Author: Darren Smith

A man filmed in the Calais migrant camp has openly admitted on camera that he intends to cross to Britain not to work but to join a gang — stating his plans to sell drugs, fight, stab and shoot people upon arrival in the United Kingdom. The 18-second clip, which has been reported by GB News and the Daily Express and spread widely across social media, shows the man speaking directly to an interviewer in a selfie-style format, filmed outdoors in the Calais area. When asked whether he intends to work on a cannabis farm, he dismisses the suggestion immediately.…

A 22-year-old man has drowned in one of Colombia’s most popular tourist reservoirs after allegedly being forced overboard from a party boat as onlookers shouted “drown him” — with not a single person jumping in to save him as the vessel continued along its route. Alexander Avendaño Varela boarded a party boat at the Peñol-Guatapé Reservoir in Guatapé on 24 May for what should have been a celebration. What followed was captured on footage that has since spread widely across social media and prompted a criminal investigation. The video shows an altercation breaking out on deck among a large group…

In the history of Australian rugby league, no single dressing room has produced a more extraordinary catalogue of crime than the 1975 Newtown Jets — a team whose roster included a man who would become one of Queensland’s most notorious armed robbers, another who rotted in a Bangkok prison for drug smuggling, and a third whose wife’s disappearance became one of Australia’s most gripping murder cases. The Jets, a foundation club of the NRL who had just rebranded from the Bluebags two years earlier, fielded a competitive side in 1975. What nobody could have known at the time was that…

Bill Maher has turned on the musicians who pulled out of a concert series celebrating America’s 250th birthday, accusing them of handing Donald Trump a political gift and making Democrats look like they “don’t really love America” — even as the artists insist they were deceived about the event’s partisan nature. The HBO host delivered his verdict on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, following the withdrawal of Poison, Morris Day, Young MC, the Commodores and Martina McBride from the Freedom 250 concert series, which was intended to mark the United States’ 250th anniversary across multiple states throughout…

Millions of Facebook users in the United States are set to receive a second payment from the landmark $725 million class-action settlement stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal — with payouts beginning on Tuesday 9 June and continuing for four weeks. Around $100 million has remained unclaimed in the settlement fund since the first round of payments went out in September 2025, and a California court approved a second distribution last month. The settlement administrator estimates that more than 15 million people will share in the remaining money, which amounts to approximately $95 million after $5 million in administrative…

A 20-year-old McDonald’s employee is fighting through excruciating pain in a California hospital burn unit after a colleague doused him in boiling oil during a shift, leaving him with second-degree burns across his face, neck, arm and back in an attack that has shocked his community and prompted a fundraising appeal approaching $40,000. Jacob Smith was working at a McDonald’s branch in Yuba City, Northern California, when the attack took place. His colleague, identified by police as Jalani Bluett, 23, threw hot oil over him before fleeing the restaurant ahead of police arriving at the scene. Jacob was rushed to…

A 17-year-old soccer goalkeeper who had just graduated from high school and secured a place at college to pursue his dream of playing the sport he loved was killed when a car plummeted 25 feet from a San Francisco overpass in the early hours of the morning — just days after what should have been one of the proudest milestones of his life. Lenin Homer Silva, known to his family as Len, had graduated from Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California on 28 May and committed to playing soccer for Skyline College in San Bruno. Two days later, in…

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck the southern Philippines, killing at least four people, injuring more than 200 others and setting off a tsunami that sent metre-high waves crashing onto nearby coastlines — forcing thousands to flee to higher ground and prompting tsunami warnings across the region. The quake struck at 7.37am local time on Monday, centred approximately 13 kilometres southwest of General Santos, a city of more than 700,000 people that serves as a major hub for tuna processing and commerce in the Mindanao region. The earthquake, caused by movement in the Cotabato Trench at a depth of…

A Gulfstream private jet has exploded into a towering fireball after skidding across a runway during an emergency landing attempt in the Dominican Republic, with two pilots feared dead in one of the most dramatic aviation disasters to be captured on camera in recent years. Footage of the crash at La Romana International Airport shows the Gulfstream jet touching down on its rear wheels before violently bouncing and erupting into a massive orange fireball that engulfed the aircraft within seconds. The mangled wreckage was left strewn across the runway as emergency crews rushed to the scene, with operations at the…

One of Australia’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested at a rural Greek farmhouse after nearly three decades on the run — undone not by a painstaking international manhunt but by a routine roadside police check during which he allegedly gave false information and then confessed he was wanted in Australia. James Dalamangas, 56, was detained on Sunday by Greek authorities at a property in Aigialeia, in central Greece’s Achaia region, where he had been living under several aliases and working as a farmer since fleeing Australia in 1999. He is accused of the fatal stabbing of father-of-two George Giannopoulos…