The Kent village once home to a global child sex cult: How the Children of God – which once counted Rose McGowan and River Phoenix as members – preached their message from manor house in British countryside in 1970s ‘Children of God’ cult set up at Hollingbourne Manor, Kent in the early 1970s The US cult was founded in 1967, […]

The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A huge fireball was seen erupting in Lebanon amid reports of a gas explosion – just months after a giant fertiliser explosion levelled a huge area of Beirut. Footage shared on social media on Sunday shows a huge ball of fire rising […]

South China Sea: Military exercises ‘must continue’ says expert In the UK’s first post-Brexit year the country will face many new threats, and the pandemic’s legacy goes far beyond loss of life. The very real economic challenge posed by China will see relations between Beijing and the West remain fraught through 2021. Its new five-year-plan has placed science and technological […]

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has today called for a national lockdown to come into force within the next 24 hours – urging Boris Johnson to "do it now". He told the Prime Minister to bring in the tough restrictions urgently and added that the closure of more schools is "inevitable". ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest […]

BORIS Johnson would lose his own seat if an election was held now, according to a new poll. The Red Wall, which saw the Tories land a historic win a year ago, would also be in danger of falling back into the hands of Labour, the data shows. A large poll, carried out by Focaldata, shows the PM has less […]

Denver leaders who for two decades have backed densification, paving over greenspace with concrete and asphalt to accommodate more people in the city, now are turning to trees for relief from worsening heat islands that amplify climate warming. But urban ecologists and city officials say trees alone won’t be enough to keep Denver habitable as temperatures increase. They urge a […]

The government has been forced to ask thousands of nurses and midwives to urgently fill shifts at Victoria’s coronavirus testing sites amid long queues and closures at some locations on Sunday. The state’s health authorities conceded they were unable to “flick a switch” to immediately restore testing capacity at clinics, with many weary staff taking a holiday as 60,000 Victorians […]

The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A bereaved dad whose child was slaughtered during the Sandy Hook Massacre has to be interviewed in a full disguise to protect himself from crazed conspiracy theorists. Noah Pozner was only six years old when he was gunned down surrounded by his […]

PARIS (AFP) – Two French soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northeastern Mali on Saturday (Jan 2), just days after three others died in similar fashion. Their deaths brought to 50 the number of French soldiers killed in the West African nation since France first intervened in 2013 to help drive back militant forces, […]