A TERROR plotter set out to massacre Taylor Swift fans with a car, machetes and a bomb to look “cool” like his jihadist hero, a court was told yesterday. IS follower Beran Aliyi, 21, planned to drive a VW Beetle to mow down “Swifties” who were queuing to see the star perform at a concert....

DONALD Trump claimed Iranians had admitted their regime was in a “state of collapse” yesterday as peace moves stayed deadlocked amid a global market slump. Terror state leaders offered Trump a deal to end the Gulf conflict and re-open the paralysed Strait of Hormuz – but only if he lifts the US blockade and shelves...

A HEN-DO reveller has been charged with criminal damage after scaling an historic statue of the sea god Neptune to touch his willy. Police swooped and arrested the Polish woman after she scaled the 14-foot marble statue in Florence in a pre-wedding prank. She caused an estimated £4,340-worth of damage (€5,000) to the prized fountain...

IRAN has claimed it seized two cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz and fired at a third, just hours after Donald Trump extended a ceasefire with the rogue nation. IRGC boats terrorised three commercial ships with gunfire, warning that all US vessels were “legitimate targets” after spurning Trump’s peace talks offer. Two of the...

DONALD Trump has extended the fragile Iran ceasefire at the eleventh hour after crunch talks teetered on the brink of collapse. The president is still vowing to maintain a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and has given no date when the pause in fighting will now end. In a bombshell statement, Trump said on...

DONALD Trump has warned it is "highly unlikely" that the two-week ceasefire with Iran will be extended past the Wednesday deadline. Iran has been accused of stalling peace talks with huge disagreements continuing to dog progress between both sides as the shaky ceasefire between the enemies teeters on the brink of collapse. A second round...

DONALD Trump's elite commandos seized an Iranian cargo ship after a US destroyer blew a hole in its side for trying to breach its Strait of Hormuz blockade. Dramatic night vision footage of the capture shows American helicopters surrounding the stricken vessel as hardened Marines rappel onto its deck. The US president triumphantly declared that...

PETE Hegseth mistakenly quoted an iconic scene from Pulp Fiction instead of the bible while leading a prayer at the Pentagon yesterday. The US Defence Secretary urged Christians to pray with him while discussing the rescue mission of a US fighter pilot stranded in Iran. But his appeal backfired after he misquoted a biblical verse...

DONALD Trump has insisted the Iran war is "close to over" - as the US military heaps praise on its thwarted Strait of Hormuz blockade. Several menacing ghost ships were able to slip through the net within hours of the US Navy imposing the blockade, as Tehran's tyrants strive to keep their stalling war machine...

AT LEAST four Iran-linked vessels have sneakily skirted around Donald Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade - with China blasting the siege as "dangerous and irresponsible". Trump has threatened to sink any ship that dares to defy the blockade, adding that US forces will employ “the same system of kill” used against drug trafficking boats in...

CHINA has brazenly breezed past Donald Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade - with its US-sanctioned tanker passing by American warships unchallenged. The US Navy has deployed a fearsome armada of destroyers, sonar ships and minesweepers to the 24-mile wide chokepoint, daring enemy vessels to try flouting the blockade. But today China's Rich Starry tanker - which...