9 h. ago Elderly man drives down Rome’s historic Spanish steps after mistaking monument for a road

This is the moment an elderly man drove his car down Rome’s historic Spanish Steps, later telling police he thought he was on his way to work.

Transport

32 h. ago 'Miracle' as man survives 200ft fall at nudist beach but gets telling off from police

The lucky walker was dropped off and allowed to 'go on his way' after plummeting 60 metres from the top of Haven Cliffs near Sidmouth, in Devon, and onto a naturalist beach below

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8 d. ago Hong Kong police tell people not to download ‘secessionist’ mobile game

Players face possible arrest for downloading Taiwan-developed Reversed Front: Bonfire, which lets them ‘overthrow the communist regime’Hong Kong police have warned people against downloading a Taiwan-developed mobile game which they say is “secessionist” and could lead to arrest.The game, Reversed Front: Bonfire, allows users to “pledge allegiance” to various groups linked to locations that have been major flashpoints or targets for China including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Manchuria, in order to “overthrow the communist regime” known as the “People’s Republic”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fears Appleby Horse Fair could erupt into violence as traveller linked to Tyson Fury threatens to fight rivals as he arrives in town with thousands for annual gathering

Connor Hamer was issued a letter by Cumbria Police telling him not to attend as intelligence they had received suggesting he may be involved in 'issues of disorder.'

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2 w. ago ‘I held his face together’: Jonathan Joss’ husband reveals ‘King of the Hill’ actor’s final moments

Exclusive: Tristan Kern de Gonzales insists that his partner’s shooting death was a hate crime, pushing back forcefully against San Antonio police, he tells Justin Rohrlich

Culture

2 w. ago Colorado terror suspect tells Boulder police he spent a year planning firebombing of pro

Suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman shouted ‘Free Palestine!’ while carrying out ‘targeted terror attack’ on group calling for Israeli hostages to be freed, FBI says

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3 w. ago Powell tells Trump that Fed’s rates policy will depend on data and outlook

Central bank chair meets US president at the White House to discuss economic expectations

Politics

3 w. ago How the British girl caught with record cannabis haul in Sri Lanka is telling police it's all the fault of a mystery man called Dan she met on a beach

Sri Lankan Airlines Flight UL 405 had barely left the runway before the 21-year-old part-time beautician from Surrey slapped on a hydrating in-flight facial mask and stuck in her earphones.

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4 w. ago Teacher 'had sex with pupil' before telling police she 'saw him as a brother'

Rouse High School teacher Darian Rogers, 22, has been charged with having an improper relationship with a teenage student after another pupil went to the police

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4 w. ago Dad made 'stupidest mistake of his life' as he left work after shift at Amazon

Rada-Emilian Ispas, 36, stole 87 Samsung mobiles and iPhones as well as high tech watches over the course of a year from his Amazon warehouse job, said to be worth a total of £85,000

Politics

4 w. ago Amazon worker tells police it is 'stupidest mistake he has ever made' after £70,000 find

He was caught out just after finishing his shift

Economics

4 w. ago ‘I’m less apologetic now’: Kelly Macdonald on her Trainspotting teen highs and hitting her stride in her 40s

She hid in the toilets during the Trainspotting shoot – yet became a screen sensation. As the star plays a police therapist in new Netflix thriller Dept Q, she explains why today’s young female actors leave her in aweOne of the good things about playing a therapist, says Kelly Macdonald with a laugh, is that you get to sit down a lot. There’s a fun scene in the new Netflix thriller Dept Q in which her character, Dr Rachel Irving, weary of her client DCI Carl Morck, plants herself down behind her desk to eat her packed lunch in front of him. Morck may be the kind of troubled detective we’re used to seeing in police dramas, but Irving isn’t a typical therapist. She’s blunt, antagonistic even. It’s a “shitty” job working with police officers, she tells him. Another time she describes him as “doolally”, which in my experience is not something a typical therapist would say; Macdonald, who has had therapy, “but not regularly”, may agree.In the show – adapted from novels by the Danish auth...

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4 w. ago Chef found in house with £34,00 worth of heroin and cocaine hidden inside a washing machine

Police found 300 deals of cocaine and heroin and Mohammad Saad drove off from the raid after telling police he had ID in his car

Economics

4 w. ago British tourist, 65, is accused of molesting dozens of children from Namibia's San tribe after forcing them to strip at remote 'living museum'

The tourist was arrested by police on Sunday after allegedly telling San children at the living museum of the Ju'/Hoansi to undress (Illustrative image of San woman)

Society