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FIVE people plunged more than 300ft to their deaths after an elevator cable snapped at a Bali resort. Three women and two men were working at the Ayuterra Resort in Ubud when they got into the glass lift, which carries guests up a steep hill. But a steel cable suddenly broke and the lift was sent […]

Footage from Barcelona-bound Delta flight that was forced to return to Atlanta shows aftermath of passenger’s horrific bout of diarrhea that caused ‘biohazard issue’ Footage has revealed the aftermath of horrific diarrhea that forced a Delta flight to U-turn on Friday  Following the incident, it took cleanup crews five hours to scrub the jet while 336 […]

France BANS vegan food-makers from using meaty terms to advertise plant-based products over issues of ‘transparency and honesty’ A new decree is set to ban food-makers from using meaty words for vegan food Critics claim the French government has sided with the meat industry France has one of the slowest uptakes of vegan food in […]

Children with ‘sore throats and runny noses’ are better off at school than at home warns Chris Whitty as at home they’ll only become more anxious Letter to head teachers says attending school improves health and wellbeing Parents should send their children to school with mild respiratory illnesses, Sir Chris Whitty has said. The Chief […]

No clue about booze! A quarter of shoppers spend more than 10 minutes deciding which bottle of wine to buy at the supermarket, with half revealing that they don’t even know which types they like One third feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices of wine in shops   A quarter of shoppers spend more […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Russia’s military has started placing car tyres on top of some of their bombers to protect them from Ukrainian missile or drone attacks, some experts believe. Satellite images produced by Maxar show two Tu-95 long-range bombers at Engels […]

At last! Something to crow about – but our hand-wringing milksop Chancellor had the passion of a quivering vole: QUENTIN LETTS on Jeremy Hunt’s understated return to the House of Commons after Parliament’s summer recess At last the Government had decent news on the money front. Imparting it to a bedraggled garrison fell to that […]

One million people on sickness benefits could be forced to start looking for jobs including thousands with mobility and anxiety problems as the Government gets set to slash billions from its welfare budget An estimated 2.5million incapacity claimants are deemed unable to work Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride hopes to slash £26b welfare budget  […]

Suella Braverman bans Wagner Group as a terrorist group ranking it alongside Islamic State and al-Qaeda Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin buried in home city of St Petersburg last week Suella Braverman has banned mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist group. The Home Secretary will make Wagner a ‘proscribed’ organisation under anti-terror laws, meaning it […]

A HOMEOWNER has been ordered to tear down decking and an extension after a council used pictures captured from space to spy on him. Colin Thomas, 65, is embroiled in a planning row which prompted officials in Dorset to search out Google images from on high. He hoped to use a loophole in planning laws […]