Hospitals in the under-siege strip warned they were at breaking point as all out war engulfed the region. Intense Israeli air strikes hit ­northern targets, while Hamas sent a series of rockets into southern and central Israel. In southern Gaza, tanks edged further into the city of Khan Younis where bloody battles were widely reported. The horror of the conflict […]

Bodies of two Israeli hostages are recovered in Gaza: Woman kidnapped from Nova festival – who asked her father to look after her dogs in final phonecall – is found along with IDF soldier Eden Zakaria had travelled to the Nova festival with her boyfriend Ofek Kimchi Ziv Dado, 36, was serving as a logistics supervisor in the Golani Brigade’s […]

Keir Starmer seizes on Tory ‘psychodrama’ over Rwanda ‘gimmick’ as he makes another bid to distance himself from Labour’s disastrous Corbyn era Sir Keir Starmer today blasted Tory ‘psychodrama’ over the Rwanda plan and claimed Britain was being left ‘ungoverned’ while Conservatives ‘fight like rats in a sack’. The Labour leader seized on the huge divisions within the Tories over Rishi […]

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Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. New protected bicycle lanes in inner Melbourne are now some of the safest cycling routes in the city according to bike riders, but their favourite place to ride only has painted lines separating them from cars. The Amy Gillett Foundation’s BikeSpot survey has […]

Teacher at £8,735-a-term Pembridge school in Notting Hill is found dead on stage of a nativity play at nearby church A teacher at one of Britain’s top private schools has been found dead at the scene of their nativity play at a church in West London. The 52-year-old veteran employee at the £8,735-a-term Pembridge Hall School in Notting Hill was […]

THE GRIM story of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes Mountain has been revisited in a harrowing Netflix film. Society of the Snow brings to life the harsh conditions the survivors had to endure – the pain, the cold, and why they were forced to resort to cannibalism to stay alive. On October 13, 1972, an inexperienced co-pilot failed […]

Hamas terrorists have made a chilling threat to Israel vowing more than 100 hostages will not be returned alive if their “demands are not met”. During an angry rant on Sunday the spokesman for Hamas, Abu Obeida, told a Palestinian TV channel that Israel was a “fascist enemy” with “arrogant leadership”. He said the Israelis would not be able to […]

Russian President Vladimir has been caught in an embarrassing blunder as his army’s outdated weaponry proved ineffective against Ukraine’s air defences in a strike on Kyiv on Friday. According to a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a prominent Russian military blogger disclosed that Moscow attempted to confuse Ukrainian defences by using decoy Kh-55 cruise missiles, […]