What’s an Iowa mom calling “Satan’s Handiwork?” What’s making moms in California break down in tears? Or causing parents in Pennsylvania to feel their “blood boil?” Why, it’s nothing less than Common Core math. Norman Rockwell-type scenes of parents patiently
A prominent health campaign group has expressed its concern at the poor English skills of immigrant nurses working for the National Health Service (NHS), saying that they put patients at greater risk of mistakes being made. The Patients’ Association, who
A senior official on the Australian team searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 believes most of the promising “pings” discovered in recent weeks may not be related to the missing plane’s black boxes. Australian naval Commander James Lybrand says
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and Mayor of London Boris Johnson rushed to help woman who had collapsed in North London on their way to a campaign event yesterday. The patient, who was in her 20s, was comforted by the
A group of scientists have written to Britain’s Energy Secretary Ed Davey to protest American forests being cut down and pulped to provide biomass for UK power plants. Under the government’s biomass scheme, power stations are asked to stop using
The Daily Mail – one of Britain’s best read newspapers and one of the most highly ranked news websites in the world – has been forced to apologise and pay damages to the wife of UKIP leader Nigel Farage after
CANNES, France, May 9 (UPI) — Actress Nicole Kidman said she understands why the children of Princess Grace of Monaco are upset regarding the movie being made about their mother. Kidman portrays the actress-turned-royal Grace Kelly in the upcoming film
Forty-seven-year-old Mark Lampman, a former high school teacher in Texas, shot himself dead on May 7 following allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a student. The suicide came only one day after Lampman stepped down from his teaching
A House of Commons committee has called for an urgent review after looking at details of the plan to give Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) the ability to take money from people’s bank accounts without a court order. The
Two Jordanian journalists became embroiled in a fight on live TV in which they completely destroyed the set. Shaker Al-Johari and Mohammed Al-Jayousi were debating Syria’s ongoing civil war when they disagreed so strongly that they started fighting. The Daily
On May 1st restaurant employees at a Fort Worth, Texas, Jack In The Box hid in a freezer after members of Open Carry Texas entered the store carrying their rifles in plain sight. According to the Daily Mail, employees “fled
Reports coming out of the UK, specifically the Daily Mail, shed new light on the missing Malaysia Airways Flight 370. Eleven al Qaeda-linked terrorists are being questioned on their knowledge of the missing plane and there is speculation surrounding more
An inquest into the death of a 23 year old architect who tried to save her fiancée from an apartment fire, has been told that the fire alarms in her block of flats had been found turned off two years
The charred remains of British businessman have been discovered on the paradise island of St Lucia. The Daily Mail reports that local sources have claimed Ollie Gobat’s body was found with two bullets in his head. The 38 year old
Speaking at The New York Meeting on Monday, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) took a firm stance against illegal immigration, saying massive illegal immigration angers legal immigrants and threatens to balkanize America. Panelists who were more moderate on immigration policy tried
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who failed in his bid to secure the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, said he is “not sure” Republicans care as much about the poor as Democrats do. Speaking at The New York Meeting on Monday,
If the Church of Global Warming still had any real credibility, the bombshell revelations by Harvard professor Robert Stavins in an open letter published Friday would be devastating. As it is, the fanatics will probably scream that Stavins has become
Police have forked out £6m to guard the Ecuadorian embassy because WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange is hiding out there, reports the Daily Mail. The Metropolitan Police have been standing guard outside the embassy 24/7 since June 2012, at a cost
A man was crushed to death by a giant cross dedicated to John Paul II just days before the former Pope is declared a saint. The 100 foot cross collapsed suddenly during a ceremony in northern Italy, killing 21-year-old Marco
Stressed workers at three UK government departments took the equivalent of more than 125 years off sick last year. Staff at the Home Office, Department for Education and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) were absent for more
Hurrah for Kate and Wills. I don’t want to sound too much like a 16-page Daily Mail pull-out celebratory royal supplement here. But I’m going to have to because it’s true: on their massively successful three-week tour of Australia and
Labour leader Ed Miliband’s wife could benefit from Labour’s pro-wind farm policy if the party win the next election. Justine Thornton is a barrister who has previously helped developers in legal battles to build new wind turbines. The news comes
From the Daily Mail: The daring seafarers who went on Christopher Columbus’ second trip to the New World in 1493 had major obstacles to overcome in their journey. Not only were they stepping into the unknown to find a home,
From the Daily Mail: As Rome prepares to celebrate its official 2,767th birthday, archeologists believe they have unearthed fresh secrets about the ancient city. They claim the discovery of a boundary wall of the river port of ancient Rome suggests
An illegal immigrant who stabbed a 15-year-old cannot be deported from the UK because he now claims to be gay. The 29-year-old Jamaican man was jailed for life when he was 16, after he stabbed a boy to death over
Edward Lucas, a prominent journalist who works for The Economist, has warned the Ukraine crisis may rapidly devolve, creating the conditions for a potential World War III. Lucas is an expert on Russian affairs, serving as The Economist‘s Moscow bureau
Families of Iraqi dead “lied and exaggerated” in order to “deceive and mislead” an inquiry into believing that British troops executed and tortured prisoners in order to win huge compensation payouts, an inquiry has heard. British troops were alleged to
From Edward Lucas in the Daily Mail: Deep in the flat and featureless landscape of eastern Ukraine, it is all too possible that the outline of World War III is taking shape. … We are soon to face a bleak
23-year-old Daniel Athens will spend 18 months in a state jail for urinating on the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. An Alamo ranger discovered Athens relieving himself on the landmark on the evening of April 14, according to the Daily Mail.
A professor who took a group of Palestinian students to Auschwitz has been disowned by his university and branded a ‘traitor’ by those in his community, reports the Daily Mail. Professor Mohammed Dajani took 27 Palestinian college students to visit
Leading Conservative Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan has taken to his Telegraph blog to insist that European Anti-Fraud authorities will not find against UKIP leader Nigel Farage, implying that the Times and others reporting on the issue simply
The Muslim Brotherhood is reported to be fleeing its recently established headquarters in London following the announcement of an investigation into their activities by Prime Minister David Cameron. A report in the Daily Mail makes mention of the fact in
A former Tory staffer who gave evidence against Nigel Evans has claimed that drinking and sleaze is out of control at Westminster, according the the Daily Mail. The 35 year old, who is the infamous ‘reluctant’ alleged victim of Nigel
The Ministry of Defence has been accused of paranoia for trying to ban a book that exposes intelligence blunders in the war in Afghanistan. The Daily Mail reports that Captain Dr Mike Martin from the Territorial Army spent six years
On April 2, Deborah Hughes looked out her front window and saw Steve Utash on the ground being brutally beaten by a gang of men–she grabbed her pistol and ran to his aid. According to the Daily Mail, Utash had
In March, five-year-old Jordan Bleimeyer of Spring, Texas was found severely malnourished and badly beaten, according to news reports. The child’s father, 24-year-old Bradley Bleimeyer, and stepmother, 33-year-old Tammie Bleimeyer, allegedly kept the child locked under the stairs in their home. Officers
A CCTV video shows an “agitated” topless woman in only panties going crazy in a St. Petersburg, FL McDonald’s… (h/t Daily Mail) UPDATE: According to a report from Tampa, FL NBC affiliate WFLA, the woman in the video is Sandra
On April 3, Eric and Charlotte Kaufman sent a “satellite ping” to alert the U.S. Coast Guard that they were stranded about 900 miles off the coast of Mexico with a sick one-year-old baby. The Kaufman’s had undertaken “a cruise
British buyers are increasingly being priced out of the UK property market by foreign investors, particularly the Chinese. The latest example, as reported in the Daily Mail, is the seven acre RAM Brewery development in Central London, which will be
Britain’s Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby has said that it would be “absolutely catastrophic” if the Church of England were to accept gay marriage. He said the move would place Christians around the world in danger. Speaking
