
ERBIL, Iraq, March 14 (UPI) — Iraqi Kurdistan leaders say Islamic State fighters employed chemical weapons against Kurdish peshmerga forces in a January bombing. The Kurdistan Region Security Council issued a statement over the weekend claiming that lab tests confirm
by UPI15 Mar 2015, 3:51 AM PST0

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — It’s Saturday morning at Sha’are Shalom, but there aren’t enough Jews gathered in the dim light of Jamaica’s only synagogue to conduct a formal prayer service. An American tourist watches near the entrance of the historic
by AP15 Mar 2015, 3:36 AM PST0

Passengers on the South West Train service from Basingstoke to London Waterloo were left in shock after an announcer took to the tannoy to say that fat people should remain standing because of lack of space, the Daily Mail reports.
by A.B. Sanderson14 Mar 2015, 9:22 AM PST0

An essay in the New Yorker magazine has named Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams as the mastermind behind a series of bombings in London in the 1970s. Adams, who has always claimed he was never part of the IRA but
by A.B. Sanderson14 Mar 2015, 8:52 AM PST0

The Socialist Workers’ Party faced embarrassment after accidentally sending details of the mailing list for the ‘Wales Stand Up to UKIP’ campaign to UKIP members. The email revealed a number of unexpected names for the hard-left group, including three Tory
by A.B. Sanderson14 Mar 2015, 8:06 AM PST0

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon caused anger yesterday when she snubbed veterans and families of Afghanistan service personnel, including the 453 who died whilst serving, by skipping the Service of Remembrance at St Paul’s Cathedral. The Scottish First Minister was sent
by A.B. Sanderson14 Mar 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, says it is halting its online magazine in Russia out of fears it violates the country’s law banning promotion of same-sex gay values to minors. The Swedish retailer says its
by AP14 Mar 2015, 7:21 AM PST0

(AFP) A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled on Saturday at the symbolic heart of the British establishment that once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
by Breitbart News14 Mar 2015, 7:09 AM PST0

A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of bandits Saturday when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said, the latest crime to focus attention on the scourge of sexual violence in the country.
by Breitbart News14 Mar 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

Nigel Farage has revealed that he almost died from testicular cancer after the NHS took two months to diagnose his symptoms. In his autobiography, The Purple Revolution, serialised in The Telegraph, Mr Farage reveals how on Boxing Day 1986 he
by Breitbart London14 Mar 2015, 6:37 AM PST0

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has hinted that his career at the BBC may be over after penning a column for The Sun about dinosaurs in which he alluded to his own fate by writing about their decline and extinction.
by Nick Hallett14 Mar 2015, 4:26 AM PST0

The author of the report into the failings of Rotherham Council and the police, Prof Alexis Jay, has been named by the Home Secretary as a member of the panel looking into historic child sex abuse. The experienced social worker
by A.B. Sanderson14 Mar 2015, 4:07 AM PST0

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in today’s edition of the Daily Mail This is the schoolgirl who led her three best friends to Syria after she was radicalised under the nose of her father. Sharmeena Begum, who fled Britain
by Breitbart London14 Mar 2015, 4:03 AM PST0

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An elderly Pakistani mother made an emotional appeal Saturday for authorities to halt the execution of her son, who was sentenced to death at age 14. Shafqat Hussain was sentenced in 2004 by a court in the
by AP14 Mar 2015, 3:46 AM PST0

Merchants of Doubt, a new documentary film designed to paint climate change sceptics as “pundits for hire” in the pay of big business, has tanked at the box office. Based on a book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes
by Donna Rachel Edmunds14 Mar 2015, 3:37 AM PST0

MPs have criticised Britain’s “lamentable” record on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), saying there is a “chasm” between reported cases and prosecutions. The Home Affairs Select Committee also accused doctors, police and prosecutors of not doing their jobs properly as no
by Nick Hallett14 Mar 2015, 1:57 AM PST0

A British woman was shocked to find that a bunch of grocery store bananas she bought was infested with a cocoon of dangerous Brazilian spiders, the venom of which can give a man a painful four-hour erection if it doesn’t kill him first.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Mar 2015, 12:05 PM PST0

A Chinese PhD candidate and a member of faculty staff at the Norwegian University of Agder have been expelled, after it transpired their research was being used as a cover for work on advanced ballistic missiles. The two men were kicked
by Oliver Lane13 Mar 2015, 10:42 AM PST0

Foreign nurses recruited to work in East Lancashire are quitting the NHS because the north is nothing like London. A quarter of the first wave of recruits have left, in part as they are unable to understand the regional accent.
by Donna Rachel Edmunds13 Mar 2015, 10:27 AM PST0

Civil liberties groups have called for reform of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the watchdog for the security services, after they were smeared as having suggested that terrorism is a price worth paying for freedom. They accuse the ISC
by Donna Rachel Edmunds13 Mar 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

Video footage has emerged of the three runaway London schoolgirls in Turkey before they crossed the border into Syria. Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, all appear in the video speaking to an Arab interpreter about
by Nick Hallett13 Mar 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

Anti-migrant feelings have again boiled over in a less wealthy Rome suburb, as locals burnt out forty asylum seekers from their temporary homes, prompting the local government to move them to a secret location nearby. Italy has become a major
by Oliver Lane13 Mar 2015, 9:48 AM PST0

‘Warmism’ – the belief that human activities are fuelling catastrophic climate change – has long been slammed as a “neo-fascist quasi-religion”. Those who take a more sceptical view point to the way that warmists cling to statistics, such as the long
by Donna Rachel Edmunds13 Mar 2015, 9:43 AM PST0

Al Murray, the comedy candidate standing against Nigel Farage in South Thanet, has been forced to cancel a parachute jump as he was too heavy. The comedian was due to jump out of a plane above Headcorn Aerodrome earlier today,
by Nick Hallett13 Mar 2015, 9:21 AM PST0

Church traditionalists have reacted with shock to a full Islamic service being held in a major London church, with the Church of England vicar proclaiming his love for Allah. Although many official mosques in the United Kingdom are hosted in de-consecrated, former
by Oliver Lane13 Mar 2015, 8:38 AM PST0