing a news crackdown after ministers back calls for them to trade on fairer terms with publishers Government has said it will create a code to ‘rebalance’ news relationships Moves are aimed to help ensure journalists are ‘fairly treated’ and ‘rewarded’ Online news providers struggle because Google and Facebook ‘take revenue’ Moves to force online giants such […]

A plane described by US officials as a small US military aircraft has crashed in a Taliban-controlled area of central Afghanistan, with the insurgent group claiming to have brought it down. The US officials, who wished to remain anonymous, said there were no indications so far the plane was brought down by enemy activity. The aircraft that crashed in eastern […]

Icelandic volcano is showing signs of a potential eruption as aviation warnings are raised – ten years after huge ash cloud brought travel chaos and saw 100,000 flights cancelled The Icelandic Met Office declared a state of uncertainty over the weekend Alert levels for aviation were also raised from ‘green’ to ‘yellow’ In 2010, eruptions at Eyjafjallajokull sent a huge […]