Author: Darren Smith

A Bristol mother has described the moment an unknown woman allegedly attempted to pull her one-year-old daughter from a taxi, leaving the toddler and her great-grandmother deeply shaken by the ordeal. Anea Rodriguez Fawcett said her daughter Remaya, who is nearly two, was travelling with her great-grandmother after the older woman’s car broke down outside a bookmakers on Stapleton Road. Staff inside called a taxi for them, and as they boarded the vehicle the incident unfolded. According to Anea, as her nan placed Remaya into the taxi from one side, the door on the opposite side opened and an unknown…

A Colombian military transport aircraft carrying more than 100 soldiers has crashed in the south of the country, the defence ministry has confirmed, with the country’s president expressing hope that there were no fatalities. The aircraft, reported to be a Lockheed Martin Hercules C-130, came down near the town of Puerto Leguízamo in Putumayo province, close to the Colombian-Peruvian border. Local radio reported that 110 soldiers were on board at the time of the incident. Defence Minister Pedro Sánchez confirmed the plane had suffered “a tragic accident while it was taking off from Puerto Leguízamo, transporting troops of our security…

A prominent Orthodox rabbi has caused significant controversy after delivering a speech in which he claimed that the world’s most powerful nations — including the United States, Germany, France, England, Russia and China — would be brought to their knees by God as punishment for centuries of persecution of the Jewish people. Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser, a senior lecturer at Aish HaTorah and instructor at the Possible You seminar, made the remarks in a video that has since circulated widely online, drawing condemnation from a broad range of commentators. In the address, Glaser stated: “The most powerful nations in the…

Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who transformed OnlyFans into one of the world’s most recognisable subscription platforms, has died at the age of 43 following a prolonged illness. The company announced his passing on Monday, with a spokesperson confirming he had “passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer” and asking that his family’s privacy be respected during the period of mourning. Radvinsky acquired Fenix International, the parent company of OnlyFans, in 2018 — two years after the platform had been founded by British father and son duo Guy and Tim Stokely. He held the position of majority shareholder…

Ian Huntley, who murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, will be cremated without a funeral service and his ashes scattered in a location that will be kept secret, it has been revealed. Huntley, 52, died on 7 March at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where he had been taken after allegedly being attacked with a metal bar in a workshop at HMP Frankland on 20 February. He was placed in an induced coma following surgery for a severe head wound and a second operation on a broken jaw, with doctors giving him a five per cent…

The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada regional flight have been killed after their aircraft struck a fire truck on the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York late on Sunday night, in a collision that has left the airport closed and triggered a major emergency response. Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia confirmed the deaths of the two crew members, while a Port Authority sergeant and officer who were in the emergency vehicle sustained broken limbs and were taken to hospital in a stable condition. All 76 passengers and the remaining four crew members on board survived the…

Donald Trump has announced he is holding back US military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days, saying he has entered into negotiations with Tehran aimed at bringing a full end to hostilities in the Middle East. The US President posted the announcement on Truth Social, saying the pause in military action had been ordered following what he described as “good and productive conversations” with Iran. Trump said he had instructed the US military to stand down from planned strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure while talks continued, with the five-day window conditional on…

An Iran-linked militant group has claimed responsibility for a pre-dawn arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances in Golders Green, north London, as the Metropolitan Police investigate the incident as an antisemitic hate crime. The vehicles, belonging to Hatzolah — a volunteer-run emergency service that has provided free medical care to London’s Jewish community since 1979 — were set alight outside the Machzike Hadath Synagogue on Monday at around 1.45am. Explosions heard at the scene are believed to have been caused by gas canisters stored on board the vehicles. The London Fire Brigade confirmed multiple cylinders exploded, with the force…

Manchester City supporters travelling to Wembley for the Carabao Cup final faced a dramatic start to their day after a double-decker coach carrying fans caught fire on the M6 Toll motorway, forcing the closure of the southbound carriageway and causing significant delays across the route. All passengers and the driver were safely evacuated from the Ridleys coach before firefighters arrived to tackle the blaze, which broke out between junctions T3 and T2 on the M6 Toll southbound near Birmingham. Footage of the burning vehicle spread rapidly on social media, with onlookers watching from a nearby hillside as flames engulfed the…

Former Chelsea and England captain John Terry has found himself at the centre of a political row after apparently expressing support for a proposal to ban the burqa in the UK, posted by the founder of a newly launched political party. Terry responded to an Instagram post by Rupert Lowe — the former Reform UK MP who recently established a new party called Restore Britain — with three clapping emojis and an England flag. The post in question showed a London Underground station featuring Bengali signage, with Lowe arguing that all London stations should display English-only text and that Restore…