The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox One man is dead and another is in hospital after a BMW was driven into a group of men near a Marks and Spencer store. Surrey Police has launched a murder investigation after the altercation in Walton-on-Thames. The force were called to […]

Russia is pulling troops back from an area near its border with Ukraine, in a move which will cool tensions in the region and also with the west. Tens of thousands of soldiers had been in the area in what Russia said was a training exercise. The country’s defence minister said he had ordered troops to return to their home […]

The aborted plan to create a breakaway Super League with 12 of the biggest clubs in European soccer was perhaps the most egregious example of a sporting venture that quickly fell flat on its face. Here’s a look at some others: STANFORD SUPER SERIES It just wasn’t cricket. American financier Allen Stanford brought razzmatazz to the quaint sport by signing […]

LONDON — Having rapidly mobilized to thwart rebel clubs from joining a breakaway European competition, the Premier League is taking steps to prevent the so-called “Big Six” from attempting something similar in the future. England’s biggest clubs have often used threats of joining a Super League as a power play in the past but now find themselves badly weakened after […]

An Auckland diner who had his car wheel clamped after using an unmarked private carpark has won a small claims case against a tow-truck company. Supercity Towing Ltd has been ordered to pay Mike Watson $100 after the motorist took the company to the Disputes Tribunal claiming there was no way he could see signs warning him it was a […]

A sharp-eyed paramedic may have helped prevent a potential disaster by spotting a drone flying close to the Dunedin Hospital helipad as a helicopter was about to take off. An Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter pilot, who wished to remain anonymous, said he had just flown a patient and paramedics from the Queenstown area to Dunedin Hospital on Wednesday evening. At […]

London: Britain’s High Commissioner to Australia has alienated Australian government officials over her criticisms of Trade Minister Dan Tehan on Wednesday and her decision last year to unilaterally threatening to suspend security discussions between the UK and Australia. In a sign of the souring relations between Vicki Treadell and key ministers in the Morrison government, the UK’s High Commissioner has […]

These hyper-realistic images may look like photographs but they are actually painstakingly-detailed charcoal drawings Dylan Eakin, 30, employs a technique known as photorealism for his drawings, which each take 100 hours He frequently draws his girlfriend, flatmate, and friends for the 18inch by 24inch charcoal pieces  The New York artist’s pieces now sell for anywhere between $2,000 and $6,000 from […]

Plans for former President Barack Obama’s presidential library are underway in his hometown of Chicago’s South Side. “We hope it will help lift up the South Side and breathe new life into Jackson Park and the surrounding communities,” former President Obama said in a tweet. Mayor Lori Lightwood announced $500 million plans to create the Obama Presidential Center in the […]