A MAN who was struck by lightning twice claims he can now predict future storms ahead of weather forecasts. Danny Devine, 66 and from Kentucky, was celebrating his grandson's birthday when he was first struck by a thunderbolt in 2007. He was outside his house, hosting a pool party, when a storm began brewing in...

DISNEYLAND is reportedly removing scary characters with villains such as the Evil Queen from Snow White set to make appearances only at Halloween.  Baddies including Gaston from Beauty and the Beast and Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians are also feared to be at risk.  Some visitors said the California theme park was going...

A GERMAN company raised eyebrows after launching a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign for their cherry picker which was used in the Louvre heist. Furniture lift manufacturer Bcker posted a picture of the truck and wrote a shocking slogan in German that translates to "When things need to go quickly". Photos of a freight lift went viral...

A BRITISH convicted paedophile who allegedly staged a fake wedding to a nine-year-old girl at Disneyland Paris has accused fellow inmates of setting fire to his mattress while in custody. Jaskarn Jacky Jhaj, 40, from Feltham, West London, was previously convicted in 2016 of sexual activity with two 15-year-old girls. Police at the time described...

CHINA'S ambition to seize its neighbour Taiwan is no secret, and there's every sign an invasion could be imminent. In this first episode of Superpowers Exposed, defence analyst Simon Diggins reveals how the tiny island is in fact the portal to China's grander plans for "world domination". Diggins explains that President Xi Jinping's long-term scheme...

A 17-YEAR-OLD girl is said to have been lured into a car by her ex-boyfriend before being gang raped by five Syrian asylum seekers. The Aachen public prosecutor's office in Germany has launched an investigation into the five young men who reportedly raped the teenage girl. The suspected perpetrators are Syrian asylum seekers between the...

A FEMALE illegal immigrant to France was today jailed for life for raping, torturing and then murdering a schoolgirl. Dahbia Benkired, a 27-year-old Algerian, was on Friday told she would never be released from her cell for ending the life of Lola Daviet. The12-year-olds defiled corpse was found in the lobby of the building where...

A 25-YEAR-OLD Brit is facing time behind bars in Thailand after he was caught with 68,000 worth of cocaine in his hotel room. Thai narcotics officers allegedly found the tourist harbouring more than a kilogram of cocaine in a sting operation that left him in cuffs. The specialised officers traced a suspicious package sent to...

KIM Jong-un has broken ground on a new "sacred sanctuary" to the hundreds of North Korean troops killed fighting for Vladimir Putins bloody war in Ukraine. The so-called Memorial Museum of Combat Feats will pray for the immortality of the proud heroes who performed undying feats in the overseas military operations. Flanked by Russian diplomats...

THE parents accused of tattooing their one-year-old baby for a sick TikTok contest have broken their silence over the twisted video. They claim they never expected people to become so angry over the disturbing footage and say the boy was only screaming as he was tired. A horrifying video released online showed the infant weeping...

A BRAZILIAN influencer who went on the run after she was accused of being a drug trafficking boss has been arrested at a friend's house. Glamorous Melissa Said, who boasts 351,000 followers on Instagram, vanished on Wednesday after being linked to a criminal organisation involved with the distribution of cannabis and money laundering in the...

A TEENAGE girl has allegedly been gang-raped by five Syrian asylum seekers in Germany. The 17-year-old told police she was attacked after being lured into one of the suspect's apartment in the town of Heinsberg. Five men have been arrested since the alleged rape was reported, the Aachen public prosecutor's office has confirmed. The young...

A SECOND French museum was raided just hours after the world-famous 176 million heist at the Louvre. Roughly 2,000 gold and silver coins - some dating back 235 years - have been stolen from the Maison des Lumires museum in Langres after a break-in that went undetected for two days. Staff discovered the theft on...

AT LEAST 25 people have died after a bus burst into flames after a horror crash with a motorcycle. Screaming passengers were heard begging for help as a rampant fire tore through the bus within minutes in the middle of the road. Dozens of sleeping passengers on board were trapped inside after a high-speed collision...

A GIRL is fighting for her life with critical injuries after a horror two-car crash. The 11-year-old was injured along with a four-year-old boy after a silver Toyota Corolla and a grey Nissan Skyline collided at an intersectionin Melbourne. This is breaking news... please refresh for more updates...

THIS is the bizarre moment the Indian president's helicopter got stuck on a new helipad due to freshly poured concrete. Footage shows emergency services pushing the Indian Air Force's Mi-17 chopper after its wheels sank because the concrete had not set yet. They were able to move the helicopter away from the sunken part of the...

TWO Russian military aircraft violated Nato's airspace in Lithuania - forcing the alliance to scramble fighter jets. Lithuania's militarysaid a Russian Su-30 fighter and Il-78 refuelling tanker violated the country's sovereign airspace and remained there for 18 seconds. It said both the Russian military aircraft entered Lithuania from the Kaliningrad ...

AN influencer has gone on the run after being accused of running a drug trafficking ring. Melissa Said, who has 341,000 followers on Instagram, is accused of heading a criminal gang involved in cannabis distribution and money laundering. The 23-year-old was targeted by the police as the main suspect. During raids at five properties linked...

BRITS heading for the Balearic Islands are set to face a major blow as unions push for a shock tourist tax hike. The anti-tourist tax plan is set to see militant unions pressing for a 15 euro payment per DAY in the summer months. Rather than raising cash for the upkeep of the islands the...

PUTINS chief child-snatcher has shamelessly confessed to brainwashing a Ukrainian boy she stole from bomb-blitzed Mariupol. Wanted war criminal Maria Lvova-Belova admitted that her adopted son, known only as Philip, was moved to Russia against his will. She revealed he sang Ukrainian songs, was anti-Russian when he arrived in Moscow and suffered constant ...

A 23-YEAR-OLD TV presenter has tragically died in hospital three days after a horror crash. Dayanna Trujillo was riding to work on her motorbike when she collided with a taxi. It was raining heavily at the time, and witnesses say she lost control of the bike on the slippery tarmac near a sports centre. She...

A HAUNTED house actor has been arrested after disturbing CCTV showed him attacking a young woman with a taser and choking her. Piercing screams could be heard in the footage as 24-year-old Melike G begged the masked employee to let go even as he pinned her down. The 18-year-old worker, later identified as Baran T,...

ASTONISHING new footage has emerged of the 76million Louvre heist burglars escaping down the cherry picker with their stolen loot. There's not a single policeman or security guard in sight as the thieves descend back to the pavement before speeding off on scooters. The video shows two masked men, one wearing a high vis and...

THIS is the horror moment ex-Big Brother star Sam Pepper shot a firework that struck an eight-year-old girl in the face in India. Livestreamed footage shows the Brit and his pals laughing and shouting Headshot! as he launched fireworks toward a group of locals during Diwali celebrations in New Dehli. Moments later, chaos erupted when...

MURDERED schoolgirl Lola Daviets dad "died of grief" after learning his daughter had been tortured and suffocated to death, according to the girl's mum. Dahbia Benkired, 27, an Algerian migrant living in France, has confessed to the twisted abuse and murder of 12-year-old Lola, and is currently on trial at the Paris Assizes. Tormented father...