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San Francisco man missing after Barcelona terror attack

A United States citizen has also been identified as one of the 14 who died in the Barcelona terror attacks. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was delivering an a... read more

Australia’s internet is slower than 54 other countries

Australia fell behind 54 countries in the world rankings of download speeds  Kenya, Romania and Thailand have faster internet speeds than Australia Australia s... read more

Obama quietly shows up Trump in tweet to Barcelona victims

Former President Barack Obama issued a heartfelt statement on Twitter in the wake of the Barcelona terror attack – a day after Donald Trump used a debunke... read more

Foreign Office warns further terror attacks are ‘likely’

British tourists in Spain were today warned to expect further terror attacks – as Europe’s top cop said holidaymakers faced their highest threat in ... read more

Want to stay skinny? Step on the weighing scales each day!

Weighing yourself each day may help you to shed the pounds, if new research is to be believed. Standing on the scales produced ‘unexpected’ effects ... read more

Winds to batter Sydney again with more flights cancelled

Sydney is being urged to brace itself once again as devastating gale-force winds are set to batter the New South Wales coastline for a second day running. Frida... read more

3 charities cancel Mar-a-Lago events amid Trump backlash

President Donald Trump’s comments about the white nationalist rally last weekend are hurting not just his political standing, but his pocketbook. Three ch... read more

Map shows jihadi attacks across Europe in two years

Barcelona and Cambrils, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin and London – these are just some of the horrifying attacks which have taken 364 lives, severely injured v... read more

Huma Abedin and Princess Olympia of Greece pose for W

What do Princess Marie-Olympia of Greece, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, actress Zoe Kravitz, and socialite Nicky Hilton Rothschild have in common? Not a who... read more

Hero push pram out of the way of van during Las Ramblas

CCTV from the second floor of a shop on Las Ramblas captured the incident Unknown man is seen pushing a pram with a child out of the way of the van The terroris... read more

Florida mom texts 911 when escaped inmate hid in her home

Joshua Holmes, 35, (pictured) had escaped from his work detail at a Florida landfill on Wednesday and on Thursday morning got into Roxanne Vanderveer’s h... read more

‘Multiple people injured in attack in Finland’

Several people reported to have been stabbed in Turku, Finland after rampage A witness reported seeing a body lying lifeless on the floor in the Market Square ... read more

Police officer cradles boy at Las Ramblas terror attack 

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT  Video was filmed in the aftermath of yesterday’s terror attack in Barcelona An elderly woman, possibly the child’s grandm... read more

Telling people not to ‘down’ alcohol makes them drink more

Telling students not to ‘down’ alcohol makes them drink more, new research suggests. Disapproving of drinking alcohol in one go, known as ‘bol... read more

Teen feared to have run off with Illinois school janitor

The family of a 14-year-old girl who went missing earlier this week fear that she has run off with the janitor at her high school.  Police in Illinois say that... read more

Trump: Stop Islamic terror ‘by whatever means necessary’

Donald Trump reiterated on Friday his insistence that defeating Islamist terror groups should be a major priority for the government, tweeting that they ‘... read more

Rescuers save girl with scissors stuck on head by pliers

The girl, from China, fell onto the scissors after finding them on the ground She was rushed to the hospital by her father and received surgery immediately Fire... read more

Inside flat where ‘Las Ramblas jihadi’ Moussa Oukair lived

Terrorist suspect: Police are hunting suspected Barcelona terror attacker Moussa Oukabir, 18 This is the flat where Las Ramblas terror suspect Moussa Oukabir al... read more

Man wanted by police after woman was sexually assaulted

Police are hunting a man who sexually assaulted a woman in Melbourne He approached the 22-year-old woman in a shop in a Werribee shopping mall Police believe th... read more

Australian Olympic cyclist Shane Perkins defects to Russia

Australian cyclist Shane Perkins has switched alliances and will represent Russia Olympian won a bronze at London 2012 but was left out of last year’s Rio... read more

Whale watchers engrossed by sea lions miss humpback

Two whale watchers engrossed by a group of sea lions missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when a huge humpback whale surfaced right in front of them –... read more

Manchester teens go to pub after dodging jail over crash

Two teenage girls who cheated jail over a drink-driving smash celebrated their freedom by going to the pub – just moments after telling a court they were ... read more

Little boy can identify 50 different cars at just TWO

A mini petrolhead can identify 50 different types of car at just two years old. Nicholas Drake, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, can be seen on camera reeling of... read more

Family kicked off plane after confrontation with crew

A father and daughter were filmed being kicked off a flight in a reported profanity-laced confrontation after they claimed they were privately discussing how mi... read more