Beijing: Hong Kong's embattled chief executive Carrie Lam offered to resign as protests rocked the city but her political masters in Beijing refused, it has been reported. The Financial Times, citing two unnamed sources, said Lam had made several offers to resign as the leader as protest marches brought up to 2 million people onto Hong Kong streets. Hong Kong […]

Shocking moment distraction thief brazenly walks into the home of a wheelchair-bound pensioner, 88, before stealing money from his wallet as he watched TV Dennis Birch was at his home in Leeds with the door open due to the hot weather  His CCTV captured the moment an opportunistic thief walked into his home He appears to chat to the pensioner […]

SCOTLAND Yard bigwig Neil Basu’s threat to the Press over its reporting of the US Ambassador affair is truly chilling. Perhaps Assistant Commissioner Basu has been holidaying in North Korea? His heavy-handed warning to journalists is more in line with the sort of  menaces seen in Pyongyang than it is with British values. Let us be clear, the leaking of […]

President Trump on Saturday launched a scathing Twitter attack against his prominent critic, former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. Referencing a tweet about McCabe’s book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, the president called him a “sleazebag.” “Andy McCabe is a major sleazebag,” Trump tweeted. “Among many other things, he took massive amounts of money from Crooked Hillary […]

Iran ‘plots guerilla raids on ships’ and experts warn an attack is ‘only a matter of time’ as the Royal navy’s £1bn destroyer races to Persian Gulf Britain’s most modern warship, HMS Duncan, is racing towards the Persian Gulf  Colonel Richard Kemp warned an attack is ‘a matter of when, rather than if’ He said Tehran would continue to seek […]

An Oregon man who reportedly photographed JonBenét Ramsey just months before her unsolved 1996 murder — and was later arrested for walking down a street naked, muttering “I didn’t kill JonBenét” — was indicted this week on child porn charges. Randall DeWitt Simons, 66, was arraigned Thursday following a year-long investigation by the Oakridge Police Department, according to The Register-Guard. […]

ILLEGAL immigrants sneaked into Britain hidden inside Formula One team trucks ahead of tomorrow’s Grand Prix. Two were discovered crouching among crates and boxes of kit in a Ferrari trailer at Silverstone. Track officials alerted police who called in Border Force staff. A source said: “The trailers had been parked at Calais for several days and the theory is the […]

‘They could have died so easily!’ Terrifying moment two backpackers risk their lives by dangling a blue-ringed octopus over their bare skin Two backpackers risked their lives by putting a blue-ringed octopus on their skin British backpacker Ross Saunders posted the video to his Facebook page  He and another man filmed a video of themselves putting it on their bare […]

‘BoJo wriggled like school fatty caught raiding pals’ lunchboxes’: HENRY DEEDES watches BBC resident rottweiler Andrew Neil joust with the No10 pretenders When most sensible folk were out in the sunshine enjoying a pint or three of something dark and foamy, two very different men subjected themselves to a grilling by BBC rottweiler Andrew Neil in their bid to become […]

As few as one in 50 burglaries in England ends with criminal charges being brought, shock figures show, as police forces are accused of ‘giving up’ A shocking two per cent of burglaries end in criminal charges in parts of the UK The number of burglars charged has dropped from one in 12 to one in 20 cases In North […]