Putin is accused of making a rape joke about Ukraine by calling the country his ‘beauty’ amid invasion fears Putin’s comments came during a news conference with Emmanuel Macron He was criticising Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky who said he does not like the 2015 Minsk peace agreements on the country’s separatist conflict Putin said of the comments: ‘Like it or not, my beauty, you […]

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Russia and China announce new pact against US Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner discusses the White House response to the diplomatic relationship between Russia and China on ‘Special Report.’ China Daily European Union bureau chief Chen Weihua, a notable mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party, voiced his anger at the Holocaust Memorial Museum after it compared the ongoing genocide of […]

A MUM-of-five who was caught speeding five times in just 19 days argued that she needed her car as her husband is too "tied up" with work to ferry around their family. Nurse Natasha Hubble, 36, fromKnowsley, Liverpool, has been banned from the roads after being caught by the same set of speed cameras at between 58-63mph on the M62 […]

Transgender student Miles Wade struggles to comprehend how a faith-based school could be allowed to discriminate against a student because of their gender identity. He says his own school – Koo Wee Rup Secondary College, a government school in South Gippsland – was “absolutely amazing” when he transitioned to a boy in year 10. “How could the whole reason a […]

Boris Johnson tells Cabinet North Sea oil and gas production MUST continue during Net Zero transition – as BP warns windfall tax to cut energy bills would just slash investment Boris Johnson says North Sea oil must be maintained during Net Zero transition Cabinet discussed energy security amid soaring prices and Ukraine standoff BP warns windfall tax on firms would […]

US skateboarder and social media influencer Josh Neuman, 22, is among four people killed after plane crashes into lake in Iceland while he was on his way to shoot ad campaign for Belgian fashion brand Josh Neuman was killed when his sightseeing plane crashed into a lake in Iceland on Thursday. A body believed to be his was found on […]

Police rushed to the scene of a reported ‘dead body’ of a woman in a US forest only to realise it was someone's discarded life-size sex doll. The Jones County Sheriff's Office in Gray, Georgia, received news of a deceased female found on a trail in Hitchiti National Forest on February 4. The reports said a female was face down […]