92 m. ago Iran confirms seizure of tanker carrying ‘unauthorised cargo’ in Strait of Hormuz

Ship, sailing from Sharjah to Singapore, is reportedly carrying nearly 30,000 tonnes of petrochemical products

Transport

1 hour ago Winter Fuel Payment 2025: scam text and email warning for millions or pensioners

Millions of older people are being targeted by convincing fake messages ❄️

Events

5 h. ago Lottery conman who used a fake ticket to steal £2.5million before being jailed pays back almost £1million

Rapist conman Edward Putman, 59, was jailed for nine years for the scam he cooked up in 2009 with Lottery insider Giles Knibbs to steal £2.5million - but today £1.25m is still missing.

Economics

6 h. ago 'Canny' Meghan Markle is 'professionally wooing' Amazon top boss Jeff Bezos after string of Netflix flops, insiders claim 

Netflix bosses are said to 'have noted' that the Duchess of Sussex appears to be professionally wooing billionaire Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.

Politics

8 h. ago UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’

Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assetsShabana Mahmood is expected to announce changes to Britain’s asylum system on Monday in an attempt to quell rising fears about immigration.The home secretary plans to amend laws that guarantee housing and financial support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Bombshell email to paedo Jeffrey Epstein ‘confirms’ Andrew ‘received massage’ at Ghislaine Maxwell’s home

A BOMBSHELL email to paedo billionaire Jeffrey Epstein sheds a damning new light on sex claims made against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The message from Epstein's socialite madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, appears to confirm the disgraced Royal received a 'massage' at her Belgravia home in London. In the January 2015 email - sent just days after Andrew was...

Events

12 h. ago These parrots came to Los Angeles as pets – then went wild. Now scientists are unlocking their mysteries

Once escapees from the pet trade, Los Angeles’s feral parrots have become a vibrant part of city life, and could even aid conservation in their native homelandsA morning mist hung over the palm trees as birds chattered and cars roared by on the streets of Pasadena. It was a scene that evoked a tropical island rather than a bustling city in north-east Los Angeles county.“It feels parrot-y,” says Diego Blanco, a research assistant at Occidental College’s Moore zoology lab, nodding to the verdant flora that surrounds us: tall trees and ornamental bushes with berries. Continue reading...

Politics

13 h. ago Trump grants second pardon to Jan 6 rioter who had discussed seizing DC in ‘civil war’

Kentucky man pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm charges last year

Politics

14 h. ago Blades, drugs and cash seized after police chase through Stockport

Three people have been arrested

Events

15 h. ago Questions arise over strikingly similar signatures by Trump on recent pardons

Seemingly identical signatures appeared on clemency orders, which White House blamed on technical errorThe Trump administration’s clemency drive is coming under scrutiny after the justice department this week replaced pardons posted online that bore strikingly similar copies of Trump’s signature with others that are distinctively variable.The corrections came after online commenters seized on the similarities in the president’s signature granting “full and unconditional” pardons to seven men, including to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon, on 7 November. Continue reading...

Politics

15 h. ago Mysterious Albanians, missing £7,000 cash and a call from a dead man's phone: British mother's search for truth after her son, 35, died in Spain as police close case

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Dryden, 35, died at his home in Mojacar on the Costa Almeria after leaving his workplace to meet two people in the afternoon of July 21, 2024.

Events

16 h. ago Trump says stopping suspected drug boats doesn't work. But the US reports record cocaine seizures

President Donald Trump has justified American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs by saying the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels has been a major failure

Politics

20 h. ago Disneyland UFO theory as mysterious 'black ring' spotted hovering over park

The video of black rings floating over Disneyland has sparked a frenzy, with people trying to figure out the mystery.

Politics

23 h. ago Nine killed as explosives linked to Delhi blast blow up at Kashmir police station

Blast in restive Himalayan region leaves over 30 people injured and sets fire to vehicles parked nearby

Events

26 h. ago This coastal clifftop walk takes you to one of Wales' most mysterious structures

One of my favourite short hikes in Pembrokeshire starts in a small village and takes you to a mysterious structure carved into rock

Politics

28 h. ago Sacked Lord Mandelson suffers fresh blow after he loses honorary post at Design Museum

Disgraced former US ambassador Peter Mandelson has lost an honorary post atr the design Museum over his links with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. .

Politics

29 h. ago A British hippie era Sixties icon who mysteriously vanished without trace 35 years ago presumed dead is ALIVE... as Mail tracks elusive singer down to new life in California

Licorice McKechnie's mesmerising performance with The Incredible String Band at the most celebrated concert of the decade turned her into a sixties icon

Events

30 h. ago English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books

Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social careEnglish councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...

Politics

31 h. ago Pity the fool who owns a pool. It’s like having a large, delicate, expensive pet | Andrew Herrick

This back yard creature must be kept under constant chemical constraint, or it risks becoming more liability than assetGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI’ll call him Bruce. He’s any of the 3.1 million Australians living in a house with a pool or spa. Over my long career in hardware, listening to the woes of so many Bruces, I’ve discovered that owning a pool is not all fun and bubbles at cocktail hour.In the beginning, it wasn’t so bad. On first viewing his bayside property, Bruce already believed the agent’s claim that by far the most desirable addition to any home is a pool. It did look nice, glistening blue in the back yard. And weren’t the kids rapt. But now, years later, Bruce isn’t. Continue reading...

Politics

31 h. ago Democrats are already coming up with new plans for Trump’s ballroom

Democrats have seized on the plans for a gilded ballroom as a symbol of the president’s close ties with wealthy corporate leaders

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