Dog owners could face arrest and 74 lashes if they are caught walking their pets or even keeping one in their home under a proposed new Iranian law. A bill before the country’s parliament says that keeping a dog as
A landmark court case could see women who drink during pregnancy branded criminals. Lawyers for a disabled girl say that the actions of her mother, who was 17 when she was pregnant, should be considered a ‘crime of violence’. The
The Australian state of Victoria has implemented a law that makes it illegal to send lewd photographs to a partner without their consent via telephone or internet. The new “sexting” law may result in up to two years in prison
London’s response to the Ebola virus was tested last night after a woman who had recently travelled in West Africa walked into A&E at a south London hospital exhibiting symptoms of “haemorrhagic fever”. It was thought she could be Britain’s
A Cambridge-educated banker has appeared in court today, accused of murdering two prostitutes in his luxury Hong Kong flat. Rurik Jutting, 29, who has been described by a colleague as one who “talked very loud and made loads of money”,
A single lighted candle was placed on a utility box on Fairhaven Avenue surrounded by yellow crime scene tape commemorating the death of three 13-year-old girls who were killed on Saturday by a hit-and-run-driver while trick-or-treating in Santa Ana. Police
Entrepreneur Richard Branson is fighting off angry allegations of mismanagement after Friday’s crash of a Virgin Galactic rocket in California’s Mojave Desert, with critics saying that safety problems have long been an issue. The Daily Mail reports that there were
Editor’s Note: This horrific story showing an ISIS member encouraging a toddler to kick the severed head of a Syrian solider whom Muslims crucified appeared in today’s edition of the Daily Mail. A sickening photo has emerged social media showing
This article originally appeared at The Daily Mail: A British banker has been arrested after a woman’s naked body was found with her throat slashed while a second female corpse was discovered inside a suitcase.Police in Hong Kong said a
UKIP’s lead in the forthcoming Rochester by-election has jumped eight points in a monthly repeat poll and now stand at 48 percent, indicating Tory defector Mark Reckless is set to retain the seat in three weeks time. Nigel Farage’s Eurosceptic
Fiona Woolf has resigned as head of the inquiry into historic sexual abuse by members of the British establishment after it was shown she was close to Leon Brittan. The Home Office had helped Woolf draft a letter playing down
Taxpayers’ money is funding corruption in foreign countries, a damning report has revealed. The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) says the British aid is actively encouraging corrupt practices, such as bribery. In one scheme, Britain invested millions in helping
The legend of Rehana continues. Rehana, the Kurdish fighter who some claim has killed 100 Islamic State (IS) militants, is reportedly still alive and well in southern Turkey, according to some reports. IS-affiliated entities on social media claimed that the
No-nonsense Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart told MPs yesterday that Britain was a “soft touch” for asylum seekers. “These people are ready and prepared to die to come to England” she told the Home Affairs Committee, adding that the fences placed
HOUSTON, Texas — An emergency room nurse from Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital came forward and claimed that Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who brought Ebola into the U.S., lied to hospital staff about his exposure to the virus. On
Cumbria County Council attempted to get the details of a toddler’s death suppressed for 15 years in an effort to protect its staff, it has emerged. The Judge ruling on the case accepted that certain details surrounding Poppi Worthington’s death
Michael Fallon was right: parts of Britain are in danger of being “swamped” by migrants, former Home Secretary David Blunkett has said. Fallon originally made his comments in an interview on Sky News, but was quickly forced to retract them
The NFL has evolved from holding one game a year at London’s Wembley Stadium to two games in 2013 to three games this season. A report from the Daily Mail contends that the NFL already has five games in the
Canadian military reservist Nathan Cirillo was killed at gunpoint this week by a jihadist gunman in his nation’s capital, leaving behind a loving family and several adopted dogs for which loved ones say he harbored a deep devotion. Those dogs,
Greedy Brussels has demanded an extra £1.7bn from the UK tax payer because our economy is better than others in the EU. The astonishing bill is due on 1st December, just days after the Rochester and Strood by-election which the
It might have gone unnoticed by most but the handover of power in Brussels is complete: we officially have a new government ruling the federal state of which we are effectively a part. Yesterday, Jean-Claude Juncker’s Commission has been approved
A flagship child care plan introduced by the last Labour government has been shown to be so bad at encouraging mums back into work that it cost £66,000 for each one who did. The cost of giving free nursery places
A video has surfaced showing what is believed to be Islamic State militants stoning a woman to death after accusing her of committing adultery. The “honor killing” was shockingly led by the woman’s father. The woman is heard begging her
“I was Patient Zero,” intoned Monica Lewinsky at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit this week. (Monica is 41.) “I was the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the internet.” She promptly joined Twitter, and started
A High Court judge has called for the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage to be abolished, saying there is no difference between married and cohabiting couples, and condemned the divorce system for giving special protection to wives. The Daily
Plans to ‘defeat’ Ebola with a large-scale deployment by the British army are being considered by the Chief of the General Staff, who would dispatch a brigade to lock-down former British colony Sierra Leone at least until late 2015. Ebola
Dramatic reports of a ‘Russian’ Submarine hiding among the islands of the Stockholm archipelago are being taken seriously by the Swedish military, and has triggered the largest military deployment in the Baltic since the end of the Cold War. The
Conditions within Labour-run NHS Wales are worse than those faced by the patients neglected during the infamous Mid-Staffordshire scandal, according to relatives of those who have suffered. An investigation by the Daily Mail has uncovered incidents including patients dying whilst
This story originally appeared at The Daily Mail. The deadly Ebola virus could be mutating to become even more contagious, a leading U.S scientist has warned. The disease has killed nearly 4,000 people, infecting in excess of 8,000 – the majority
A college freshman at San Diego State University died from highly infectious bacterial meningitis on Thursday after spending the weekend partying with sorority sisters, where she came in close contact with 400 people. On Tuesday, Sara Selzer experienced flu-like symptoms
A terror suspect accused of plotting an attack against Tony Blair sang “We’re gonna slit their throats” in an Arabic song praising jihadis, London’s Old Bailey court has heard. Erol Incedal, who is of Turkish origin, also told his wife
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) falsely claimed that it did not have enough money for Ebola research over the last decade, but the agency did find enough money to spend millions studying origami condoms and the poop-throwing skills of
Foreign Aid has absolutely no effect on the level of political freedom on the countries receiving it, with some countries even becoming less free despite receiving more money, a new report has detailed. The document compiled by the TaxPayers’ Alliance examines
The reports from inside Kobane, the Syrian border town considered a potential watershed capture for the terrorist group the Islamic State, are ever more dire as American-led airstrikes appear to do little to stop the massacre of Kurds in a
NBC chief medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman officially became America’s Worst Media Personality on Monday, after she decided to ditch her Ebola quarantine and instead head to her favorite soup restaurant for a dish, according to the Daily Mail. On
Experts have reportedly not tested whether Ebola patients can infect others by coughing or sneezing even as one of the top experts on the particular strain of Ebola that has ravaged West Africa believes the virus is “primed” to go
26-year-old nurse Nina Pham was among the first staffers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to treat Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, the first confirmed Ebola case on US soil. Pham has been identified as the second confirmed case of the virus
The “cash-strapped” BBC has been enjoying a spending spree on Apple products over the last few years, dropping £2.5 million on more than 4,000 iPhones, 400 iPads and 800 MacBooks for staff in just eighteen months. New figures reveal that
Police have been warned that Islamic terrorists may be planning to behead a serving officer, in a similar killing to that of Drummer Lee Rigby last year. Rigby was victim of a horrific attacked outside Woolwich Barracks when he was
Terrified Kobane residents have spoken of the horror inflicted on them by jihadist fighters belonging to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Some of the atrocities include beheadings, amputations, eye gouging and the complete destruction of livestock, with refugees now flooding across
