A SICK mother who locked up her daughter for seven years has been jailed for just five years even though the isolation left her child barely able to walk. The depraved woman imprisoned her one-year-old baby in the home of the girls grandparents in Western Germany. The girl, now aged 11, was so weak from...

A TEARFUL passenger stranded aboard a cruise ship hit by a deadly virus has issued a desperate plea, warning there are real people trapped on the vessel where three have already died. The nightmare is unfolding on the MV Hondius, where a suspected rat-borne hantavirus has left passengers stranded at sea as cases climb to...

AT LEAST 21 people are dead and 61 have been injured after a huge blast at a firework factory in China. The explosion erupted in the city of Changsha on Monday afternoon, according to state media. Almost 500 firefighters were deployed to the scene to tackle the inferno. Footage showed thick smoke billowing from collapsed...

A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy has died in Mexico after being left in a sweltering car while his mother went out partying. The child, Vicente, was found unresponsive in a vehicle parked outside a home in Mexicali. Authorities believe he died of heatstroke after being trapped inside the car for more than 12 hours. According to reports,...

A BRITISH PoW is suing the Russian state in a landmark legal case after he was starved, beaten and electrocuted by enemy troops. Ex-soldier Shaun Pinner, 52, is set to take his case to the High Court in London after he was tortured at a black site in 2022. Brave Shaun, a former soldier with...

A YOUNG British couple are facing up to 30 years in a Turkish jail for allegedly trying to smuggle two suitcases packed with cannabis to the UK. Holly Cooper and her boyfriend Taylor Johnson, both 20, were collared within minutes of landing at Istanbul on a flight from Thailand. Customs officers swooped as they headed...

VLADIMIR Putin is praying that Ukraine does not bomb Moscow during his precious Victory Day parade - so much so that he has declared a two-day ceasefire. The Russian President declared that his forces will stop all attacks on May 8 and 9 to honour the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II....

THIS is the shocking moment a plane smashed into a building in a built-up city in Brazil. The aircraft was seen circling an area of Belo Horizonte before colliding with a low-rise building. The pilot and a passenger died, according to Globo. Three others were seriously injured. The aircraft took off with five people on...

TWO people are feared dead after a car reportedly ploughed into a crowd of people in a city centre in Germany. The vehicle, which is understood to be a SUV, sped through the pedestrian zone in Leipzig before careering onto a packed shopping street. Leipzig Police have now reportedly confirmed that two people have died...

IRAN has fired four missiles at the UAE for the first time since the US and Tehran agreed a ceasefire after Dubai issued an emergency alert. Three missiles were intercepted and a fourth fell into the sea, with reports of a blaze in the engine room of a cargo ship north of Dubai. It comes...

PASSENGERSon a Singapore Airlines flightleftinjured by severe turbulence that killed a grandfather are suing for personal injury compensation, The Sun can reveal. Bradley Richards, Benjamin Read and Alison Read are all pursuing the airline for damages after being hurt aboard flight SQ321 in May 2024. Another passenger, Geoff Kitchen, 73, from Thornbury, ...

A KNIFEMAN who allegedly stabbed a woman to death in Barcelona shouted "Allahu is great" before the suspected attack, reports say. It comes after a harrowing image of the knife-wielding assailant prowling the streets just moments after the alleged assault was revealed. Spanish police have not confirmed the suspect's nationality - but local media reports...

VLADIMIR Putin has been hiding in bunkers for weeks over fears he will be toppled, reports say - as Ukraine struck a Moscow apartment days before a major military parade. The paranoid Russian tyrant has retreated to an underground unit - and security has been massively ramped amid mounting speculation of a coup. On Monday,...

A SEETHING mob crowds around a young mum doused in gasoline as she is thrown into blazing pit and burned alive after being accused of using black magic. It sounds like a medieval tale from ages past - but it is one of thousands of witch hunt cases which still happen to this day, and...

IN the kitchen of their Essex family home, Keith Di Palma and his two grown daughters sit at a granite worktop adorned with bright floral bouquets.  With the spring sunshine flooding through the window and a forest of vibrant flowers decorating the house, if someone took a photo, it could look like a celebratory scene....

A PERV passenger groped a sleeping woman sat beside him on a flight before returning to give her a creepy note, allege court records. As the unsuspecting woman dozed off, the man reportedly began trying to slide his fingers beneath the victims clothing. The stomach-churning alleged assault was reportedly caught on camera by two horrified...

A MISSING hotel boss swept away in raging floodwaters has been found dead inside a massive monster crocodile after cops named it their prime suspect. Police spent four days flying a drone over the man-eating croc before shooting it dead and airlifting it off the predator-riddled island to check out their hunch. Incredible footage showed...

CHINESE authorities have known for four years that a pilot crashed a Boeing 737 deliberately, killing all 132 on board, a US probe has revealed. China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 smashed into a mountain at 350mph in Guangxi after the captain intentionally brought down the aircraft, newly surfaced data reveals. The tragic collision on March...

VLADIMIR Putin's regime is ready to "snap" at any moment and spark a violent crisis, an ex-CIA boss has warned. The UK and US must be prepared for bloodshed as Putin's popularity rapidly diminishes in Russia, former senior agent Glenn Corn said. The tyrant's war in Ukraine has weakened his control as he faces mounting...

THE husband of a Miss Switzerland finalist has gone on trial today over the gruesome death of his wife. Marc Rieben, 42, allegedly flew into a rage before murdering Kristina Joksimovic - as a shocking autopsy revealed he dismembered her body and "pureed" parts of it in a blender. Today, as the trial opens at...

DEEP undercover in the world's most secretive regime, a retired Danish chef turned spy spent ten gruelling years exposing North Korea's crime-ridden engine. Ulrich Larsen, known as "the Mole", rubbed shoulders with the powerful foreign representatives and figures in the Hermit Kingdom - eventually getting his hands on a weapons list that resembled a ...

TERRIFIED passengers have been ordered to stay on a virus-ravaged cruise ship where three people have died and a Brit was left fighting for his life. Six suspected cases of hantavirus have been reported on the MV Hondius, travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde, according to the World Health Organisation. So farone case of hantavirushas...

A BRIT is fighting for his life in hospital after a suspected outbreak of a rodent virus on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic. Three people have died on board the MV Hondius that was travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde - but fears are rising that more will fall victim. So far one...

A MUM has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after "handing her 14-year-old son a deadly weapon" that led to the death of a Vietnam War veteran. Ed Ashman, 81, was walking home from El Toro High School in Lake Forest, California, where he worked as a substitute teacher, when an e-motorcycle smashed into him. Behind...

A FOUR-year-old boy is fighting for his life after a horror drowning in a hotel pool sparked a frantic airlift dash to hospital. The youngster was pulled from the water in southern Gran Canaria on Saturday afternoon after suffering a severe drowning incident that left him in a critical condition. Emergency crews rushed him to...