Thousands of Hong Kong protesters hold colourful lanterns bearing pro-democracy slogans over the city’s iconic skyline in fresh city-wide rallies Demonstrators used torches, lanterns and laser pens to light up two of the city’s best-known hillsides  Protesters staged rallies on the mid-autumn festival, a traditional Chinese festival for family gathering Hong Kong has been battered by nearly 100 days of street […]

SILK knickers worn by Adolf Hitler's mistress Eva Braun are expected to fetch £800 at auction. The white undies have Braun's monogrammed initials embroidered on the front and come from an esteemed collector of World War Two memorabilia. A label states they were knitted in Bavaria in 1944 and they also feature six decorative lace panels. The racy underwear is […]

British auction house calls in police and withdraws rare Maori cloak from sale after torrent of abuse from angry New Zealanders  A British couple have been sent torrents of abuse online for selling a Maori cloak  Steve and Mary Squires had put the cloak up for auction but quickly took it down  The couple, both in their 60s are appalled […]

BANNING flavoured vape products in the UK would simply drive ­people back to smoking, say health watchdogs. President Donald Trump this week announced plans to axe flavoured e-cigs in the US over claims they are linked to deadly lung illnesses and appeal to youths. But Martin Dockrell of Public Health England said: “Banning flavours would just likely provoke vapers to […]

A CONVICTED murderer sobbed in court as she was jailed for life for brutally stabbing a man to death in the back with a kitchen knife. Clara Butler, 22, was convicted for murdering father-of-one Lance Martin in a street fight after jurors rejected her claim she was defending her dad.  Butler, of Marlborough Road, Allenton, previously admitted stabbing Mr Martin […]

SUV-hating Greenpeace activists storm car show in Frankfurt as Angela Merkel views an ELECTRIC vehicle set to hit the streets German Chancellor Angela Merkel was visiting Frankfurt’s annual IAA car show Speech and tour was overshadowed by protestors being wrestled to the ground Car industry currently under shadow of ‘dieselgate’ pollution scandal, weaker international demand and a growing environmental movement Larger […]

JAW-dropping video of gravity-defying “spider-sheep” calmly bounding up and down a vertical cliff in China is puzzling the internet. Biologist Imogene Cancellare’s clip of Himalayan blue sheep “doing the impossible” has racked up more than one million views, with people saying it’s “1,000 times better than Spiderman”. It shows the animals, also called Naur in Nepal, and Bharal in India, […]

BERLIN — German police shot and killed a man who had fled from Poland after allegedly killing a woman there, when he pulled a gun on them after they pulled over his car on a highway outside Berlin, authorities said Thursday. Brandenburg police told The Associated Press the 25-year-old Polish man was killed Wednesday afternoon, after they pulled over his […]

Hong Kong anti-government demonstrators belt out their unofficial national anthem during face-off with Beijing supporters Anti-government and pro-Beijing camps clashed into each other at a shopping mall in Hong Kong today Beijing supporters waved national flags, sang the Chinese national anthem and yelled ‘Hong Kong is China’s’ Pro-democracy camp chanted their own anthem and shouted ‘liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our […]

A MISERLY lunch lady made a boy experience his “worst birthday ever” after taking his meal away because of a £7 debt. Jefferson Sharpnack was looking forward to tucking into tasty cheesy breadsticks – with sauce – at primary school in the US when cafeteria staff embarrassed him in front of his classmates. He attends Green Primary School in Uniontown […]