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Queen star Brian May, 72, hits bum note as he is sent to hospital after tearing his buttock muscle

The Queen guitarist told fans the damage to his gluteus maximus left him in constant agony and unable to walk. May broke the news on Instagram yesterday with a selfie of him in a surgical mask.




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Fury as 4,000 chickens are thrown into a pit and drowned or buried alive in Thailand 

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Angry locals filmed the birds being cruelly thrown into a waterlogged hole by staff at an animal quarantine centre in Songkhla.




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Team GB hockey player Sam Ward chasing an Olympic dream despite a horrific injury three months ago

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: Sam Ward tilts his head forward to show a scar running all the way across his scalp down to the bottom of his left ear. 'I had my face off,' he explains.




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'Drunk' woman is arrested by anti-terror police after 'trying to storm cockpit' at Heathrow

Officers were called to Heathrow at 4.29am this morning just after the aeroplane landed. Police confirmed they had arrested a woman on suspicion of being drunk on board.




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Fury as Prince Charles and Camilla get coronavirus tests ahead of NHS staff despite no symptoms

Charles was tested in Aberdeen despite only suffering from mild symptoms over the weekend. In the UK tests are supposed to only be given to people so ill they have to go into hospital.




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Prince Charles, 71, is seen up and about despite battling coronavirus as he joins applause for NHS

The Prince of Wales was seen applauding the nation's health workers by the window of Birkhall House at the Balmoral estate where he is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.




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Prince Charles opens a temporary hospital at Cardiff's Principality Stadium

Prince Charles paid tribute to NHS workers in the 'frontline of the struggle' when he opened a giant hospital at Cardiff's Principality Stadium today.




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Fitness coaches says she's treat 'like a prisoner' despite being locked up in a five star hotel 

Jess Pinili flew into Perth from Bali on Sunday after the government introduced new quarantine rules for all international arrivals. She must now spend 14 days quarantined in an upmarket hotel.




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Husband stopped from seeing his wife before she died of COVID-19 - despite having the virus himself

Two people aged in their 70s were the latest to die from COVID-19 in Western Australia, taking the state's toll to six and the nation's to 48 on Tuesday.




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Lorraine Lewis was hospitalised for coronavirus in and wrongly labelled 'do not resuscitate'

Lorraine Lewis and her partner Stephen Taylor had returned to Australia on a mercy flight after sailing around the Italian coast on a Costa Victoria cruise.




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Stabbing victim flown to hospital while fighting for life after attack in shopping centre rampage

The victim is in a critical but stable condition at Royal Perth Hospital after being transported from the state's north by the Royal Flying Doctor Service.




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Justin Narrier jailed after stabbing nurse, 55, at Royal Perth Hospital with makeshift shiv

Justin Trent Narrier, 31, attacked the 55-year-old nurse during her night shift at the Royal Perth Hospital around 1.50am on May 12 last year.




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A&E medic has coronavirus: Virus fear grips UK as NHS hospital worker is among eight with deadly bug

The medic treated a 'small number' of patients at Worthing Hospital in West Sussex (pictured) on February 4 and 5 before they became unwell and 'self-isolated'.




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Couple host wedding ceremony using chocolate bunnies after they were forced to cancel nupitals

Mark Burton, 32, and Frankie Lewis, 28, who live in Thailand, were due to get married in the UK next week. After their wedding was postponed, they threw a party at home with the 115 treats.




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Man infected with coronavirus dies after spitting at rail passenger in Thailand

Anan Sahoh, 56, was found slumped on the passenger train on Monday after he was earlier seen 'coughing and vomiting'. CCTV footage from Bangkok showed him spitting in a man's face.




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Newborn baby wears a face shield in Bangkok hospital

The baby was strapped into a visor to keep it safe from infection as it lay on a bed at the BNH hospital in the Thai capital.




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Woman with fever handcuffed on train after 'refusing to wear a face mask' and 'spitting' at others

Mukda Juengthanasomboon, 53, boarded the train in northeastern Thailand. She 'became angry' after she was asked to wear a face mask as she appeared to be sick with a fever.




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Lewis Hamilton does not expect knighthood despite landing sixth F1 championship

Former Labour cabinet minister Lord Hain has written to Downing Street calling for Hamilton to be rewarded with an upgrade on the MBE he received after he won his maiden championship in 2008.




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Pope Francis prays against sin of 'self-pity' in weekly Mass

Pope Francis gave his homily as he spoke via webcam from the chapel of his Vatican residence Tuesday, urging Christians not to indulge in the 'evil' of self pity but to instead make positive changes.




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Zantac is STILL on the shelves in the US despite worldwide recalls

Despite global recalls, brand-name Zantac is sold by a different company - Sanofi - in the US, and neither the drug maker or the FDA have issued a recall of the popular heartburn medication.




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Vile moment a crazed shopper SPITS and COUGHS on a Walmart cashier

The woman was paying for her items at an outlet in Yreka, California last week and reportedly became enraged after accusing the cashier of overcharging her.




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Lawyer for evangelical megachurch defying social distancing orders is in hospital with coronvairus

Jeff Wittenbrink, 59, who represents the Life Tabernacle Church, is now on oxygen at Baton Rogue General, struggling to breathe after coming down with the virus.




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El Paso shooting victim dies in hospital nine months after the rampage that left 23 dead at Walmart

Guillermo 'Memo' Garcia who was shot in the August 3 attack targeting Latinos in an El Paso Walmart has died after nine months in the hospital, raising the death toll from the attack to 23.




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Syrian-born refugee becomes a hospital cleaner after 'England welcomed me with open arms'

Hassan Akkad, who fled to the UK after he was imprisoned and tortured in Syria, is working at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London after deciding he had to do something to help.




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Australian Open chiefs are ADAMANT play will go on despite 'worst in the world' air quality

Maria Sharapova and Eugenie Bouchard saw their matches on Tuesday overshadowed by health concerns caused by 'hazardous' levels of smoke in the air from nearby bushfires.




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Coronavirus UK: Father's warning as Boy, 1, rushed to hospital

Peter Jones, from Devon, has warned people to stay inside after his one-year-old boy contracted coronavirus and was hospitalised.




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Somali basketball star, 54, dies of coronavirus in London hospital

Bana Ali, 54, was a Transport for London engineer and spent nearly a month in intensive care at the Royal Free Hospital before passing away on April 28.




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'Coronavirus SAVED my life!': Asthma-sufferer, 36, learns she has fatal heart condition in hospital

Angela Schlegel from London was taken to hospital with coronavirus. She was diagnosed with the potentially fatal eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA)




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Child, five, is in hospital after falling from a window in North London 

The child was injured after falling from the window in Maygrove Road in Kilburn, London on Tuesday afternoon and was taken to hospital. Pictured: The crew trapped inside the basketball court.




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One of Marine Le Pen's teenage daughters is hospitalised after attack

The woman, 19, was approached by two men outside a bowling alley in the western suburb of Nanterre at 2am on Friday. They molested her before attacking both her and her male cousin.




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Laura Trott refuses to go to war with Great Britain team-mates, despite lining up against them for Commonwealth Games

The double Olympic champion won team pursuit gold at London 2012 alongside Dani King and Joanna Rowsell, but all three will be lining up for England in the individual pursuit in Glasgow.




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Pope Francis REFUSES bullet-proof vest despite ISIS Christmas address threats

ISIS (left) has released propaganda videos threatening to invade Rome and Pope Francis is considered a specific target. But the pontiff (pictured right) says he's 'not afraid'.




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ISIS Bataclan massacre victims still in hospital a year after Paris attacks

Fanatics gunned down 90 revellers at the Paris venue on November 13 last year as they were watching a performance by the US band Eagles of Death Metal.




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Gran left in Leeds hospital corridor for six days with spinal fracture

MBE nurse Enid Stevens was taken to A&E in St James's Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with a spinal fracture. She was wheeled out into a corridor and left there for six days.




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Sophie Wessex meets patients at Leeds Children's Hospital

Prince Edward's wife, née Rhys-Jones, embraced the warmer weather in a midnight blue fit-and-flare dress featuring a pretty daisy pattern during her visit to Yorkshire on Monday.




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Leeds vet banned for life for keeping dogs in a 'pitch black dungeon'

Vet Gary Samuel, 49, was banned from keeping animals for life and struck off after inspectors found 24 dogs and eight cats to starve in his cellar at his surgery in Leeds, west Yorkshire.




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A chance for Yala Enki to shine in the Unibet Grand National Trial despite Storm Dennis winds

Fingers crossed Storm Dennis doesn't prove the ultimate menace and Yala Enki (Haydock, nap, 3.15) is given the chance to shine in the Unibet Grand National Trial today.




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Military helicopters land at Grand National racecourse Aintree to stock hospital with equipment

Soldiers were pictured alongside the aircraft this afternoon and then seen scoping out the site, which is less than a mile from Aintree Hospital in Merseyside.




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Pin-sharp satire from a modern-day Dorothy Parker. What a pity it curdles into agitprop...

With this, her first novel, Naoise Dolan proves she is a wonderfully sharp, comic writer, adept at making wisecracks in the caustic, knock-'em-off, knock-'em-down tradition of Dorothy Parker




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Northeasten University student is deported to Iran DESPITE judge's order

Shahab Dehghani, 24, an Iranian economics student at Northeastern University, was denied entry to the US and ordered to immediately fly back to his native country.




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University women's team 'kicked Odion Ighalo off their training pitch'

Odion Ighalo angered a student football team while he was participating in a solo training session over the winter break, according to The Sun. 




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The killer in Manila: Philippine capital city is locked down to stop coronavirus spread 

President Rodrigo Duterte announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Manila to arrest the spread of coronavirus on Thursday.




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Labor party calls to relax visa restrictions for foreign nurses to keep them working in hospitals

There are around 1,000 foreign qualified nurses in Australia who are unable to work in Australian hospitals because of sanctions on working holiday visas.




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Jamal Lewis called up to the Nothern Ireland squad despite elbow injury for Norwich City

Norwich full-back Jamal Lewis has been included in the Northern Ireland squad for the their games against Netherlands and Crech Republic despite suffering an elbow injury.




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Woman in her 70s is still in hospital after crash which delayed Jeremy Clarkson

A group of cars said to have been racing through west London crashed into the pensioners' car in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing a man in his 70s and seriously injuring his wife.




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Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman 'still wants Man United takeover' despite Newcastle links

Super rich Saudi Arabia Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly remains very keen to pull off a takeover of Manchester United.




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Louis Bacon and Moore Capital - an apology

We are happy to confirm for the record that there is no substance whatsoever to the suggestion that Mr Bacon or Moore Capital are guilty of any unethical behaviour.




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Louis Bacon and Moore Capital - an apology

In an article ‘A hedge fund Godfather…’ of September 4 2010, we suggested that Mr Bacon was complicit in unethical behaviour within his hedge fund business, Moore Capital, and elsewhere, and as a result he is not the kind of person, and Moore Capital not the kind of business, that the Conservative Party should consider accepting financial donations from.




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'I should end up dead': 19-year-old pleads for capital punishment after murdering Good Samaritan while high on PCP

Jason Jones says that he doesn't deserve to live after shooting dead the man who tried to prevent his Dallas crime spree.




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Victoria Beckham furloughs 30 workers at her fashion label - despite having a £335 million fortune

The former Spice Girl, is to claim what could amount to tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to pay a quarter of her employees under the Government's job retention scheme.