US officials are reportedly preparing to storm and seize more tankers transporting Venezuelan oil to put pressure on dictator Nicols Maduro. Tensions between Washington and Caracas escalated when rifle-wielding US troops rappelled from helicopters to raid an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Stunning footage showed commandos sweeping through the ship ...

BULGARIA was thrown into chaos last night after its prime minister dramatically quit less than a year into the job. Rosen Zhelyazkov walked away from power as enormous crowds flooded Sofia, demanding his government be kicked out. His resignation landed just 20 days before the country joins the euro, plunging Brussels into alarm. The shock...

A SUSPECTED killer has been found dead by the roadside with his eyes gouged out in a horrific twist to a murder case. Cops say the suspect Jose Brito Dos Reis was murdered with four bullets to the head and one to the back. But disturbingly they revealed his eyes had been removed. An anonymous...

A MUM has tragically died after having a botched nose job by a doctor who was allegedly unqualified. Miriam Mitma Yalli, 37, underwent the cosmetic procedure on 10 November after passing pre-operative tests. But the mum-of-two was given a higher dose of anaesthesia than her body required, according to her family members. Minutes after being...

IT was just after 5am and still dark when the watch commander of the 4th Fire and Rescue Unit got a call from dispatch.  A hypersonic missile had torn through the dawn sky and slammed into a nine-storey apartment block close to the banks of the Dnipro River.  Five floors were well ablaze and those...

HORROR footage shows a pickleball player plunging to death from a three-storey court after trying to retrieve a ball. The man can be seen leaping over the safety railing before falling into a safety net. But he plunged to the ground when the mesh tore under his weight. Horrified onlookers and fellow players rushed to the...

A STUNNING Colombian judge is facing a trial after posting racy videos on TikTok. Marianela Cabrera Mosquera, 47, has been nicknamed "the world's sexiest judge" by her fans. But investigators said the criminal court judge's social media presence could undermine confidence in the justice system. The judge has over 430,000 followers on TikTok, where she...

THE whistleblower who tipped cops off to Brit adult star Bonnie Blue's alleged sex operation in Bali has explained his motives - and claims he's no prude either. The expat, who lives on the island and isn't known to Blue, said, The way we tracked her wasnt particularly complicated; we just followed her through her...

A HIGH school music teacher who allegedly sent explicit photos to her student also lavished him with trips to New York as she groomed him for sex. The 39-year-old teacher turned herself in to authorities after police issued a warrant for her arrest following the sickening allegations from her former student. Ciara Picard was a...

UKRAINIANS could vote on whether to surrender land to Russia - in a last ditch effort from President Zelensky to break the peace negotiations deadlock. Russia has long demanded that Ukraine hands over the whole of the Donbas region in exchange for peace - and that decision could now fall into the hands of the...

A MIGRANT on the run from the police tried to blend into a Christmas nativity scene, pretending to be one of the Three Wise Men. The 38-year-old migrant from Ghana was fleeing the cops after being hit with a conviction for assault and resisting arrest. He had previously been sentenced to nine months and 15...

A YOUNG mother has lost her legs after being dragged under a vehicle allegedly driven by her deranged ex-partner for a kilometre. The terrifying moment was caught on video as witnesses attempted to stop the Volkswagen Golf, which violently yanked Tainara Souza Santos down a main road. The video - which is too distressing to...

RUSSIA has accused the UK of carrying out terror acts following the tragic death of a British soldier in Ukraine. The Kremlin demanded to know exactly what the British solider was doing when he was killed in Ukraine, in a disgusting statement suggesting London was help Kyiv carry out "acts of terrorism". Russian Foreign Ministry...

NATO chief Mark Rutte has urged the West to prepare for war "like our grandparents endured". He warned the UK and other allied nations are next in Russia's sights - and said member states must rapidly boost defence spending. Speaking at a security conference event in Berlin, Rutte said: "We are Russia's next target. I...

THIS is the shocking moment a seething politician aggressively tries to turn off a reporter's microphone - as she repeatedly pleads "please don't touch me". The heated confrontation broke out as TVP journalist Justyna Dobrosz-Oracz grilled senator Wojciech Skurkiewicz over Poland's efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Dobrosz-Oracz accused the senator of ...

A BOTCHED drug smuggle has left a prisoner dead after his girlfriend tried to pass him crystal meth with a kiss. The inmate apparently was so engrossed in the fatal smooch that he accidently swallowed the whole package and died of an overdose. The girlfriend, identified as Laura R, allegedly entered Leipzig Prison in Germany...

THE FATHER of a murdered Israeli soldier has revealed he learnt about his daughter's death from a harrowing video. Noa Marciano, 19, was killed by a doctor in a Gaza hospital, her dad said. The shocking video showed Noa "begging for her life", dad Avi Marciano told a small crowd in a talk on December...

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...