For the past five years, my life has been governed by a simple rule. No matter how often people told me how good it was, I was never, ever going to watch The Crown. Why? Not because I have anything against Netflix, the show’s creator Peter Morgan, or fine actors like Matt Smith and Claire … Read more
A company which made a faulty cooker that killed up to 18 people failed to test it with the grill door closed, an inquest heard today. Maureen Cook, 47, and her parents Audrey, 86, and Alfred Cook, 90, died in their static caravan home in Camborne, Cornwall, in 2013. Kevin Branton, 32, and Richard Smith, 30, … Read more
Nine family members die from food poisoning after eating noodle soup at a breakfast gathering A family of 12 in northeast China’s Heilongjiang met for breakfast on October 5 Nine of them fell ill hours after eating noodles made by fermented corn flour The homemade dish had reportedly been kept in a freezer for a year … Read more
Skripal probe hackers unmasked: Six Russians accused of trying to infiltrate Salisbury poisoning probe are named Hackers who tried to infiltrate Salisbury investigation have been unmasked They were charged in the US over a series of cyber-attacks across the world Indictment accuses group of trying to undermine UK efforts to hold Moscow to account By … Read more
‘Vladimir Putin’s chef’ is given travel ban as senior Kremlin officials are hit with sanctions by Britain and the EU after Alexei Navalny poisoning ‘Putin’s chef’ Yevgeniy Prigozhin has been hit with sanctions by Britain and EU Prigozhin was sanctioned over ‘significant foreign mercenary activity’ in Libya Six other Russians with links to Alexei Navalny’s poisoning … Read more
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has shown his shaking hands as he continues to recover from a suspected novichok poisoning in August. Navalny made the comments during his first video appearance since being discharged from a Berlin hospital, recorded just six days after he was released. ‘My hands shake. If I were to drink water from … Read more
Chinese kindergarten teacher is sentenced to death for poisoning 25 children ‘in revenge’ after having an argument with her colleague Wang Yun was arrested in Jiaozuo, Henan province after the incident last year The teacher was found poisoning 25 kindergarten children, one of whom died She put sodium nitrite in the students’ breakfast after a fallout … Read more
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is back up and walking after treatment for novichok nerve agent poisoning at Berlin hospital Vladimir Putin’s political opponent shared a photo walking down hospital stairs He can now breathe independently after being taken off a ventilator this week Navalny gave an update on his recovery: ‘This is a clear … Read more
Mother-of-three, 33, found on the loo beside empty bottle of wine in Pontin’s chalet had died of alcohol poisoning – hours after police were called out due to her drinking Police called to chalet of Gwynedd mother-of-three thought to be drunk just hours before she died of alcohol abuse Sioned Catherine Evans, 33, found with four … Read more
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his security forces had intercepted German calls showing that Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s poisoning had been faked. Lukashenko told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday that the call between Berlin and Warsaw showed that the incident was a ‘falsification’. ‘There was no poisoning of … Read more