Inspectors are to be sent into schools in the city of Bradford to investigate claims of a takeover attempt by Islamist fundamentalists. Officials from school inspectors Ofsted and the Education Funding Agency (EFA) are likely to begin snap inspections when
The has been a sharp rise in the number of male prison inmates in Britain claiming to be transgender, leading to fears that some could be lying to officials to gain privileges. The Sunday Times reports that there are now
Local officials in the Spanish town of Magaluf have closed a bar where a British girl was filmed performing sex acts on 24 men for a cocktail. Police said they had identified Playhouse bar as the bar where the video
World football’s governing body FIFA has fined the Argentine Football Association after the national football team held up a banner claiming that the disputed Falkland Islands belong to Argentina before one of their matches in the run-up to recent World
A child sex abuse trial in Britain collapsed after the judge “fell asleep” as an alleged victim was giving evidence. Record Philip Cattan, a barrister who sits as a part-time judge, “nodded off” as the girl, who was under 16
Power stations that burn biomass are worse for the environment than those that burn coal, new analysis suggests. According to David MacKay, the government’s chief scientific advisor on energy, burning wood imported from North America in British power stations produces
A TV host in Jordan burned a paper Israeli flag live on air during a discussion on the ongoing Gaza campaign. In a clip posted to YouTube by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Zoher Al-Azzeh burned the flag
An Australian Jihadist fighting with ISIS in Syria has appeared in sickening images posing with severed heads. Sydney-born Mohamed Elomar casually held up the two heads in photos that were posted on Twitter by his friend, convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf.
British Muslims have launched an official petition to ask parliament to debate banning the burka. If 100,000 people sign, the House of Commons will be obliged to hold a debate on whether Britain should introduce a French-style ban on full-face
America’s National Hockey League has become the latest organisation to claim that global warming threatens its future. Despite the fact that most of its rinks are indoors, it is maintaining that rising temperatures may melt frozen lakes, thus making it
A UN-backed conference on climate change ended with a call to end capitalism. The conference, organised by the Venezuelan government, saw 130 green activist groups meet to discuss their demands. Green website Respond to Climate Change says that at the
The Red Arrow aerial display team added red smoke to their fly-past at last night’s Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in what will appear to some to be a show of support of the Union. According to the official media guide
A Christian man in Iran has been sentenced to have his lips burnt with a cigarette for eating during the day in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The punishment was carried out in public in the city of Kermanshah.
Greenpeace is in turmoil after more than 40 staff signed a letter calling two of the group’s most senior officials to resign. The group faced ridicule last month after it emerged that Husting chose to regularly fly between his home
A study has found that people who were brought up under a communist regime were more likely to lie and cheat and those who were raised under capitalism. The Economist reports that research by Duke University and the University of
One of the Church of England’s most senior officials has said that women will be favoured over men when the church appoints new bishops. The Telegraph reports that William Fittall, the Secretary General to the General Synod, told parliament’s Ecclesiastical
Nearly 140,000 women in Britain are believed to be living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a practice that involves cutting, or in some cases total removal of, a woman’s genitalia. According to a report by City University
A male nurse who fantasised about killing and eating a teenage girl has been convicted for sexual grooming. Dale Bolinger, 58, from south east England, bought an axe the day before he planned to meet his intended victim. The BBC
Huge levels of EU immigration to the UK are putting a squeeze on school places and social housing while also pushing up house prices, according to government review. The Home Office’s report into how the European Union’s freedom of movement
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that “evidence-tampering on an industrial scale” is taking place at the MH17 crash site, accusing pro-Russian rebels of attempting a “cover-up”. Speaking after the success of an Australian UN resolution calling a full
The British television channel behind a controversial documentary on benefits claimants is to film a new show on immigrants, which looks set to anger even more people. Focussing on the residents of one British street, the Channel 4 documentary, it
The UK-based Independent newspaper has published a pro-conspiracy theory article that links the capture and killing of three Israeli students to an attempt by ISIS to distract attention from its ongoing offensive in Iraq and Syria. Using a picture of the
