Boris Johnson’s fury as Donald Trump wades into election to back Nigel Farage and urge the two to do a pact while criticising the PM’s Brexit deal for making US-UK trade deal ‘difficult’ No 10 insists ‘we can strike our free trade deals around the world’ post-Brexit US President said: ‘Under certain aspects of the deal. You just can’t do […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump says he will be making Palm Beach, Florida, his permanent residence instead of his Trump Tower apartment in New York City. Trump has owned the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach since 1985 and has spent more time there during his presidency than at his penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York. US President Donald […]

BORIS Johnson has been accused of ducking tricky election issues by delaying decisions on them until after polling day. A series of controversial policies that need urgent decisions are piling up in No10. They include whether to ban fracking for shale gas, if the new HS2 rail network should be dumped and allowing Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to build the […]

All Blacks are accused of BULLYING their opponents during the haka – after England were fined for their World Cup response to the challenge England responded to New Zealand’s pre-game haka with a V-shaped formation  The team fanned out from captain Owen Farrell and some stepped over halfway  World Rugby have fined England for their actions ahead of the semi-final  […]

A TOILET roll bearing satirical cartoons of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders is to be auctioned. One of the cartoons shows Hitler giving a salute with the caption “Now I’m brownshirt all over”. Another shows a large German general with the words “No power on Earth can wipe us out”. And another depicts a man with a Swastika emblazoned […]

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg doubled down on the firm’s stance on political advertising late on Wednesday, saying that the firm allows the ads on free speech grounds even though they don’t bring in much revenue and cause huge hassle. In an interview with Bloomberg, Sandberg said that Facebook barely makes any money from political ads. “We’re not doing […]

Istanbul: Turkish military forces captured 18 Syrian government soldiers in northeastern Syria, Turkey's defence minister said on Thursday, in one of the most dramatic examples of an increasingly muddled battleground following the withdrawal of US forces from the area. Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar.Credit:AP Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the soldiers were captured during Turkish reconnaissance operations southeast of […]

DONALD Trump today rubbished Jeremy Corbyn's sweeping claims the NHS would be sold off in a UK-US deal after the general election – insisting: "It's not for us". In an interview on LBC with Nigel Farage, the US president tore into the Labour leader, while praising Boris Johnson as a "fantastic guy". His comments came after Corbyn repeated claims Boris […]

SCHOOLBOY Danny Bowman turned up his collar, carefully positioned his iPhone and snapped his 200th selfie of the day, hoping this one would be the "perfect" shot.  The 15-year-old had 'selfitis' – the obsessive need to take pictures of yourself and post them on social media – one of a rising number of '21st Century' illnesses being identified as genuine […]

A Rudy Giuliani associate accused of plotting to violate U.S. campaign finance laws doesn’t think he should be subject to home confinement or GPS monitoring, according to his attorney. Igor Fruman — who was arrested earlier this month with a one-way ticket to Vienna alongside Giuliani fixer Lev Parnas — won’t flee the country because he’s already put up a […]