New plans to dump waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean could create mutant animals, an expert has hinted. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) are set to start launching treated and diluted wastewater from the 2011 disaster into the Pacific today (Thursday, August 24) after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave them the all-clear earlier this […]

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Wagner Group mercenary cries at shrine for Yevgeny Prigozhin The mercenary Wagner Group may have lost three of its most prominent members if it is confirmed leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder Dmitry Utkin and logistics chief Valeriy Chekalov died in a plane crash on Wednesday evening (August 23). The Wagner chiefs’ decision to travel together was described as surprising by one […]

A new Wetherspoons is set to open in an unlikely location – a former London strip club – and locals are not happy about it. Permission was on Thursday, August 17, granted by Camden Council for the pub chain to open The Captain Flinders, on Eversholt Street. The new boozer is set to open inside the venue of a former […]

The reported fiery death in a plane crash of Putin’s former chef turned head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been described as a possible act of revenge and a “dish best served cold”. Sky’s International Affairs Editor Dominic Waghorn explained Prigozhin’s alleged death could be traced back to his actions in the June revolt by his soldiers. Unhappy […]

Bookmark Dank Holiday washouts are set to ruin the long weekend as autumn comes early. Downpours are seeing beaches emptied by a 500-mile wide “Arctic bulge” of cool air and rain. After a Saturday soaking for many, rain will hit again tomorrow, with more showers on Monday. READ MORE: UK seaside resort falling apart because it's 'peppered with dodgy characters' […]

A pair of guests were caught on CCTV laughing after allegedly stripping their hotel room of everything they could get their hands on. The hotel owner claims that the pair showed up to check in for their booking without any luggage. After they went back to their cars and headed up to their rooms carrying what appeared to be empty […]

By JIM HEINTZ (Associated Press) Yevgeny Prigozhin made his name as the profane and brutal mercenary boss who in June mounted an armed rebellion that was the most severe and shocking challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, killing all 10 people on board, according to Russia’s civil […]

When scientists switched on the instrument aboard a new satellite this summer, they got a preview of what will soon be the nation’s first continuous record of air pollution. The satellite will stay parked above North America and provide scientists with hourly daytime updates on air pollution nationwide. On Thursday, researchers released their first images, which show changes in nitrogen […]

By JONATHAN J. COOPER (Associated Press) A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it. When the camera shutter blinked inside an Atlanta jail on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president […]