Myanmar’s generals consolidated their control of the country today after staging a surgical coup that saw defacto leader Aung San Suu Kyi placed under house arrest and all powers transferred to the army. Armoured personnel carriers and soldiers were seen patrolling the streets of capital Naypyidaw, where Ms Suu Kyi is being held under house … Read more
Chelsea Flower Show will bloom… in autumn! Showpiece event gets moved from May to September when organisers hope Covid-19 will be under control The event will take place in the autumn for the first time in its 109-year history As such, the vibrant displays of mid-May will be replaced by more mellow tones The Royal … Read more
Heathrow passengers were subjected to an hour-long queue at passport control today as extra Covid checks stretched staff – as it emerged some travellers were willingly accepting non-compliance fines to avoid giving their details over. Screams of ‘get more staff’ rang out as crowds mounted to get through the secure area. Travellers flying into Britain … Read more
Visitors to Venice are being tracked via a new ‘control room’ that uses mobile phone data to log where they go, what they do, and where they’re from. City officials sitting in the £2.7million nerve-centre, which opened in September, are able to see how many people are congregating in different parts of the city, how … Read more
A Chinese official on Monday denied that Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women. The remarks followed an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government policies had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being ‘baby-making machines’. Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the … Read more
A terrifying message threatening to fly a plane into the Capitol building to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was broadcast on air traffic control frequencies on Monday afternoon. The FBI and FAA are investigating the message that was heard by multiple air traffic controllers in New York, according to CBS. The threat, delivered via a digitized voice, … Read more
Fern Britton asked her fans if COVID-19 was a ‘con to control the population’ in a Twitter debate on Sunday. The presenter, 64, said she believes that ‘COVID is a real and dangerous virus’ as she encouraged her followers to share pandemic conspiracy theories, days before England went into a third national lockdown amid spiralling … Read more
An American writer has infuriated Twitter users after she proclaimed that one of the main reasons men are attracted to short women is because they seem to be easier to dominate and control. Feminista Jones made the bold claims on Twitter this week, phrasing her tweets in a way that seemed to mock short women … Read more
Greta Thunberg has joked that her ‘evil handlers can no longer control her’ in a tongue-in-cheek tweet marking her 18th birthday. The activist sarcastically hit back at critics who claim parents secretly masterminded her rise to global notoriety by saying she is ‘free at last’ now she has turned 18. Miss Thunberg said she would be spending … Read more
Boris Johnson today boasted that the UK will have ‘prodigious’ quantities of extra fish thanks to his Brexit deal – despite admitting he had made concessions to the EU. The historic agreement struck with Brussels will mean Britain claws back 25 per cent of the bloc’s existing catch over the next five and a half … Read more