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Special Forces of the future should be planting malware in enemy servers rather than fighting wars with daggers, the new armed forces minister said yesterday. James Heappey, a former Army officer, said the UK needed to develop the capability to ‘switch off’ other countries’ infrastructure and ‘mess around’ with their systems. Mr Heappey, handed the … Read more
Migrants from the EU will have to speak English and have a job offer under sweeping reforms to end Britain’s reliance on cheap European labour. The measures are part of the biggest shake-up to border rules since this country joined the Common Market in 1973. Low-skilled immigration will be made virtually impossible under a points-based … Read more
The woman who was involved in a famous string of murders that inspired the movies Natural Born Killers and Badlands was denied a full pardon on Tuesday despite some of the victims’ families’ claims that she deserves it. Caril Ann Clair, who went by Caril Ann Fugate at the time, was 14 in November 1957 … Read more
The Russian beauty queen who wed the then-Malaysian king has claimed she was sent ‘poisonous messages’ and told she ‘wormed her way into the Sultan’s bed’. Oksana Voevodina, 27, revealed the set of astonishing texts as Russia’s top female opposition politician Ksenia Sobchak vowed to protect her and her baby son Leon. She claims the … Read more
Russia today said it will ban all Chinese citizens from entering the country due to the virus outbreak centred in China that has infected more than 73,000 people worldwide. The temporary entry ban comes into effect from Thursday at midnight Moscow time for an indefinite period, according to a decree signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail … Read more
Julian Assange’s father says extraditing the Wikileaks co-founder to the US is akin to a death sentence John Shipton said he feared the worst for his son’s health should he be extradited Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is due to open in London next week It will open against a backdrop of allegations about his treatment in … Read more
At least seven people died and 11 more, including an 11-year-old girl, were injured when a bus exploded while driving down a highway in southeast Colombia. The deadly incident occurred in a key drug-trafficking region where illegal armed groups vie for control, a high-ranking military official said on Tuesday. The explosion, which is being investigated … Read more
‘The Leaning Tower of Dallas’: Eleven-story building is left with a precarious tilt after demolition using 300lbs of dynamite fails to bring it down A Dallas building was left with a 15-degree tilt after a failed demolition Sunday 300lbs of dynamite proved insufficient in imploding the 11-story structure The lopsided landmark quickly became an internet … Read more
The expert at digging: Amelia Halls With her distinctive smile and blue dye in her hair, she stood out in the group photo taken in front of the freshly vandalised lawn. Ironically the 21-year-old is an expert in digging as a former trainee site assistant at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at the university. The Manchester … Read more
We’ve only got 10 years to save the planet, warns Prince Charles on the 50th anniversary of landmark speech he gave on plastic pollution and other threats to the environment The Prince of Wales warns that humans have just ten years left to save planet Comes 50 years after he warned about plastic waste and … Read more