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Liam Fox's dangerous vision for post-Brexit Britain

HAVING managed to escape the confines of Chevening, the 115-room mansion he begrudgingly shares with fellow Tories Boris Johnson and David Davis, arch Brexit-backer Liam Fox has revealed something of...Read More

Gibraltar based Enterprise Insurance Company goes into liquidation

THE decision by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission a week ago to direct Enterprise Insurance Company to cease writing new business after the company admitted to being insolvent has now led to...Read More

Monster illegal tobacco haul in Elche

MORE than 18 tonnes of illegal tobacco with an estimated street value in excess of €2.7 million has been seized in Elche, in the Guardia Civil’s latest sting operation.
Two men and a woman...Read More

Hostages freed by police from church in Normandy

UPDATE: Father Jacques Hamel, 84, dies after having his throat slit, according to reports and another hostage is in a serious condition. The beleaguered French president, François Hollande, who has travelled...Read More

British Council boss attacks Prince George in online rant

A SENIOR manager at the British Council, an organisation charged with promoting British interests abroad, has landed herself in hot water after launching a strangely personal attack on three-year-old...Read More

Spain registers first European case of Zika microcephaly birth

A BABY born in Barcelona has been diagnosed with Zika-related microcephaly, representing the first such case recorded in Europe.
The child was delivered by caesarean section at the Vall D’Hebron...Read More

Segways sidelined

IN a more high tech version of recent events in Benidorm, where a number of mobility scooters are being barred from some of its streets, Prague has announced a ban on Segway’s on its public roads....Read More

Knife attack at care centre for mentally disabled in Japan results in numerous deaths

JAPAN, which has rarely experienced any recent form of mass murder, is horrified by news of an attack by a former employee, named as 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, on the residents of a care home for people...Read More

Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law reportedly kidnapped in Brazil

REPORTS are emerging that the mother-in-law of Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has been kidnapped in Brazil and a 120 million reals (€33 million) ransom demanded for her release.
Although yet...Read More

German terror and the psychology of violence

WHEN Angela Merkel unlocked the gates to Germany and ushered in an unparalleled era of mass immigration from the oppressed war-torn countries of the Middle East and Africa she immediately polarised popular...Read More