BRITISH travellers in a major European airport are in meltdown as they learn of strike action and cancellations just hours before their flight. Passengers on Jet2 and Ryanair arrived at Faro airport this morning only to be met with a departure board resembling a Christmas tree. To make matters worse, the majority of travellers were...

AN aged care burglar has been found guilty of the sickening rape of a vulnerable, elderly woman. Hayden Skinner, 31, assaulted the 76-year-old woman during a burglary at an aged-care facility on the north coast of New South Wales in Australia. During the judge-alone trial, the depraved thief said he only broke into the dark room...

A TOP secret American security document has revealed which global superpower would win if China and the US went to war over Taiwan. The highly classified Overmatch brief, produced by the Pentagon, reveals the horrifying conclusion - China would defeat the US military if a conflict was to play out over the breakaway democratic isle....

THIS is the tear-jerking moment a Ukrainian boy's tragic tale prompts his interpreter to break down. Roman Oleksiv, 11, was sharing the story of how he lost his mum, Halyna Halina, and was left with life-threatening burns by a Russian hospital bombing during a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. While recounting the horrific...

PRINCESS Sofia's sudden disappearance from Swedens biggest royal event of the year has set Stockholm rumour mills spinning. The Nobel Prize banquet in the Swedish capital glittered as usual on Wednesday night, but one chair stayed curiously empty. Sofia, 41, is normally a guaranteed presence at royal showpieces, but was nowhere to be seen. The...

THIS is the terrifying moment when a skydiver's parachute gets caught on the tail of a plane high in the skies above Australia. The dramatic incident occurred on at 10am on September 20 after the Cessna Caravan aircraft had already completed two successful trips that day. Footage shows the parachutist cautiously creeping out the door...

BONNIE Blue now faces being deported following her bombshell arrest in Bali. The adult content creator was allegedly filming a "raunchy game" with tourists when she was cuffed in Indonesia last week. The social media star, whose real name is Tia Billinger wasarrested on suspicion of allegedly producing pornographic material, which is outlawed under ...

WITH a nightclub, zoo, swimming pool, restaurants, a betting shop, a lavish suite and a baseball pitch, Tocoron could have passed as a luxury all-inclusive holiday resort. Instead it was a prison that became the birthplace of Venezuelas most dangerous organised crime gang, with a fearless journalist who went undercover at the institution revealing how...

THIS is the moment three Waymo self-driving taxis suddenly freeze in a bizarre San Francisco stand-off leaving locals baffled. The incident happened on a dead-end, steep, residential road. In the footage, one Waymo can be seen facing perpendicular to the road. Another appears to have nudged the first cars front bumper at roughly a 90-degree...

THIS is the thrilling moment Ukrainian sea drones blow up yet another of Russia's shadow fleet vessels. The Dashan tanker was left floundering and on fire after being ambushed in the Black Sea on its way to the Russian port of Novorossiysk. Stunning POV footage released by Ukraine's secret service (SBU) shows Ukraine's Sea Baby...

SWEDEN'S Princess Sofia has been swept into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal after her own family admitted she met the paeodophile financier several times - years before joining the royal family. Long before she became Princess of Sweden, Sofia Hellqvist was a lingerie model, reality TV star and a familiar name on New Yorks party scene....

A CLIMBER accused of leaving his girlfriend to freeze to death up a mountain wrote a haunting social media message after her body was found. Prosecutors claim Thomas Plamberger, 36, abandoned Kerstin Gurtner, 33, after she collapsed near the peak of Grossglockner - Austria's highest peak - where she then froze to death. He allegedly...

THE first Britishsoldierto be killed in Ukraine since Russias full-scale invasion has now been pictured. Lance Corporal George Hooley, 28, died of his wounds during an accident while testing an air defence weapon away from the front lines, the Ministry of Defence confirmed. He was serving with the elite Special Forces Support Group, which is...

A 'PROPHET' who calls himself Noah has knocked up a fleet of homemade arks as he insists a biblical flood will hit Earth on Christmas Day. Ebo Jesus, 30, goes by Ebo Noah, and claims he was told by God that it would rain for three years starting December 25. The Ghanaian has racked up...

A BRITISH YouTuber who moved to Russia says it's not the "conservative paradise" it's cracked up to be, lamenting skyrocketing prices, easy divorce, racism and interrogations. The stark realities of being a foreigner living under Putin's dictatorship were a "culture shock" to the 25-year-old Brit, who moved to Kursk to be with his Russian wife...

FORMER French President Nicolas Sarkozy has released a prison memoir detailing his surprisingly brief stint behind bars. Sarkozy, 70, was imprisoned for a total of 20 days after being found guilty of obtaining illegal campaign funding from Libyan Moammar Gadhafi in 2007. His dramatic release came after a court in Paris examined his request for...

A CELEBRITY couple on Germany's version of Big Brother were forced to consult the production team after a surprising bedroom blunder. While live on TV, Emma Fernlund, 24, and Tim Khnel,28, suddenly found themselves in a cheeky dilemma. During a nighttime tryst on Celebrity Farm an important piece of protection shockingly burst. Glamorous Emma and...

A MEGA 6.5 magnitude earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan, only days after another quake threatened massive 10ft tsunami waves. The quake had a shallow depth of just 21 miles, meaning the effects were felt more strongly near the epicentre. It is believed to have struck 75 miles away from Mutsu, Aomori, Japan. This is breaking...

YOUNG children were among at least 22 people who died after two buildings collapsed in one of Moroccos most popular tourist cities. Disaster struck in Fez the North African kingdoms cultural capital and one of the oldest cities in the world late on Tuesday night. Two adjacent four-storey buildings collapsed in the terrifying...

MCDONALDS has binned a bizarre AI Christmas advert after it triggered a storm of ridicule online. Viewers bashed the holiday commercial, branding it "creepy" and "soulless". The 45-second clip was part of the fast food giant's Netherlands campaign, and featured a jumble of frantic scenes flashing by every few seconds. The lyrics of It's The...

THE man accused of killing his wife while watching YouTube videos as he decapitated her and put her body parts into a blender, has been charged. The criminal investigation into the horrific death of the former MissSwitzerlandfinalist Kristina Joksimovic, 38, has concluded with the models husband being charged with her murder. Only named as Thomas...

SEVERAL troops were killed in a catastrophic accident that claimed the life of a British Special Forces soldier in Ukraine. They were testing an air defence weapon away from the front lines on Saturday. The elite British soldier died of his wounds on Tuesday morning, the Ministry of Defence confirmed. His next of kin have...

VLADIMIR Putin could seize on the death of the British Special Forces soldier in Ukraine to ramp up threats for the next World War, it is feared. It is the first time a serving member of the British military has been killed inside the war-torn nation - and Moscow will likely exploit the tragedy to...

A BODY believed to be that of a missing British woman has been found under some vegetation by a motorway in Spain. A massive search operation has been underway to find 73-year-old Geraldine Ann after she disappeared on 17 September. Ann vanished from her home in Chirivel near Granada in the south of Spain. She...

JAPAN'S weather agency has issued its first ever megaquake warning after a horror magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the north of the country on Monday. An offshore megaquake could wreak havoc in the Hokkaido-Sanriku area causing a terrifying 98-foot tsunami and killing as many as 199,000. The tidal wave could blast through 220,000 homes and buildings...