DONALD Trump has fiercely rebuffed Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz - instead doubling down on his naval stranglehold of the key trade route. The US president earlier threatened the crumbling regime with a gun-toting AI picture while declaring "no more Mr Nice Guy". Now, Trump has chucked out Tehran's latest offering, insisting...

MISSING Brit model and travel influencer Rachel Kerr has been found and is back with family, her loved ones have confirmed. The 31-year-old checked out of her hotel after a night of partying before turning off her phone and vanishing for five days – leaving her family “extremely worried”. But cousin Claire Hill announced today:...

A SUSPECTED terrorist has pleaded guilty to plotting an attack on a Taylor Swift concert - at which he reportedly planned to detonate explosives hidden in a Red Bull can. Beran Aliyi, 21, entered the guilty plea nearly two years after he plotted to massacre fans of the superstar singer. He faces up to 20...

A GRIEVING mother who lost her husband and son in the Titan submarine disaster has said their bodies were returned as "slush" in "shoeboxes". Christine Dawood recalled waiting nine months to get the remains of her loved ones back after the doomed sub imploded almost three years ago, killing its five passengers instantly. Amongst the...

A SANCTIONED Russian billionaire's £370million superyacht has brazenly sailed through the volatile Strait of Hormuz at the heart of the Iran war. The floating palace, linked to oligarch Alexey Mordashov, mysteriously slipped through the world's most dangerous shipping lane, where tensions remain sky-high. Shipping data shows the colossal 142-metre vessel Nord slipped out of Dubai...

FALKLANDERS should go back to Britain, Argentina's vice president said in an outrageous insult to its pro-UK natives - amid Donald Trump's threat to review ownership. The US president's bombshell plan to punish Britain has shaken the hornet's nest in Buenos Aires and emboldened the country's jingoistic bully leader, Javier Milei. The madcap president said...

A HIPPIE energy healer has been jailed for laundering Calabrian mafia cocaine money in Dubai. Delina Stevenson, 30, will be locked up for at least eight months after she funnelled drug money through her Sydney sex work business. She pleaded guilty to one count of recklessly dealing with money at the risk of it becoming...

IRAN has offered Donald Trump a deal to re-open the Strait of Hormuz and end the war - but also put negotiations for their nuclear ambitions on the back burner, reports say. It comes as the regime continues its chokehold on the key waterway - with Washington and Tehran failing to reach a breakthrough during...

KIM Jong-un has flaunted destroyed Western weapons at a twisted museum opening - as he vowed to prop up Vladimir Putin in his "sacred" invasion of Ukraine. The North Korean dictator has mercilessly thrown thousands of underprepared troops into Russia's meatgrinder, whom he honoured at the unveiling of a Pyongyang memorial. Kremlin Defence Minister Andrey...

THE Secret Service agent shot during the botched Donald Trump murder plot was saved when the bullet miraculously deflected off his phone, according to a police report. Suspected gunman Cole Tomas Allen's siblings have meanwhile revealed that chilling red flags were missed before he allegedly stormed the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The 31-year-old teacher will...

UNMARKED vans parked up near military bases and major airports could be used to launch devastating attacks on British soil, top defence experts have warned. As cheap, commercially available drones change the future of warfare, it's feared weapons hidden inside trucks or shipping containers will be remotely harnessed to target UK infrastructure - and attackers...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the world, crawling with cockroaches and patrolled by radioactive mutant wolves. Chernobyl has captured the public imagination unlike any other 20th-century disaster. The forbidden wasteland - hostile even to maggots and fleas -...