‘Unaccompanied minors’ who came to Europe from Syria and Afghanistan embarked on a campaign of sexual abuse and terror after they were put into classes with Austrian children who may have been too scared to report the attacks. Four boys aged
In the last two months more than 12 women from Melbourne, Australia, have run to conflict zones to support the Islamic State (IS) and become jihadi brides. Five of the 12 are known to have joined IS in Syria while
As election fever sweeps the most socially conservative regions of Pakistan ahead of this weekend’s local government polls, one crucial group is feeling excluded. Following deals between local politicians and elders, women will have no say in the district and
The British leaders of a major Jewish orthodox community have declared that women should not be allowed to drive. They have warned that, from August, children whose mother’s drive them to a community school will face expulsion. In a letter
Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson of Rannoch has asked the British government if they will support a competition by artists to depict the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Lord Pearson, who led the party during the 2010 General Election when Nigel Farage
Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as president of FIFA after days of revelations about alleged corruption within the organisation. A total of 14 FIFA officials past and present were indicted by a US court after an FBI investigation uncovered evidence
Like something out of sci-fi classic Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman, today an unsuspecting New York woke up to find a giant Protein World ad towering above the city’s Times Square neighbourhood. The now infamous, “Are you beach body
A survey given to nine-year-old children to ascertain whether they may be terrorists in the making has been slammed as “Orwellian” by shocked parents. One predicted a rise in home schooling following the invasion of privacy, as neither parents or school staff
The BBC is offering training for potential new weather presenters – but instead of requiring knowledge of meteorology the applicants must instead be disabled. An official advert by the publicly funded broadcaster said the BBC does not currently have any disabled weather
Almost 58 per cent of Norwegians would be unhappy about welcoming a Muslim son-in-law or daughter-in-law into the family according to an annual survey of attitudes in the country. The Local reports that the 2015 survey by Norway’s Directorate of Integration
Even as the international aid budget grows, the Ministry of Defence has been asked to find £1 billion in savings. The cuts must be made before this parliament’s Strategic Defence Spending Review has even taken place. The Independent reveals military planners
A lifelong theatre critic has called for all arts funding to be scrapped immediately, as publicly subsidised art is always “no good” while the private sector manages to generate “amazing things” all by itself. Douglas McPherson, who, alongside journalism and
Officials in Vietnam have warned that gender-based sex-selection abortion is reaching alarming levels. Their caution is illustrated by the story of a woman in the northern province of Hai Duong who had 18 abortions in an unsuccessful bid to give her
A Christian street preacher was held in a police cell for 11 hours after a lesbian falsely accused him of homophobia. Rob Hughes had been speaking in Basildon, Essex when a woman who said she was “gay and proud” shouted:
The European Food Standards Agency wants to limit how much caffeine an adult can consume every day which could see adults banned from frequent visits to coffee shops. According to a report from the European Food Standards Agency, seen by
Northern Ireland‘s First Minister Peter Robinson was released from hospital on Friday, four days after reportedly suffering a heart attack on the eve of a crucial debate in the regional assembly. Robinson, 66, underwent an emergency operation on Monday, the
In a scene that is all too familiar to senior UKIP officials, German politician Frauke Petry, one of the joint-leading spokespeople for the eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD), was attacked by masked opponents while dining in a restaurant in Göttingen, Lower Saxony,
David Cameron’s whistle-stop charm offensive around the EU stops in Germany today as he meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the BBC reports. The prime minister needs to convince the world’s most powerful woman to agree with his reform agenda if
Discrimination against elderly people within the NHS is set to worsen thanks to new “highly unethical” targets being set by the UN which prioritise treatment for younger people, senior medics have warned. Charities have spoken out against an “alarming” cultural
Ten members of the “Gypsy community” were arrested in Paris this week, after police blew open a major pickpocket operation around France’s best known tourist destinations. French police report the gang had been employing sophisticated tactics to rob tourists for
Syrian troops retreated as regime warplanes bombarded Al-Qaeda-led rebel fighters on Friday, a day after the insurgents overran the last government-held city in the key northwestern province of Idlib. Opposition forces now control the vast majority of Idlib after Al-Nusra
UK police arrested a man and a woman in two towns west of London on Thursday who were suspected of preparing terrorist attacks, the West Midlands Police said in a Facebook posting. The man, age 24, and woman, age 23,
David Cameron’s plans to curb migrant benefits look like they are already in tatters before negotiations have even begun. The Prime Minister is meeting his Polish counterpart Ewa Kopacz today, but before the meeting Ms Kopacz’s chief economic advisor Janusz
Imagine – a new Osama Bin Laden-like terrorist has secured an atom bomb. The world is shivering in fear – when, where will he or she strike? Which city will be devastated at the whim of a madman? Then, impossibly,
Scandal-hit FIFA President Sepp Blatter has demonstrated the scale of his sloping shoulders by saying that he can’t be held responsible for corruption in the organisation he heads. Speaking at the governing body’s annual conference in Zurich, the man who is
Rod Liddle – the thinking man’s Ricky Gervais – has been doing his Dad Dance routine again. You know the one. It’s where he shows how down-with-the-kids and still-in-touch-with-his-radical-leftist-working-class-roots he is by telling you how utterly he loathes foxhunting and
