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Horrifying new video of fatal crocodile attack as beast performs death roll on wildlife worker – months after staff taunted them in enclosure
A wildlife worker at Adventure Park in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, has died after a crocodile seized him during a feeding and performed a “death roll” while horrified onlookers watched. The attack, which occurred on Saturday afternoon, took police roughly an hour and eleven shots to end, and comes just months after videos surfaced…
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Urgent hunt to find Stanley the armadillo that is on the loose in Sussex
An urgent search is underway in East Sussex after Stanley, a six-banded armadillo, escaped from Animal Magic, a company that provides educational animal-handling experiences for schools and children’s parties. Co-owner Chris Coetzer said Stanley forced open a door of his enclosure to get out, and warned that despite their small size, armadillos can move surprisingly…
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Labour ‘chickens out’ on curbing migrant rights: Mahmood vowed crackdown but nearly a year on she hasn’t acted
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been accused of “chickening out” on immigration reforms she promised almost a year ago, with critics saying delays are allowing roughly 1,100 people a day to gain the right to remain in Britain. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp claimed Mahmood was bowing to Labour’s Left-wing, warning that migrants gaining indefinite…
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Reform UK donation row tests public trust in Farage
Nigel Farage has faced questions over Reform UK’s handling of donations after a fresh row over party funding threatened to overshadow policy announcements made at its Birmingham conference. Farage insisted the party would have “sent money back” to donors whose contributions had come under scrutiny, but the episode raises questions about trust and transparency ahead…
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Two newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for unlicensed journalism use
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their journalism was used without permission to train AI models and is often reproduced in chatbot responses to user queries. The case adds to a growing wave of litigation against OpenAI from publishers and reference providers, including The…
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Reform UK Faces Foreign Donations Row as Farage Defends £500k US-Sourced Payment
Reform UK has become embroiled in a controversy over funding sources following the release of undercover Channel 4 footage documenting discussions regarding a £500,000 contribution purportedly originating from the United
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‘I want to see wealth creation’ John Healey to say as he tries to reassure nervous markets over economy
Chancellor John Healey will use his first major speech in the role to argue that Britain must back “wealth creation” and spread prosperity across all regions, as he attempts to reassure jittery financial markets over Labour’s economic stewardship. Speaking in the Midlands ahead of what is expected to be a difficult Budget in October, he…
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Venice Film Festival Chief Alberto Barbera On Oscar Chances, Why Gaza Doc ‘NAZA’ Is Playing So Late & Why He’s Confident U.S. Studios Will Return
Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has spoken about the key issues dominating this year’s event, including the growing use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking, the politically sensitive scheduling of Gaza-related films, and the festival’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict. In a wide-ranging interview, Barbera acknowledged that AI is set to transform cinema much…
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Anglo-Russo peace push falters as Farage donor row deepens and rail chaos hits CrossCountry
US envoys Witkoff and Kushner met Zelensky in Kyiv after Moscow talks with Putin, while Farage battled a foreign-donations row engulfing Reform UK; also today, royal news, rail disruption, a new TfL calm pod, Celtic’s Asian Games blow, and tributes to Olivia Newton-John.
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ANDREW GRIFFITH: Healey risks bankrupting Britain if he takes the easy option of just hiking taxes
In this opinion piece, Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith argues that new Chancellor John Healey will worsen Britain’s public finances if he opts to raise taxes further in his upcoming Budget rather than reforming welfare and reducing state spending. Griffith contends that Healey, having sat in the Cabinet under Rachel Reeves, has already signalled he will…