-
Man, 34, arrested after 14-year-old girl is ‘raped by stranger in woods’
A 34-year-old Southampton man has been arrested on suspicion of rape after a 14-year-old girl reported being sexually assaulted in a wooded area of Swaythling, Southampton. The allegation, reported to have occurred in broad daylight, has prompted a major police investigation and specialist support for the girl. Police were called shortly after 3pm on Sunday…
-
Mother-of-four died in a ferocious blaze at her £1.2m home despite her estranged husband climbing up the drainpipe in desperate bid to save her
An inquest in Rochdale heard how mother-of-four Kate Mulcahy, 37, died in a fierce fire at her £1.2 million home in Middleton, Greater Manchester, despite her estranged husband John’s desperate attempt to reach her by climbing a drainpipe onto the roof. Ms Mulcahy had been sleeping alone in the attic bedroom after the couple separated,…
-
William Yang preserves six decades of LGBTQ+ history
Sydney-based photographer William Yang, now 82, has spent almost 60 years documenting LGBTQ+ life and his own Chinese-Australian heritage, amassing between 500,000 and 1 million images since moving to the city in the late 1960s. His work spans coming out as gay in his late 20s and chronicling the community through the 1970s, the HIV/Aids…
-
Fox found inside former minister’s Westminster office
Parliamentary authorities are investigating how a fox managed to get into Portcullis House, part of the UK’s supposedly high-security Westminster estate, before being found in the office of former minister George Freeman. Staff discovered the animal rooting through a stationery cupboard, gave it water, and had it safely removed by pest control experts, but officials…
-
US Air Force transport jet makes ‘highly unusual’ landing in Moscow sparking frenzy of theories
A US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III transport jet made an unannounced landing in Moscow on 25 August, prompting widespread speculation online given the highly unusual nature of a US military aircraft entering Russian airspace. The flight, using the call sign RCH4555, travelled from Riga in Latvia to Vnukovo International Airport in roughly 74 minutes,…
-
Mystery stowaway found dead in wheel compartment of plane at Gatwick airport froze to death during flight from Africa, inquest told
An inquest has opened into the death of an unidentified man found in the wheel compartment of a plane at Gatwick Airport, after he apparently stowed away on a flight from Morocco to Britain and froze to death during the journey. The case highlights the extreme dangers faced by stowaways who attempt to travel in…
-
Android is getting its own weird dots to cure car sickness
Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a new Android feature designed to reduce or eliminate motion sickness when using a phone in a moving vehicle. It mirrors Apple’s Motion Cues, introduced in 2024, and works by displaying moving dots on screen that counteract the mismatch between what the eyes see and what the inner ear…
-
Seam me up, Scotty! After 60 years, Star Trek has had a muppet takeover. About time too
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is breaking a 60-year franchise tradition by featuring a full puppet episode, with the Enterprise crew transformed into muppets by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in the episode Level-Five Transporter Accident. Unlike Star Wars, which has used puppetry since the 1970s with characters such as Yoda, Star Trek has historically relied…
-
Meghan mystery deepens as Guy Ritchie confirms third series of The Gentlemen – but there is no mention of duchess being offered starring role
Guy Ritchie has confirmed that Netflix’s The Gentlemen will return for a third series, but his announcement made no mention of Meghan Markle, leaving unresolved earlier reports that the Duchess of Sussex had been offered a role. Variety confirmed the new series is going ahead, with Ritchie again directing and co-writing alongside Matthew Read, though…
-
Reform’s eviction pledge, SNP infighting and Fifa “enough is enough” statement dominate
Reform UK proposes eviction of untidy social tenants as SNP rifts widen over North Sea projects; Carney defends quitting US trade talks over language rights; players demand Infantino quit; Fulham host Chelsea; Windows NT 4.0 turns 30.