A politician resigning over a decade-old guilty plea for mobile phone fraud might not seem like the story of the year. But when Louise Haigh MP stepped down under a barrage of sensational headlines, I decided to file a complaint with the…
In a typical slice of shameless self-promotion, Elon Musk has claimed that the legacy media is a dead duck, swept away by a new generation of X-style bloggers and citizen journalists surfing the Trump tidal wave right into the White…
Italian officials have ended free access to the famous Juliet Balcony in Verona that is linked to the famous scene in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and will instead demand a GBP 10 fee from a maximum of just over 1,000…
The Austrian influencer found dead after her ex-boyfriend murdered and dismembered her before putting her body parts in a suitcase was a campaigner against violence towards women. The body of 32-year-old Stefanie Pieper, who police have revealed was strangled, was…
One of the world’s largest icebergs that is three times the size of London has broken into separate fragments after drifting through the Atlantic Ocean. The iceberg, known as A23a, was shown split apart in a satellite image taken in…
Rescuers are in a race against time as they continue the desperate search for a British teenager who vanished near Dracula’s Castle after calling for help saying he was exhausted and suffering from hypothermia. His mother, Jo Smyth, has now…
Smoking cannabis has been allowed again in Munich’s famed English Garden after a court overturned a previous local ban by the park administration. The ruling has been announced after two men challenged the prohibition on consuming cannabis in the English…
The far-right German political party Alternative for Germany has proposed a baby “welcome” payment of EUR 2,000 that would be exclusively for newborns with German citizenship. The proposal, debated in the state parliament in Hannover on 20th November, would apply…
A 15-year-old apprentice has died after being tied up and having high-pressure air forced into his bum with a compressor for a workplace ‘joke’. The incident took place in a wood workshop in Bozova, Sanliurfa, Turkey, on 14th November, with…
A woman’s severed hands have been found on a motorway in the middle of the night after a driver reported an object on the road. The body parts were discovered on the A45 between the Olpe-Sud interchange and the Freudenberg…