By MELISSA KOENIG, US REPORTER Published: 03:14 BST, 5 July 2026 | Updated: 03:35 BST, 5 July 2026 New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge erupted in flames during the Macy’s July 4 fireworks extravaganza on Saturday. Video posted online showed a flume of smoke billowing into the sky from a ball…
Dan Andrews is dealt a political blow almost three years since he stepped down as premier – as councils refuse to carry out his new law
By PAUL SHAPIRO, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 02:46 BST, 5 July 2026 | Updated: 02:58 BST, 5 July 2026 The deadline for a controversial recycling law introduced by former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has been labelled ‘all but dead’ as councils refuse to adopt it. Andrews’ order that all…
Co-founder of $8BILLION company is fired for breaking strict work-from-home rules that HE put in place
The co-founder of an $8 billion asset management firm claimed he was ousted from the company for failing to comply with its return-to-office policy – which he helped implement. William Nieporte, 57, ran Bramshill Investments with his high school friends, Art DeGaetano and Stephen Selver, for nearly a decade before they…
You wait ages for a heatwave, then three turn up at once! UK set to sizzle for THIRD time this summer, with temperatures expected to top out at 34C next week
By PADRAIC FLANAGAN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published: 01:48 BST, 5 July 2026 | Updated: 01:56 BST, 5 July 2026 After Britain’s dreary winter perhaps we should have been more cautious in our prayers for sunshine – as the third heatwave of summer will strike next week. Temperatures in…
Stranger, my Friend – Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Divers on the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise documenting the stones underwater off the Sylter Aussenriff in the North Sea. The stones have been placed there in 2008 by Greenpeace to protect the marine sanctuary from destructive fishing and gravel extraction. © Uli Kunz / Greenpeace Back in 1978, my…
Woman is charged with murder after young boy, 4, is found dead with significant arm injuries
By PAUL SHAPIRO, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 23:33 BST, 4 July 2026 | Updated: 01:29 BST, 5 July 2026 A woman has been charged with murder after a four-year-old boy was found dead on the Central Coast. A 32-year-old woman arrived at Wyong Police Station at 4.40pm on Saturday.…
The transgender burlesque dancer tasked with shaping the future of the Girl Guides – and the zealots who STILL won’t accept them restricting membership to biological women
Dancing on stage in knee-high boots, PVC underwear and posing provocatively with a riding crop, Paula Southin, a transgender activist, performs an erotic routine using the stage name Violette Hue in a lewd online video. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Southin, who was born a man, is also…
America 250 revelers forced to EVACUATE out of DC’s National Mall hours ahead of Trump’s July 4 speech and fireworks spectacle
Independence Day guests were forced to evacuate from Washington DC’s National Mall on America’s 250th anniversary ahead of Donald Trump’s extravagant July 4 festivities due to extreme heat and thunderstorms. Trump is scheduled to speak at 9.45pm tonight, followed by what is being billed as the world’s largest fireworks display…
The Labour MPs and ministers keeping quiet about their private education (including one who went to Eton)
For anyone invited to join the hallowed pages of Who’s Who – as all MPs are – it is standard practice to include your education. Not necessarily, though, for some Labour politicians who went to private school. For at a time when the Government is hammering the sector with tax…
Andy Burnham is facing vital mine-clearing Gulf mission in his first days as PM – ‘but Starmer won’t brief him’
By GLEN OWEN Published: 23:10 BST, 4 July 2026 | Updated: 23:25 BST, 4 July 2026 Sir Keir Starmer has cut Andy Burnham out of the planning for British military action in the Gulf, defence sources have claimed –even though operations are expected to start during Mr Burnham’s first days…