ON a warm day in mid-summer 1990, a retired postman was mowing his lawn. As David Herkes paused for a break, he saw something that would remain with him forever – and marked the end of a notorious child-killer’s reign of terror. Over the street, in the tiny Scottish Highlands village of Stow, a scruffy […]
Margaret Thatcher ‘lobbied Ronald Reagan to stop the US from rearming Argentina just five years after the Falklands War’, official documents reveal Margaret Thatcher lobbied US President Ronald Reagan in the late 1980s to not sell fighter jets to Argentina Argentina wanted to replace Skyhawks after half of their 60-strong fleet was destroyed in the […]
AN EVIL husband is said to have drugged his wife before stuffing her body into a suitcase in a twisted bid to get custody of their daughter. The dismembered body of 32-year-old Ekaterina was found inside a case floating on the river in the city of Bremerhaven, Germany. The woman's husband, Walter B., 46 has […]
THE GRISLY ax murder of Betty Gore shocked the nation at large and swept headlines, there was one suspect named in her killing. Her neighbor, Candy Montgomery, was the prime suspect in the investigation and she was tried for Betty's murder. Who is Candy Montgomery? On June 13, 1980, elementary school teacher Betty Gore was […]
Black founders raised only 1.3% of 2021’s $330 billion worth of U.S. venture investment. This is shocking, especially since African American women are the leading group of new entrepreneurs either launching or running businesses. The number of businesses owned by Black women jumped 50% from 2014 to 2019, representing the highest growth rate of any […]
By Liam Mannix Andy Pask reaches his hands into the cage and pulls something out. He beckons me closer like a magician before the big reveal. From his cupped hands out peeks a short brown nose that twitches as it sniffs the air. Two black globe-like eyes cautiously follow. Dr Stephen Frankenberg, a member of […]
The Victorian government has failed in its bid to have a major COVID-19 class action thrown out of court, lawyers representing the plaintiffs say. The class action, brought on behalf of retail, hospitality, beauty, and fitness businesses, claims the government’s mishandling of Victoria’s hotel quarantine program led to the state’s second lengthy lockdown in 2020, […]
Tesla sends cease-and-desist letter to road-safety group over ‘defamatory’ ad showing one of its car mowing down child mannequins while in self driving mode Tesla has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a group who posted a video reportedly showing Tesla cars hitting child mannequins The group, The Dawn Project, said this was while Tesla’s full […]
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: BBC man’s plea for silence from former staff After Emily Maitlis criticises her former BBC employers for caving in to government complaints about her Dominic Cummings monologue, BBC journalist Christian Fraser tweets: ‘I wish longtime BBC folk (who have long stood up for the values of the organisation inside the building) would avoid […]
There’s a new pastry in town. And it’s taking over the internet. Meet the Suprême: a heavenly, cream-filled croissant that debuted at New York City’s Lafayette Grand Café & Bakery in April. Some describe the round pastry as the next cronut, the mouthwatering croissant-donut hybrid that dates back to 2013 – with others maintaining the […]
