US urged to boost oil exports to Britain to stop the Iran fuel crisis wrecking family holidays

By GABRIEL MILLARD-CLOTHIER, POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 22:02 BST, 2 May 2026 | Updated: 22:09 BST, 2 May 2026 Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has urged the US to boost oil exports to Britain to stop the Iran fuel crisis wrecking family holidays. Addressing President Trump in an exclusive interview with the…

ICE press for deportation of illegal immigrant child sex predator who was freed from jail early after abusing boy

By ALYSSA GUZMAN, US NEWS REPORTER Published: 21:31 BST, 2 May 2026 | Updated: 21:39 BST, 2 May 2026 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is requesting a Romanian immigrant who was convicted of sexually abusing a middle-school boy be deported after she was released early from jail.  Rebeca Fratila-Ilies remains…

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Christine McGuinness finds new love with Olympic boxer Nicola

Christine McGuiness proudly declared earlier this week that she’s a ‘five-star lesbian’ on the look out for a wife – and it seems she may have already caught someone’s eye. As I can disclose the former Housewives of Cheshire star, 38, who was married to TV Paddy McGuinness for 11…

Horror in Portland as ‘disgruntled former employee’ crashes into athletics club in car ‘packed with EXPLOSIVES’

By SOPHIE GABLE, US REPORTER Published: 20:13 BST, 2 May 2026 | Updated: 20:32 BST, 2 May 2026 A horror scene unfolded overnight in Oregon after a driver crashed into an athletic club and caught fire, before authorities found evidence of an explosive device inside.  An unidentified driver, believed to be…

Met Police officers shared photos of dead bodies on WhatsApp using their personal phones – with accused PC saying it was ‘common practice’

Metropolitan Police officers shared photos of dead bodies on WhatsApp taken on their personal phones, as one of the accused claimed it was ‘common practice’. Officers said personal phones were routinely used to capture evidence, including pictures of people who had died, due to the poor photographic quality of standard-issue…

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 208 — Lander, Lander, Who’s Got a Lander

On Episode 208 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space.com’s Mike Wall about the risks and realities of the new space race to the moon. Lander, lander… who’s got a lander? With NASA planning orbital tests of the Artemis landers in 2027 and a…

Revealed: It was the NSPCC that first introduced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to Peter Mandelson – as charity’s fundraising director admits he regrets it now

A former NSPCC director says he has ‘sleepless nights’ about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Peter Mandelson working together on one of the charity’s biggest ever child abuse campaigns in between visits to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking for the first time the children’s charity’s former director of fundraising Giles Pegram, who…

The rat ‘apocalypse’ forcing residents in a northwestern state to catch vermin with their bare hands

Night after night, Doug Perry and his wife Barbara were plagued by the sound of rats munching on cables and scurrying around their Idaho home as they tried to sleep. The couple got so fed up, they filled their house with sticky glue pads and traps and set up a Ring…

Why the FDA rejected a ‘breakthrough’ melanoma drug

For patients whose skin cancer doesn’t respond to traditional treatments, a new drug called RP1 has been a lifeline—at least for those who can get into a clinical trial. The drug has shown so much promise in such trials that, at the end of 2024, its development was placed on…

SpaceX launching 45 satellites to orbit early May 3: Watch it live

SpaceX will launch 45 satellites to orbit from California early Sunday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday during a 37-minute window that opens at 2:59 a.m. EDT (0659 GMT; 11:59…