Three men living outside the U.S. planned to attack concerts, Times Square and crowded subways in 2016 in an ISIS-inspired attack that one of the suspects said he hoped would be "the next 9/11," authorities announced on Friday afternoon.more
German police have announced the arrest of a 55-year-old man "strongly suspected" of poisoning baby food and threatening to contaminate other products in stores nationwide and across Europe.more
Children as young as 13 are openly being sold meat cleavers and knives by shopkeepers in London, an investigation has found. Fifty shops across London were found to be selling kitchen knives, razor blades and meat cleavers to children, in the probe by Trading Standards and Scotland Yard.more
A NUMBER OF people have been receiving calls from numbers based in Vanuatu in what's believed to be a scam. It's understood that the phone rings briefly and doesn't give much time for the person to answer - which may lead them to call back.more
The whole London Underground network will be 'substantially disrupted' next Thursday by a planned strike by train drivers, Transport for London has warned.more
A devastating strain of 'Aussie flu' is heading to Britain in time for winter. It's feared the H3N2 strain could kill as many people as the 1968 pandemic in Hong Kong.
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Households are being urged to stop buying freezers and fridges that don't have flame-retardant backing, in a move to prevent deadly fires like the one that claimed at least 80 lives in a West London tower block in June.more
Online jihadist propaganda attracts more clicks in the UK than any other country in Europe, a report has found. Britain is the fifth-biggest audience in the world for extremist content after Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Policy Exchange's study said.more
Hurricane Maria is forecast to rapidly strengthen over the next two days as it takes aim at Caribbean islands devastated by Hurricane Irma just days ago.more
Hurricane Irma may be gone, but the 2017 hurricane season clearly isn't done yet. Tropical Storm Maria has formed in the Atlantic and is now advancing on the same islands that took the brunt of Irma's wrath.more
Millions of rats are set to creep into homes in the next few weeks - and the switch to fortnightly bin collections is only going to boost their numbers. As we head into Autumn, a plague of rats from woods and fields are making their way straight for rubbish bins overflowing with leftovers outside homes.more
A diabetic woman has slammed Starbucks after a latte with 18g of sugar in it allegedly almost sent her into a diabetic coma. Liz Adams, 46, and her partner Paul, from Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, stopped for a coffee on their way back from a short break in Cornwall at Michael Woods services in Gloucestershire last week.more
South Florida was starting to feel the effects of Hurricane Irma, with the National Weather Service reporting that the area is starting to see hurricane-force wind gusts with some tornadoes possible.more
Packing life-threatening winds, provoking massive storm surge and causing a host of rainfall dangers, Hurricane Irma slammed northern Cuba on Saturday, continuing to plod a path of devastation through the Caribbean en route to the US state of Florida.more
Nearly one million highly qualified European Union nationals working in Britain are planning to leave the country following last year's Brexit referendum, a new study has found. The survey, conducted by KPMG, found that 55 percent of EU citizens with PhDs and 49 percent of those with postgraduate degrees had either decided to leave the UK or were considering it. more
A chemical cloud which forced coastline evacuations across East Sussex on Sunday is "very unlikely" to have floated over from northern France, authorities said.more
The rate of skin cancer is at a record high in Ireland, it has emerged. Latest figures show that in 2014 as many as 1,041 people were diagnosed with melanoma in Ireland - the first time the number of incidences here surpassed the 1,000-mark since records began.more
Helicopters plucked desperate flood victims from rooftops Sunday while boats and trucks swept hundreds more residents to safety as the remnants of Hurricane Harvey fueled historic rains and devastating flooding across a wide swath of East Texas.more
Several people have died after a horrific collision between two lorries and a minibus on the M1, causing chaos for motorists travelling for the Bank Holiday weekend.more