Two pensioners left bloodied and battered in separate vicious doorstep attacks

Police have released shocking images of injuries inflicted on two old ladies attacked in their own homes after robbers forced their way in

Sickening: Injuries to Jean Taylor, 76, left, in Bristol who feared she would die and the badly bruised arms of a 92-year-old in Rotherham attacked in her own home

Two old ladies have been brutally battered in separate doorstep attacks.
Terrified Jean Taylor, 76, thought she was going to die after after being beaten about the head and left covered in blood by an “evil” thug who knocked on her door.

Aunt ‘faked pregnancy’ before kidnapping newborn nephew and deserting him at petrol station

Kristen Rose Smith of Denver has been charged with kidnapping her half-sister’s newborn son from the parents’ home (Picture: AP/Tipton Iowa Sheriff)

A five-day-old baby boy who was snatched from his cot has been found alive and well in a tote bag at a petrol station, as his aunt is arrested on kidnapping charges.
Little Kayden Powell was taken from the room that he shared with his parents Brianna Marshall, 18, and Bruce Powell, 23, in Beloit, Wisconsin in the early hours of Thursday morning.

British spies 'dirty tricks' including 'honey traps and deleting online profiles' to intimidate and trap enemies in leaked Snowden documents

Revelations from documents taken from NSA by leaker Edward Snowden

Outline techniquess used by Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group

Spy unit whose goal is to 'destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt' enemies

British spies employed 'dirty tricks' including 'honey traps' in a bid to trap nations, hackers, terror groups, suspected criminals and arms dealers, according to leaked documents.
The bombshell revelations have been made public through the release of documents taken from the National Security Agency by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Powerpoint slides outline techniques used by the Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a British spy unit whose goal is to 'destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt' enemies.

British spies employed 'dirty tricks' including honey traps' in a bid to trap nations, hackers, terror groups, suspected criminals and arms dealers

The slides from 2010 and 2012, published by NBC News showed that the JTRIG completed their mission by 'discrediting' adversaries through misinformation and hacking their communications.

Britain’s most tattooed man ‘King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite’ has passport application rejected

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Passport misery: King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-ite from Stechford, Birmingham (Picture: BPM)

Britain’s most tattooed man is having trouble getting a passport after changing his name to ‘King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite’.
The 34-year-old, previously known as Mathew Whelan, was surprised when his passport renewal was rejected on the grounds his new name was not appropriate.
‘This is a breach of my human rights,’ he said. ’They want to put my birth name on my passport. But that is not my name any more.’

BBC's chief technology officer sacked weeks after being suspended for spending £98million on an 'overly-ambitious IT project'

• John Linwood, who had a £280,000 salary, was suspended in May
• He was in charged of the disastrous Digital Media Initiative
• Doomed project was meant to revolutionise BBC archives
• But it was branded a huge waste of money by Director General Tony HallThe BBC's chief technology officer was sacked weeks after being suspended over the multimillion-pound failure of an ambitious IT project, it has been revealed.
  John Linwood was suspended in May when the BBC launched a review into how the bill for the failing Digital Media Initiative (DMI), an attempt to create a digital production system and archive, had come to £98.4 million.
  
  

Dad who strangled wife and battered daughter to death with hammer while on cancer drugs jailed for life

Peter Redfern had taken a cocktail of powerful drugs to treat bone marrow cancer that could lead to 'adverse psychiatric events'

Guilty: Peter Redfern's lawyer said the killings would never have happened if he hadn't taken the drugs

A terminal cancer suffered who murdered his wife and daughter will die behind bars.
Peter Redfern, 70, had lived an “exemplary and quiet” family life with wife Jean, 67, and daughter Sarah, 33, who was more like her best friend.
He strangled his wife and battered Sarah to death with a hammer from behind.

Lovers, 16, flee public school at night and fly to Caribbean: Teenagers run away after telling friends they were sick of the rain

The pair sneaked out of Stonyhust College in Clitheroe, Lancashire

As classmates slept, they took a taxi to Manchester Airport

They were last seen in the terminal before flying to the Dominican Republic

Told friends at the £30,000-a-year school they were sick of the rain and cold

Two sixth-form lovers have jetted off to the Caribbean after sneaking out of their public school in the middle of the night.
The 16-year-olds told friends they were sick of the rain and cold after returning to their £30,000-a-year school  after the Christmas holidays.
As fellow pupils and staff at Stonyhurst College in Clitheroe, Lancashire, slept, they took a taxi to Manchester airport and were last seen in the terminal before flying to the Dominican Republic.

Sneaked out: The sixth-formers, who are said to be dating, left the Stonyhurst College in Clitheroe, Lancashire, at night after telling friends they were sick of the rainy weather

Now the pair – who are understood to have been dating each other at the school – are being sought by their parents and police on the island.
It is understood the pupils booked tickets online, then told close friends they were going to leave late on Sunday night for a romantic break in the Caribbean.

Coronation Street's Bill Roache on trial for alleged child sexual offences

Bill Roache has gone on trial at Preston Crown Court for a series of alleged sexual offences.

The Coronation Street star has been charged with two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in East Lancashire in 1967.
He also faces charges of five indecent assaults between 1965 and 1968 involving four girls aged between 11 or 12 and 16.

UK weather: thousands unable to return home after houses ruined by floods

Although floodwaters are said to be receding, authorities warn the danger is not over and there could be 'exceptionally high tides' late on Friday

A rest centre set up at Cliff Park for people evacuated from the East Anglian coast

Thousands of people will be forced to spend another night away from their homes this evening after the worst tidal surge for more than 60 years caused heavy flooding and travel chaos throughout the country.

Families across the East Coast are sheltering in evacuation centres, while shopkeepers were assessing stock damage and counting the cost of the dramatic coastal floods.

Although floodwaters are said to be receding, the Government warned the danger was not over and there would be "exceptionally high tides" late on Friday and on Saturday.

British Airways 'Refuses To Let 500-Pound Man Fly Home'

A man is having to sail home from the United States after British Airways refused to let him and his family board their return flight, according to reports.

The Chenais family was supposed to fly home to France a week ago, WBBM reported.

The family has been in the States seeking medical treatment for their 500 pounds, 22-year-old son Kevin's hormone disorder, the family told WBBM.

Paramedic battered unconscious in back of an ambulance by a drunk Nigerian man

According to reports, a paramedic was hurled against the window of an ambulance and punched repeatedly in the head until he lost consciousness by a drunk Nigerian man he had been trying to treat 

From UK Daily Mail

Akinwunmi Akinyuwa (pictured above) attacked Qasam Pervez as they were traveling to hospital in the early hours of the morning.

The 29-year-old student, who had been found slumped and intoxicated in a communal stairwell at his home, began shouting ‘angel of death’ before unstrapping himself from the stretcher. He then threw Mr Pervez against the window so he hit his head on the glass before reigning blows on the back of his head as he lay defenceless on the floor.

The immigration debate: everyone ignores the inconvenient facts

As you may have read today, migrants are more likely to pay taxes and less likely to take benefits than Brits. Of those who arrived since 2000, immigrants from the European Economic Area contributed 34 per cent more in taxes than they received from the state. Non-EEA immigrants who arrived since 2000 contributed 2 per cent more in taxes than they have received from the state, but this still compares very favourably with British people who paid 11 per cent less in tax than they received. Rather than bankrupting the welfare state, immigrants are funding it.

Yes! UK Government backs down on £3,000 visa bonds...

Yes! UK Government backs down on £3,000 visa bonds...

Great news people of Nigeria! The UK government has announced plans to cancel the £3,000 cash bond that visitors from 'high risk' countries, including Nigeria, were to put up to enter Britain. Below is the latest update from The Sunday Times UK..

Doctors grow disfigured teenage girl a new face on her BREAST

17-year-old Xu Jianmei smiles for the first time in 12 years following operation

Warning: Some may find the pictures distressing
A teenage girl who was left horrifically disfigured in a fire has had a new face grown on her BREAST by doctors.
The move follows a similar operation in which another group of Chinese doctors managed to give a car accident victim a new nose by growing it first on his forehead.
In the latest operation 17-year-old Xu Jianmei woke up after the operation this week to find that she once again had a chin, eyelids and an ear.

Nigerian man jailed in the UK for raping a woman in her own home

Nigerian man jailed in the UK for raping a woman in her own home

A Nigerian night club bouncer has been jailed for seven years in the UK for raping a woman in her own home. Idreez Popoola (pictured above), who twice dodged deportation, brutally attacked his victim on 29th December 2012, eleven months after he successful appealed his deportation ruling.

Prosecutors said Popoola met his victim while

BBC under pressure to apologise after Prince Harry drugs dig on Have I Got News For You

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Prince Harry is qualified to command an Apache attack helicopter (Picture: REUTERS)

The BBC is under pressure to apologise after Jo Brand joked about Prince Harry taking cocaine on Have I Got News For You.
Comedian Brand, who was a guest presenter on the BBC1 show, was joking about the names of Prince George’s godparents on Friday.
She then quipped: ‘George’s godparents include Hugh van Cutsem… I presume that’s a nickname as in Hugh van cuts ‘em and Harry then snorts ‘em.’

Lao Airlines plane crashes into river

 

A Lao Airlines plane crashed today Wednesday October 16th killing all 44 passengers and five crew members on board. The twin-engine turbo plane was on a domestic flight from the capital Vientiane to the airport in the Champasak province in the Southern Asian country when it plunged into the river as it tried to

Hillary Clinton fined £80 by London traffic warden

Hillary Clinton may be tipped as a future US president, but that did not impress a London traffic warden who slapped her vehicle with an £80 (95-euro, $130) parking fine.

The former US secretary of state was in town to receive a prize from the Chatham House think tank last week for her work in promoting “a new era of US diplomatic engagement”.

Hundreds of Nigerian prisoners to be sent home to serve out sentence under deal to ease pressure on UK jails

• A total of 534 Nigerian nationals are serving sentences in British prisons
• Britain has promised £1million to improve Nigeria's crumbling jails
• Minister Jeremy Wright says prisoner transfer deal is close to being sealed
• David Cameron promised to slash the number of foreign inmates

Green Liquid: Thief Caught By Hi-Tech Trap

Ultraviolet scans showed his face was marked with SmartWater liquid - which is invisible, but stays on the skin for weeks.

Askale's face was stained by the invisible and odourless liquid

A thief caught by a new police trap that turned his face bright green under ultraviolet light has been convicted of stealing from a car.

Yafet Askale, 28, was sprayed with an invisible dye when he broke into a "trap car" in Harlesden in northwest London in June.
Police traced him and found him holding items stolen from inside the vehicle, including a laptop computer.

The liquid stays on the skin for weeks

Ultraviolet scans showed his face and jacket were marked with SmartWater liquid - which is odourless and invisible to the eye, but stays on