SCOTLAND'S First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pleaded with Jeremy Corbyn to back a snap General Election during a secret meeting. The SNP leader and her deputy Ian Blackford held private talks with the Labour boss during a visit to Westminster on Wednesday. Her party’s 35 MPs are willing to vote for a December election but don’t want to be seen […]

End of world’s first floating hotel: Bizarre 1980s creation which began life in the Great Barrier Reef before making its way to Vietnam then North Korea will be pulled down in Kim Jong-Un’s demolition of ‘shabby’ tourist resort A world first in 1988. the Four Seasons Barrier Reef was decked out with 200 rooms, a nightclub and helipad It was […]

The Wisconsin girl stabbed 19 times by her best friend and another sixth-grade classmate to please fictional bogeyman “Slender Man” has spoken publicly for the first time since the shocking 2014 crime, saying she has “come to accept” all of her scars. “It’s just a part of me. I don’t think much of them. They will probably go away and […]

Dog called Kray ate cat called Ronnie after cruel pet owner, 29, moved out and abandoned them to starve to death as she is jailed for 18 weeks WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT  Tiffany Guest, 29, trapped cats Reggie and Ronnie and bull terrier Kray in flat The pets turned the Warwickshire property upside down and ransacked the bin  Guest pleaded guilty […]

A SYRIAN refugee has relived his ordeal of almost freezing to death in the back of a refrigerated lorry following the discovery of 39 bodies in a container in Essex yesterday. Ahmad Al-Rashid made the perilous 55 day journey from Aleppo to London in 2015 and described how the "smell of death" was "impossible to forget". Mr Al-Rashid said the […]

David Cameron will join international business elite and world leaders set to attend Saudi Arabia’s ‘Davos in the Desert’ investment conference a year after it was boycotted over murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi Mr Cameron will join former and current heads of state in Riyadh next week  Future Investment Initiative was shunned last year after the Khashoggi murder  But this year […]

An 86-year-old suspect in a 1980 Idaho cold case murder has been arrested in Texas, where he had been hiding out under a different surname, authorities said this week. Walter James Mason, who used the alias Walter James Allison, was discovered by Eastland County Sheriff’s deputies in central Texas on Oct. 10, Custer County Sheriff Stuart Lumpkin said in a […]

Only in Florida… A Florida Keys inmate has been hit with extra charges — for feeding pet iguanas to an alligator at his jail’s zoo, according to authorities. Accused car thief Jason Aaron Gibson, 40, was one of the privileged inmates allowed to work at the small petting farm on the grounds of Stock Island Detention Center, according to the […]

That’s DONKEY’S years! World’s oldest ass ‘Bubbles’ celebrates turning SIXTY – as owner admits she ‘does look her age… but is still as young at heart’ Bubbles the donkey’s pet passport shows her foaling year as 1959  This makes her six years older than the previous world record holder She has been a star attraction at Hatton Adventure World since the […]

WITH the winter chill beginning to kick in, Brits are keen to crank up their central heating to make their homes nice and toasty. But there's no pleasure without pain – as your cosy homes could attract some unwanted visitors. Experts are now warning that warm homes create the "perfect breeding ground" for fleas. It comes as new research reveals […]