The parents of 15 year old Lithuanian boy Arminas Pileckas have blasted Sweden and the Swedish media for cowardice in the face of the migrant threat, and for covering up the murder of their son. Arminas Pileckas, a native of northern
Security at British airports is being stepped up after the U.S. received intelligence that jihadists plan to target flight with so-called “stealth bombs”. Passengers at London Heathrow will now face extra checks on footwear and electronic devices before they can
Prime Minister’s Question Time (PMQs) is a big turn off. So says Mumsnet, the website for women who have had babies, are thinking about having babies, or who are just really into the idea that motherhood is such a blessed
Dolly Parton, the 68-year old grande dame of country who stole the hearts of the 120,000 strong crowd at the mother of all rock festivals — Glastonbury — has denied that her performance involved any lip-syncing. “My boobs are fake,
Former Home Secretary Leon Brittan claimed today that he did act over serious allegations of a paedophile network in Westminster. Mr Brittan was responding to claims he failed to take action after reports were made to him of widespread child
France’s conservative family-values campaigners have forced the Socialist government to scrap plans to force all schools to introduce a gender-equality programme. Parents fear the programme is an attempt by the government to teach primary school children that “they aren’t born
Tech’s big four – Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon – all focus on software and developers this time of year. First was Microsoft’s BUILD conference back in April, but in June we’ve had Apple’s WWDC, Amazon’s Fire and just last
LONDON (AP) — Artist Tracey Emin has sold her bed — and the disheveled sheets, empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and discarded condoms were part of the lucrative deal. Emin’s artwork “My Bed” sold for 2.54 million pounds ($4.4 million)
A hard-hitting new campaign claims that if the Syrian Civil War was taking place in Britain, London would be abandoned while everyone in the town of Reading, which has a population of over 150,000, would be dead. The online international
Twitter accounts dedicated to marijuana use are more likely than not to extol the smoking of weed, celebrate its terminology and paraphernalia, recommend the advantages of having sex while high, praise the calming and/or restorative effects of a nice fat
It’s Labour’s economic focus week, so as you might expect Ed Miliband decided to run for the National Health Service (NHS), and why not? He’s in urgent need of treatment after all. Last week he was the “sick man” of
In what El País newspaper has called Spain’s “demographic blood drain without precedents,” tens of thousands of Spaniards are fleeing their own country to escape the eurozone economic disaster which has left total unemployment rate at over 25 per cent
A leaked table plan of David Cameron’s Summer Dinner last year shows who sat where, and that the attendees had a combined wealth of £11bn. Business leaders, oligarchs and ministers joined the Prime Minister at a lavish event held at
The European Union must stop giving money to Italy because it ends up in the hands of the Mafia, according to Beppe Grillo, leader of the eurosceptic Five Star Movement which won 21 per cent of the vote and 17
Good news for the technology CEOs of Shoreditch: entrepreneurs such as Michael Acton Smith OBE, founder of Mind Candy and creator of the wildly popular Moshi Monsters game, are the men married women most want to cheat with, according to
As well-publicised bouts of Islamist violence plague the Middle East, concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. Lebanese, Tunisians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Turks are all more
The British government may ban “revenge porn” – where people post explicit pictures of their ex-partner online to humiliate them, according to the Daily Mail. The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling confirmed that the government was looking to take ‘appropriate action’
There has been a lot of handwringing in the UK media about what might happen if some of the “British” jihadists come home from Syria and Iraq with deadly new skills and an even greater appetite for killing infidels. It
The leader of extremist group ISIS has called on Muslims across the world to come to the territory his group has seized to help build an Islamic state. The Daily Mail reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of ISIS, declared
Triumphant UKIP leader Nigel Farage has given EU leaders yet another scolding in the European Parliament today as MEPs took their seats for the first time since the European Elections last month that saw a wave of anti-EU candidates elected.
One question has been cautiously whispered for some time now in Westminster: How Jewish is Ed Miliband? He’s always bringing it up when convenient for him, but then he goes and scoffs a bacon sarnie in front of the nation’s
A man has died after being punched in the chest in a new internet fad. Tommy Main, 23, died in hospital after he was punched by a friend in a so-called ‘Punch4Punch’ challenge, where people film themselves punching each other.
A minister in India’s resort state of Goa has drawn ridicule by saying women in bikinis should be banned from beaches and girls in short dresses should not visit pubs. Sudin Dhavalikar, the state’s public works department minister, told reporters
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with corruption and influence peddling in a criminal investigation, French prosecutors said Wednesday. The decision came after Sarkozy was questioned for 15 hours, marking the first time a French head of state
