EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: When Silvio Berlusconi wanted to make-up with Gordon Brown Ex-PM and chancellor Gordon Brown recalls travelling to Paris after the Lehman Brothers collapse led to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis to meet French president Nicolas Sarkozy, German chancellor Angela Merkel, head of the European Union Jose Manuel Barroso and Italy’s leader Silvio Berlusconi. Hearing the latter grumble about […]

French experts try to rescue beluga whale that swam up the Seine river and return it to the sea in complex operation Beluga whale, which is normally found in the Arctic, swam up the River Seine It is now 81 miles inland and experts are hoping to transport it to seawater basin They will try to get animal weighing 800 kilogrammes […]

Irish tourist drowns at swimming pool in Spanish resort town The man was found dead in a pool in La Pineda on the Costa Dorada this morning Emergency services were called at around 11am but were not able to save him Police sources have said he was Irish and his death is being treated as accidental An Irish tourist has […]

A MUSHROOM cloud has erupted at a Russian base after Ukraine allegedly fired its first missile strike on Crimea, sending tourists fleeing from a beach. Videos showed a huge plume of smoke rising from Novofedorivka base on the annexed peninsula, which has until now avoided major assaults.  A dozen explosions were heard of varying intensity and huge columns of smoke were […]

Radiologist husband’s hidden ‘Nanny cam’ catches his dermatologist wife ‘repeatedly spiking his lemonade with Drano’ in kitchen of their $2.7m California mansion: She’s arrested and released on $30,000 bond Dermatologist Yue ‘Emily’ Yu allegedly put Drano into husband’s lemonade  Jack Chen, a radiologist, told police he had become sick after ‘poisoning’ He handed police video evidence from nanny cam he […]

It’s been nearly a year since “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone purchased Lakewood’s iconic restaurant Casa Bonita, but they’re no closer to figuring out when it may open. In an interview with The Denver Post, Parker and Stone lamented the project, if endearingly, saying they had no clue what they were getting themselves into when they picked […]

This is the moment a catastrophic explosion sent a mushroom-cloud-style ball of fire high into the sky in Cuba. A firefighter is dead and 16 others are missing after three tanks at a fuel depot exploded. The massive blasts were caught on camera, after a lightning strike sparked a major disaster in the island nation on Friday. Helicopters were scrambled […]

Passengers aboard a Qantas jumbo jet were left terrified after the aircraft was struck by lighting while in the air, leading to the heroics of a quick-thinking pilot. The huge fright for passengers aboard the Perth to Port Hedland flight ended up with a necessary diversion to Karratha Airport, Australia, after the reported lightning strike at 6.48am on Tuesday (August […]