The West is demanding answers from Moscow today after the ‘despicable and cowardly’ nerve agent attack on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. Britain said the Kremlin ‘has a clear case to answer’ while NATO demanded a ‘full and transparent’ investigation after a German military lab found that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the Soviet-era weapon used … Read more
A thorn in the finger is an everyday injury for most gardeners — and for tree surgeon Lindsay MacPherson it’s more routine than most. So when he snagged his finger on a blackthorn tree he was chopping, he naturally thought little of it. But that little thorn caused an infection that left him in hospital … Read more
Russia today rejected claims that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma at a German hospital. Navalny’s friends have pointed the finger at Putin after the opposition leader fell ill on a flight in Siberia and was airlifted to Berlin in a critical condition. Kremlin … Read more
Coo-dunnit? Tour de France of pigeon racing is rocked after 11 birds are found dead in suspected poisoning on the eve of the event The annual Barcelona 2020 pigeon race has been struck by the scandal 11 pigeons belonging to French owners found dead ahead of tomorrow’s race Early autopsy has revealed motoring fluid in … Read more
The NYPD are investigating a potential hate crime, in the suspected poisoning of three officers at a New York Shake Shack. The officers – members of the Bronx’s 42nd Precinct assigned to protest detail – had fallen sick after consuming food from the Shake Shack on Broadway and Fulton Street in downtown Manhattan Friday night at … Read more
Former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter have started a new life in a secret overseas location, according to reports today. Sergei Skripal, 68, and his daughter Yulia, 36, are thought to have fled from Britain more than two years after they were targeted in a chemical poisoning in their Salisbury, Wiltshire, home. It … Read more