I AM looking forward to 2020. This country is about to begin a new chapter and no matter how things unfold, there is no doubt most of us are ready for a change. I am ready to ring in the new with heartfelt enthusiasm. But just before we say goodbye to this year, I’ve been thinking about all the brilliant […]

LEE Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo is working as a de-radicalisation mentor at the jail where London Bridge attacker Usman Khan was an inmate. The jihadi, 34, who renounced extremism last year and said sorry to the family of soldier Lee, 25, has taken on an unofficial role talking to jailed terror plotters. Adebolajo, given life for murdering Lee, has been […]

Driver, 87, dies from a heart attack in prison nine days after being jailed for killing woman, 64, by hitting his car accelerator instead of the brake in a Sainsbury’s car park William Heagren died at Wormwood Scrubs in London on December 14 He had been jailed for 27 months for causing death by dangerous driving Jeanette Newman died in […]

Jersey City shootout was targeted attack on kosher deli, police say Closed circuit cameras at the scene of a daytime shootout in Jersey City show the gunmen jump out of a van and begin firing into a Jewish market; Bryan Llenas reports from the scene. The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an […]

Raging bushfires in Australia may have wiped out 30 percent of the nation’s koalas, the federal environment minister said this week — as a weekend heatwave is expected to intensify the crisis. “Up to 30% of the koalas in the region may have been killed, because up to 30% of their habitat has been destroyed,”  Sussan Ley told the Australian […]

Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 27 Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 27 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com Six of the seven people on board a Hawaii tour helicopter that went missing Thursday have been found, officials said Friday. There are no indications of survivors. The seventh person has not been recovered and a search would […]

Richard North Patterson at his home in Massachusetts.Credit:New York Times There was a president whose psyche he did want to occupy in his fiction: President Kerry Kilcannon, the liberal fantasy of what Robert F. Kennedy might have been if he had lived to become president. The hunky, blue-eyed (with flecks of green) Kilcannon stars in a trilogy of Patterson books, […]

The baby magpie that made my heart take flight: FRIEDA HUGHES says George was a bundle of fluff left half-dead by a storm… but he was soon ruling the roost after she adopted him The magpie pair were king and queen of my garden, writes Frieda Hughes  The magpie pair were king and queen of my garden. They skipped and […]

A new height for Rocketman! Sir Elton John becomes part of prestigious Order of the Companions of Honour group to mark his services to music and charity  He has been appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour The elite group of Britain’s most notable figures from arts, science and politics The award comes after a remarkable year that […]

Skier is buried alive for five hours under 16ft of snow in Austrian avalanche before being rescued alive in ‘Christmas miracle’ 26-year-old man was skiing the slopes of a mountain 50 miles from Salzburg   Rescuers said he survived because a large pocket of air was in front of his face  Discovered when rescuers located the signal from his avalanche transceiver  […]