Sales executive is slammed for complaining about Austin
Sales executive, Brett Alder, who moved his family from California to Texas is slammed for penning an op-ed in which he complained that the locals are rude and the food isn't great. Read more...
Rampaging goat ATTACKS a walker in the Blue Mountains leaving him with horrific injuries
An 'sociopathic' goat has injured a bush walker in the lower Blue Mountains NSW so seriously, the man was rushed to hospital as the goat looked on, munching grass, on Tuesday morning. Read more...
An Australia With No Google? The Bitter Fight Behind a Drastic Threat
The big tech platforms are facing a challenge unlike any other as Australia moves to make them pay for news. Read more...
Up to HALF of Covid survivors 'may still be vulnerable to South African variant'
Professor Penny Moore, from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, found in 44 survivors that 48 per cent of them (21) had no immune response to the new variant. Read more...
Is the Covid-19 Vaccine Effective Against New South African Variant?
Vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech effectively protect recipients. But in a worrying sign, they are slightly less effective against a variant found in South Africa. Read more...
Photographer Tamas Rizsavi's stunning pictures of trains in epic European landscapes
Tams Rizsavi, 29, from Hungary, who works as a locomotive engineer, has snapped stunning photos of trains in jaw-dropping landscapes in countries such as Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Read more...
Forget About a Gym. These People Pay Thousands for Personalized Workouts.
Im in for ,000 a year, a fashion consultant says. That covers a trainer, a nutritionist, an age management doctor and tons of supplements. Read more...
Your Monday Briefing
The world approaches 100 million cases. Read more...
Betting on Chess
A London bookmaker has Viswanathan Anand of India as the favorite to win the Tata Steel chess tournament when it concludes on Sunday. Read more...
Broadway star Celeste Holm's longtime Manhattan home put on the market for million by estranged son following her death
Boasting spectacular views over the city, the duplex at 88 Central Park is where the star lived for more than half a century and died this July, aged 95. Dan Dunning, whose father was Holm's third husband, told the New York Times 'She loved it because of the view of the park and the way she felt involvement with the seasons, just by looking through her windows. Read more...
Rupert Murdoch, Accepting Award, Condemns Awful Woke Orthodoxy
Mr. Murdoch of News Corp, who spoke in a video, has been relatively quiet publicly in recent years. He called conformity on social media a straitjacket on sensibility. Read more...
Gordon 39;Butch39; Stewart, Founder of Sandals Resorts, Dies at 79
Mr. Stewart turned a rundown beach hotel in Montego Bay, in his native Jamaica, into the flagship of a chain of luxury resorts. Read more...
Police Pay
An article on 14 May said that a report by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies had revealed that police are using dishonest methods to boost their pay. While the report found that police overtime spending has risen and said the matter was 'ripe for review' - the suggestion that this was caused by dishonesty or 'tricks' came from the Mail, not the report. Officers can begin claiming overtime 30 minutes after the end of a shift. The claim that officers make arrests outside normal working hours to increase their payments has been aired previously, but we should have made clear that it is conjecture. We apologise for any confusion and the article has been amended. Read more...
Xi Jinping touts coronavirus cooperation as China persists with vaccine disinformation push
Addressing the world's economic elite in Davos on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "containing the coronavirus is the most pressing task for the international community." Read more...
A whole pile of trouble! How did TVs Ruth Watson stop this familys Cornish mansion from crumbling to pieces? With drastic action and some very tough love...
Georgina Le Grice is no stranger to horror stories, but she never expected to find herself in one when her family's picturesque 18th-century property was falling apart, and there was no money to save it. Read more...
The Road to Clemency From Trump Was Closed to Most Who Sought It
Of the nearly 240 pardons and commutations he granted during his term, only 25 came through the regular Justice Department process. The rest were a product of connections, influence and money. Read more...
Inside Tenerife's eerie ghost town of Sanatorio de Abona, built to quarantine leprosy victims
Sanatorio de Abona, on the southeast coast, was designed in 1943 as a town where the sick could quarantine. But it was left half-finished after an effective leprosy treatment was developed in 1945. Read more...
No Cheating at Zabars
Metropolitan Diary An old hand at the delicatessen's waiting line caught a newly arrived customer trying to use someone's discarded ticket. Read more...
Matthew Lewis Cant Believe Hes a Romantic Lead, Either
The actor, best known as the clumsy Neville Longbottom of Harry Potter fame, is a dashing suitor in the PBS reboot of All Creatures Great and Small. Read more...