A senior Ukrainian security official has said his country’s investigators will explore a range of possible reasons why one of its passenger jets crashed in Iran, including a drone collision, a terrorist bomb and a missile attack. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s national security council, cited unconfirmed reports circulating on social media that debris from a Russian-made missile had been found at the site, on the outskirts of Tehran, where the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed on Wednesday, killing all 176 passengers and staff onboard. As House speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares for a Thursday vote on limiting his … Continue reading A senior Ukrainian security official has said his country’s investigators will explore a range of possible reasons why one of its passenger jets crashed in Iran

A couple have issued a groveling apology after being caught having sex on a Thai beach. Russians Roman Grigorenko, 26, and Daria Vinogradova, 19, were filmed romping in Pattaya, Thailand, on New Year’s Eve. While hundreds of homes were lost across New South Wales on the day, Mr Abbott and his colleagues managed to save every home on one burning street. The footage drew praise for Mr Abbott, who was ousted as prime minister by his own colleagues in favour of the moderate Malcolm Turnbull in 2015. Mr Abbott, who attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, lost his Sydney … Continue reading A couple have issued a groveling apology after being caught having sex on a Thai beach

An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook profiles. More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on “an industrial scale” is set to be released over the next months. “Lord I thank you that America didn’t need a preacher in the Oval Office. It did not need a professional politician in the Oval … Continue reading An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica

President Trump has ordered about 4,000 more US troops to be sent to the Gulf in the face of a worsening crisis in Iraq, effectively ending his policy of withdrawing from the Middle East’s “endless wars”. Marines guarding the US embassy in Baghdad were again forced to fire tear gas yesterday as local militias and their supporters made a second attempt to storm it. Apache helicopters were deployed on New Year’s Eve, firing flares to warn off crowds outside the embassy that had earlier broken into the reception area and set fire to parts of the compound. It is thought … Continue reading President Trump has ordered about 4,000 more US troops to be sent to the Gulf in the face of a worsening crisis in Iraq

A zoo that was left devastated by a horror blaze last night has shared some good news. At first it was thought that the blaze at Krefeld Zoo in Germany – which could have been started by New Year’s lanterns – had killed all the animals in the monkey house. Apparently egged on by some of Iraq’s most powerful pro-Iranian political figures, they chanted “Down, down USA”, threw stones and waved the flag of Kataeb Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia, five of whose bases were targeted by US F-15 jets on Sunday. Some chanted the name of the Iranian supreme leader, … Continue reading A zoo that was left devastated by a horror blaze last night has shared some good news