A man who was repeatedly raped at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s says his bid for compensation was almost thwarted by lawyers for the religious order, who incorrectly claimed two key witnesses in the case were dead. Peter* received a payout after his own lawyers found the witnesses […]
A PETRIFIED partygoer who passed out drunk has told how he woke up buried inside a coffin as revellers offered him up as a human sacrifice. Victor Hugo Mica Alvarez, 30, broke out of the casket in Achacachi, Bolivia, around 50 miles from where he had blacked out during a […]
Kyiv: Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant must be protected by a demilitarised zone urgently, the United Nations chief said, after Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling the site repeatedly. Ukraine’s Energoatom agency said the Zaporizhzhia complex in Ukraine was struck five times on Thursday, including near where radioactive […]
Bangkok: Sean Turnell, an Australian academic who is being tried with ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of violating the country’s official secrets law testified in court for the first time on Thursday, a legal official said. Turnell, an economist and professor at Sydney’s Macquarie University, had […]
A TOP female general has made history as the first woman to serve as deputy head of the Army. Lieutenant General Sharon Nesmith, 51, is also the only female to reach the three-star rank. When she joined the Army in 1992, women were still banned from combat jobs. The Balkans […]
A LITTLE girl legally changed her sweet name to stop her cruel classmates barking orders at her. The six-year-old, from Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, was relentlessly ridiculed by youngsters at school. Her parents baptised their daughter Alexa – just before Amazon's popular device boomed in the tech market. As the […]
FBI director Chris Wray calls death threats against agents ‘deplorable and dangerous’ in the wake of the agency’s raid on ex-President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Trump allies have stepped up rhetoric against the FBI and Justice Department Reports suggest there has been an increase in death threats against FBI Director […]
Rishi Sunak is facing exodus of backers to his Tory leadership rival Liz Truss, her campaign team says Tory leadership contender Rishi Sunak is said to be losing support among MPs An ‘exodus’ of Sunak’s supporters could defect to Liz Truss, her campaign said Former minister Chris Skidmore yesterday became […]
End EU ‘imperialism’: Polish PM launches scathing attack on Brussels as he likens Germany to Russia and says alliance’s strongest members wield all the power Morawiecki said the most powerful EU nations sit behind a guise of democracy He said big EU states, particularly Germany, were part of a de […]
As Beijing announced that it would continue its military manoeuvres around Taiwan without any end date as its forces prepare for “joint encirclement” of the island, a senior US official has said that the Taiwan crisis is not yet over. Chinese President Xi Jinping will continue to pile pressure onto […]
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