A GLAM businesswoman was allegedly shot dead by her boyfriend, who was 38 years older than her, moments after dumping him. Priscila Lacerda Custodio, 24, was gunned down following a furious row with cattle rancher Joo Roberto Bolelli, 62, at his Brazilian property. The couple had been dating for just four months, but Priscila had...

NORTH Koreans are being sold online to Russian businesses as part of a state sponsored forced labour programme, a report has found. The twisted scheme allows Vladimir Putin to bolster his war machine with a brutally controlled workforce while Kim Jong-Un snatches their wages to fund his ballistic missile programme, it claims. A bombshell investigation...

A FARMER was tortured by violent robbers who hacked off his ears and chopped them up into tiny pieces after stabbing and shooting him. Donovan Marx, 50, was brutally ambushed by two men at his South African farmhouse shortly after his wife, Louise, had left for work. Armed with a gun and a knife, the...

A MUM accused of giving her one-year-old baby Fireball whiskey to make the tot pass out has dodged jail after the infant was found dead. Christina Davis, 23, was handed just 18 months probation after her baby was discovered lifeless and covered in urine and faeces at the family home. The shocking allegation emerged when...

AT least two people have been killed after a rock spire collapsed at a tourist hotspot in Turkey. Heavy rain is said to have triggered a landslide at the landmark before one of the formations known as "fairy chimneys" crumbled. One injured person was also rushed to hospital following the horror in Cappadocia, local authorities...

COPS in the Philippines have been granted a warrant to search Thomas Markle's computers, phones, hard drives and old videotapes. Meghan's half-brother Thomas Jnr told The Sun he handed over four large boxes of items to cops last week including a mass of unviewed material. At the same time, he provided a sworn statement...

THE hero flydubai pilot who fought off his axe-wielding co-pilot during the attempted hijacking of a Tel Aviv- bound plane has revealed his horror scars. Smit Machchhar was awarded the United Arab Emirates' First Class Order of Zayed II on Wednesday. Standing beside fellow crew members, thick lines of surgical scars were exposed across the...

A 24-YEAR-OLD athlete has been named as one of the 69 people who were killed in a high-speed train crash in Spain. Julieta Gallego, from the Madrid-based club AD Sprint, had "a life ahead of her that has been unjustly extinguished", president of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation Ral Chapado said. Other desperate family members...

A YOUNG girl who was mauled by a wolf in front of horrified children was on a "zookeeper day" experience when the beast pounced on her. Emergency services raced to Johannismhle wildlife park near Berlin after the eight-year-old was set upon inside the predators enclosure on Wednesday. The young victim suffered severe head injuries in...

THIS is the shocking moment a man drives along a street with a baby left on the roof of his car. Dramatic footage showed the youngster strapped into a carrier on top of the moving silver vehicle as bystanders desperately tried to warn him. In the heart-stopping video, recorded in Mexico on Tuesday, the man...

A FOUR-month-old baby has been killed after a medical worker allegedly injected milk into his veins instead of his feeding tube. Miguel Angelo Barbosa died while being treated for bronchiolitis at a hospital in north-eastern Brazil. He had been admitted on October 11 after being rushed to an urgent care unit suffering with breathing difficulties....

A BRITISH mum has "suddenly" died while on holiday in Belgium, leaving her devastated family facing a desperate battle to bring her body home. Elizabeth Barnes, known as Liz, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, October 24, during a short break with her husband and two pals. The former Air Cadets Warrant Officers shock death has...

AT least 13 people have been killed after a devastating Russian drone attack blitzed a railway station in Dnipro. It came after Ukraine's "biggest overnight drone attack of the war," with more than half of the 1,200 drones downed by Russian air defences overnight aimed at Moscow. Putin mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov blasted Ukraine for attacking...

A SECOND after hitting record on our camera, I saw sparks by my foot and a tear gas grenade exploded near my rear end. A loud bang accompanied it and, unsure what it was having just watched fireworks go off, I immediately jumped out of the way. Other startled photographers darted off, rioters screamed, police...

A BRIDE-to-be has been mauled to death by a 16ft crocodile in front of her horrified fiance. Selviana Ambu Kaka, 24, was dragged into a river after the scaly beast latched onto her leg using its fangs. She was washing clothes alongside her boyfriend, Fabianus Dowa, and his sister Imelda, moments before the horrific attack...

A LEFT-WING activist who allegedly rammed Australian MP Helen Haines with a car claimed it was an accident after he "panicked", it is reported. The independent politician underwent the amputation of both her legs after she was repeatedly hit by a car and pinned underneath it. Cops allege Monday's horror incident was a targeted attack...

THIS is the moment a rampaging deer wipes out a woman in a car park before smashing through a launderette window and sparking chaos. Wild footage captures the runaway buck hurtling across a road before making a spectacular leap over a parked vehicle and ploughing straight into an unsuspecting woman. The startled victim is knocked...

HAUNTING audio recordings have revealed the mistakes made in the moments before the 124mph train crash in Spain that killed 69 people. Rescuers are still combing the collision site for bodies as anguished families wait for news about their missing loved ones. Furious protesters meanwhile took to the streets in Madrid last night to demand...

VLADIMIR Putin has been forced to import thousands of prosthetic arms and legs for his maimed troops from Nato - despite being at war with Europe. The humiliated Russian tyrant has stocked up on 126million worth of artificial limbs in the last year from the EU. Shocking figures also show that in the first half...

VLADIMIR Putin has hailed Elon Musk as a "real genius" after SpaceX cut Ukraine's Starshield connection, plunging its air defences into darkness. Desperate to develop a satellite internet network for Russia, the President has been taking notes from the billionaire. Elon Musk is a genius, a real genius, the dictator said during the Russia-Africa Summit...

THIS is the disturbing moment a driver lost control of their Tesla before smashing through a wall and plunging into a home across the street. Footage shows the vehicle ploughing through the entrance of a house in the Cuajimalpa district of Mexico City - but that did not stop it. Continuing its trajectory, the car...

A HEARTBROKEN mum whose newborn baby was killed by a falling avocado has blamed his death on the local council for allegedly failing to cut down the dangerous trees. Lucas had been nestled in his mothers arms when one of the fruits from the three avocado trees lining a school entrance fell and hit him....

A POLAR bear attacked a worker at a remote Arctic oil-export terminal in Russia where Vladimir Putin inaugurated shipments last month. Dmitry K., sufferedmultiple bite wounds to his head, shoulders and hands - and the skin and tissue off his face and back was also ripped off. Armed security guards had to escort medical workers...

A BRITISH grandma has drowned while trying to rescue her grandaughter who had been swept out to sea. The girl, 10, had been swimming with an inflatable when strong currents pulled her under off the coast of a beach in Menorca, Spain. Desperately trying to save her granddaughter, the pensioner, 69, dived into the water...

A TRAVEL influencer known as "your barefoot bff" drowned while on her dream holiday in Nicaragua. Emma Marie Laurent, 24, was one of three young women who died when the when the Toyota Hilux truck they were travelling in was swept away by a flooded river. Swiss tourist No Lina Luscher, 20, and Karen Nahomi Lpez...