The eruption of a volcano in Indonesia has left 170,000 passengers stranded after hundreds of flights were cancelled. Eight airports in the country suspended flight operations on Sunday due to the volcanic ash billowing from Mount Anak Krakatau. Jakarta’s main airport Soekarno-Hatta International has grounded all aircaft until at least…
Furious Tetris maker threatens LEGAL ACTION against White House over Build the Wall game
By ALYSSA GUZMAN, US NEWS REPORTER Published: 18:21 BST, 6 September 2026 | Updated: 18:23 BST, 6 September 2026 The makers of the Russian game, Tetris, hit out at the White House for alleged copyright infringement after the Trump Administration rolled out a copycat challenge. On Thursday, the White House…
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket was captured from a German manufacturing site by the Allied forces at the end of World War II. V-2s were the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. They were designed by German…
Germany’s far-Right AfD party is set for a landslide victory, exit polls show
Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany’s far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, said her party had a clear mandate to govern as exit polls on Sunday showed them on course to win a ‘historic’ victory in a key regional election. The AfD took at least 44 percent of the vote in…
Anger over plans to quadruple asylum seekers in houses near military base set to take at least 1,250 migrants
The Home Office has been accused of ‘pouring fuel on the fire’ by looking to quadruple the number of asylum seekers placed in houses in an area that saw widespread disorder over the issue last month. Officials admitted at a meeting with county councillors in Norfolk that they want the…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Sept. 6). The spacecraft rode to low Earth orbit (LEO) atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:26 a.m. EDT (1426 GMT; 7:26 a.m. local California time). The Falcon 9’s…
Man, 20, stabbed to death after car crash as family pay tribute to his ‘zest for life’: Three men are arrested over murder
By DAVID OLASEINDE Published: 16:47 BST, 6 September 2026 | Updated: 16:50 BST, 6 September 2026 A 20-year-old man has been stabbed to death following a car crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme, with three men arrested on suspicion of murder-related offences. Jamie Evans, from Stone, was involved in a collision between his…
Green Party deputy whose policy is to ‘abolish landlords’ is a landlord
The deputy leader of the Green Party, which has vowed to abolish landlords, is reportedly a private landlord. Mothin Ali, a Leeds city councillor, is the owner of two buy-to-let properties in the Gipton area of the city that are believed to be occupied by tenants. He has served as…
Meghan mulls ‘return to charity work’ as Sussexes remain concerned by lack of security for school run following return to UK
Meghan Markle is mulling a return to charity work once Archie and Lilibet have settled into their new life, with the Sussexes ‘excited about being back’ in Britain. The Duchess of Sussex, 45, and Prince Harry, 41, are ‘still unpacking’ and ‘getting over the jet lag’ after relocating from their Montecito mansion in California more…
Hard-Right spectre looms over the EU: SUE REID investigates how anti-immigration parties stormed from the fringes and are now poised to take power for the first time since the Nazi era
The rise of the Right across Europe is being spearheaded from the German medieval city of Magdeburg, where today a nationalist party is expected to seize power for the first time since Nazism was destroyed and Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker. Our map shows that 81 years later,…