More than two dozen people are feared dead after a small passenger plane crashed into homes in a densely populated area of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday. The aircraft, operated by private local airline Busy Bee Congo, went down Sunday morning shortly after takeoff from the Goma International Airport, plunging into houses in the Mapendo district […]

A WOMAN has been left with horrific injuries after her jilted ex-boyfriend beat her with a baseball bat and tried to cut off her breasts, she claims. Mum-of-one Tatiana Borkina, 29, was returning home from work when she was attacked by her ex-boyfriend Maksim Klimov in the small town of Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky, Russia. Reports say Klimov forced Tatiana in his car […]

A Chihuahua reversed a car across a busy four-lane road and crashed it. The tiny dog, whose name was not given, managed to put her owners’ SUV in reverse after they stopped to get gas in Slidell, Louisiana, on Friday. Surveillance footage shows the couple’s Hyundai begin to roll back across the garage forecourt, while the woman stood next to […]

An Election Day landslide for pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong has left the Chinese territory and the world wondering whether the results are “window dressing” or a bellwether for change. The election Sunday was the first since anger over a proposed, Beijing-backed extradition law prompted almost six months of massive and sometimes violent protests. Hong Kongers expressed that anger at the […]

UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff are set to start eight days of strike action from today amid disputes over pensions, pay and working conditions. More than a million students could be affected by the walkout across 60 universities. But which universities are on strike? Here's all you need to know. Which universities are going on strike? The 43 universities below are […]

A British man and his wife have been rescued during a dramatic gun battle in the Philippines a month after they were abducted by Islamic State-affiliated militants. Allan Hyrons, 70, and his wife Welma Paglinawan-Hyrons, were dragged across a beach resort in southern Zamboanga del Norte province in October. Witnesses said they were taken from a hut to a waiting […]

Prince Andrew’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘set to come out of hiding and speak to the FBI about her connection to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’ Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly preparing to speak to FBI about Jeffrey Epstein  Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, has been accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein, a claim that she denies  She […]

PRINCE William was involved in the sensational decision to sack Prince Andrew amid claims he is "not a huge fan" of his uncle, reports reveal. The Duke of Cambridge took part in talks between the Queen and Prince Charles to force Andrew to step down from royal duties following his car-crash BBC interview. William – third in line to the […]

Revealed: First migrant to die trying to cross the Channel drowned after leaping overboard to rescue a baby  Mitra Mehrad’s body was found washed up on a Dutch beach following the bid  The baby survived but tragically the 31-year-old PhD student died in the attempt She ‘was a very brave girl’ and did what ‘us men couldn’t do,’ a  passenger said […]

Vote fur me! Boris Johnson’s dog Dilyn goes walkies on campaign trail… but can he count on your sup-paw-t? More than two months have passed since Dilyn — the adorable Jack Russell cross rescue puppy — entered No10 Downing Street.  And he has joined his new parents, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, on the campaign trail in […]