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‘Daredevil’ teenage freerunner, 18, ‘who would try to jump off anything’ died after ‘hurling himself’ from a train station railing and hitting his head, inquest hears Ryan Davies, 18, died after fall at Gowerton station, near Swansea, late last year At an inquest, his mother Katie Marie Davies said her son was a keen freerunner Cause … Read more
China to send 100,000-strong ‘duck army’ to help Pakistan fight its worst locust plague in 20 years The legion of birds will be dispatched from Zhejiang Province, eastern China They are of a native breed billed as the ‘locust-killing genius’, local paper said China deployed ducks to fight a similar infestation in Xinjiang two decades ago … Read more
Sporadic violence hit parts of Delhi overnight as gangs roamed streets littered with the debris of days of sectarian riots that have killed 33 people, police said Thursday. Thousands of riot police and paramilitaries patrolled the affected northeast fringes of the Indian capital of 20 million people, preventing any major eruptions. The unrest is the … Read more
The number of billionaires in the world has reached a record 2,816 and are worth a record $11.2 trillion in total – more than the GDP of every country except for the US and China. An extra 346 people are on the list this year – including MacKenzie Bezos following her divorce last year from Amazon founder Jeff … Read more
Pope Francis has been forced to cancel a planned Mass in Rome with other clergy after suffering a ‘slight illness’. The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a ‘slight indisposition’ that meant he did not attend an event at the St John Lateran basilica in Rome on Thursday morning. A spokesman said Francis would continue with … Read more
The most remote island in the UK that has had no permanent resident for 90 years because life is too tough is to get a new £5.5m visitor centre – 40 miles away. St Kilda – a UNESCO World Heritage site – sits 40 miles west of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland which is the … Read more
Britons are panic buying nappies, toilet roll, soup, tinned fruit, pet food, medicine, bottled water, wine and even setting up ‘isolation’ rooms at home in case coronavirus shuts down their communities, it was revealed today. Families are stockpiling reserves to ensure their homes are ‘fit for a pandemic’ with some purchasing new chest freezers to fill … Read more
Photographs of the day-to-day lives of allied airmen during the Second World War have been remastered and brought to life in stunning colour. Striking 80-year-old images show an American mechanic balancing himself on shells while loading a 500lb bomb mid air; tense RAF paratroopers bracing themselves in the body of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft; and … Read more
Pictured: Mother and step-father who were found dead in their Oldbury home as son, 25, appears in court charged with their murder Jasbir Kaur, 52, and husband Rupinder Singh Bassan, 51, found dead on Tuesday Their son appeared in court charged with murder in Oldbury, near Birmingham He was remanded in custody to appear at … Read more
Boris Johnson dropped in to a homeless shelter just half a mile from his Downing Street home today as he continued to refuse to visit flood-ravaged areas of Britain. The Prime Minister found time to visit Connection at St Martins in the Fields in London to promote his new plans to tackle the scourge of rough … Read more