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Thug fractured teenager’s skull in random street attack by caving his skull in with wine bottle
Dennis Boateng, 32, approached his 17-year-old victim from behind as he waited to cross a busy road and smashed him over the head with the bottle, completely without provocation.
Is misquoting Donald Tusk for outrage the crappest Brexplaining lie yet?
Lies... there have been loads of them. And not all on the side of a bus. Banning bendy bananas... renaming Bombay Mix to make the snack politically correct... rolling out a one-size-fits-all “euro condom” - a certain section of the British press have shamelessly misrepresented the EU to invent the kind of myths that fueled the Brexit campaign. We reported this giant list of Euromyths last year. And now, with just 50 days left to avoid Britain leaving the EU in...
Police make arrest in connection with disappearance of university student Libby Squire
A 24-year-old man was arrested by officers at an address in Raglan Street last night
Use of civil servants to give advice to Conservative backbenchers over Brexit “should be investigated”
The Group - made up entirely of predominantly Tory backbenchers including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nicky Morgan has been meeting in the Cabinet Office aided by Whitehall mandarins
Over 800,000 people committed suicide worldwide in 2016 – a 6.7% rise since 1990
A study, published in The BMJ, shows that men had generally higher mortality rates from suicide than women
UN-BEE-LIEVABLE – Honeybees can do MATHS, reveals new study
Scientists say that the revelation that even the miniature brain of a honeybee can grasp basic mathematical operations has implications for the future development of Artificial Intelligence
Last year was the world’s fourth warmest on record – just behind 2015, 2016 and 2017
It means the planet really is hotting up - leaving experts with little hope of limiting climate change to global targets.
People who eat meat ‘pushing Earth’s largest animals toward extinction’
Numbers of at least 200 of the world's large creatures are decreasing dramatically - with over 150 facing being killed off completely, according to scientists
Tusk says there’s a “special place in hell” for those who promoted Brexit without a plan
Donald Tusk has said there is a "special place in hell" for "those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely". The European Council President was speaking after talks Irish premier Leo Varadkar in Brussels in which he emphasised that there were 50 days to go until the UK's exit from the European Union with no agreement yet reached. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1093123941877641217 He said he believed "a common solution" over the Irish backstop is possible,...