WORKERS in Germany will want to think twice before ringing in sick as they could have sick pay slashed in a new crackdown to “toughen” the workforce. It comes as employees in Germany take an average of 14.8 sick days per year - one of the highest in Europe. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s sick-leave smackdown hopes...

DONALD Trump says Iran called this morning to "work a deal" as his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz takes hold. The US president told reporters: "We've been called by the other side, they'd like to make a deal very badly, very badly." As the US blockade of the shipping lane began, Trump said negotiators...

A YOUNG woman born and bred in England has been denied entry into the UK and left stranded in Spain under a bizarre new passport rule. Natasha Cochrane De La Rosa, 26, has been blocked from entering the country despite being a dual national and flashing officials her British birth certificate. The young Brit tried...

PETER Magyar has stormed the polls to become Hungary’s next Prime Minister, ending the 16-year rule of Putin ally Victor Orban. The centre-right politician ran on an anti–Russia, pro-Europe campaign, promising to "end corruption" and build a country that works for the people. Viktor Orban was considered a disruptor at the heart of Europe, blocking aid...

THIS is the shocking moment a passenger flies into a rage and slaps an air hostess in the face. Flight attendant Ms Liu, 33, was completing her final safety checks when she accidentally bumped into Ms Zhang, 71, on a packed plane to Taiwan. The elderly woman was incensed, first screaming at the baffled flight...

THIS is the terrifying moment a biker missed death by mere seconds as he drove into the path of an oncoming train. The brazen biker ignored the lowered barriers, where other motorists were waiting, and ploughed ahead across the tracks in the city of Hanoi in Vietnam. The man appeared almost nonchalant as he finished...

A CAR-CRAZED tycoon is ready to embark on the highway to heaven after being buried with his prized luxury motor in a bizarre final death wish. The black Mercedes S450L was wrapped in a red bow and lowered into a pit beside the dead man during the businessman’s funeral in Liaoning City in north-eastern China....

THIS is the sickening moment a delivery man is caught urinating into a baby pram. The rider arrived at the building to deliver food when he spotted the unaccompanied pushchair and strolled over to investigate. He looked over his shoulder once before deciding, unprovoked, to urinate into the child’s pushchair. CCTV footage of the man’s...

A PET parrot called Bebe ventured where few of his feathered kind has ever been - bobbing underwater in a custom-made submarine. The bird went snorkelling in the Bahamas alongside his adventurous owner, Steven Lawyer, who had created a bespoke bird-sized sub which delivered oxygen through a paintball cylinder. The parrot is seen cruising along...

A POLITICIAN was expelled from her party after releasing a digitally altered image that looks nothing like her, even as the 59-year-old insists that the photo “really is me”. Patricia Reichman published the photo in a local newspaper as part of an election campaign to sit on the council of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. But...

THIS is the horrifying moment an elderly woman clings to the side of a massive skyscraper 27 floors off the ground. The 89-year-old is seen hanging on flimsy boards outside her apartment window, which is 160ft above the ground. The elderly resident had accidentally locked herself in the bathroom and left her phone in the...

THIS is the dramatic moment two women began brawling and screaming over a coffin after realising they were lovers of the same man. The shocking row erupted at the man’s wake when both women lunged at one another over the body of their dead lover - a cheating man they had unwittingly shared.  The lid...