A PACKED passenger plane caught fire as it landed - forcing a mass evacuation of nearly 300 people on board and an airport shutdown. The Turkish Airlines flight, heading from Istanbul to Kathmandu, was set ablaze after a spark went off in the jet's landing gear, authorities said. A spokesperson for Nepal's civil aviation agency...

NORTH Korea will automatically launch a nuclear attack if Kim Jong-un is ever assassinated, Pyongyang's tyrannical constitution now states. The terrifying last resort policy has been introduced in the wake of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's assassination by US-Israeli strikes in Iran. The chilling revision states that retaliatory attacks will be launched in the event that the...

A GANG of armed robbers who took two hostages in a terrifying bank raid in Germany have vanished without leaving a trace. SWAT teams stormed the bank shortly after the reported heist before releasing the captured pair - but the perpetrators were nowhere to be seen. Helicopters were scrambled to aid the search for the...

A BRITISH holidaymaker is in intensive care after plunging from a hotel balcony in the Ibizan party resort of San Antonio. The tourist, 24, was rushed to Can Misses hospital around midnight - with health sources claiming he suffered multiple traumatic injuries. A well-placed source said: “He is in intensive care. He’s stable but serious....

IRAN has attacked Dubai as Donald Trump claims the overnight Strait of Hormuz clash was "just a love tap" - and that the ceasefire is still holding. Naval destroyers launched rockets at each other in the key waterway overnight, with Washington and Tehran blaming each other for the provocation. Explosions later rocked Iranian ports after...

THE dad of a Brit found dead on a Malaga beach last weekend has gone missing - as the expert who helped the search for tragic Jay Slater shares an appeal. Stephan Kiss, 69, has not been seen or heard from since his 25-year-old son was found dead on Misericordia Beach, Costa del Sol, on...

AT least three people have been killed after Indonesia's Mount Dukono erupted - spewing ash as high as six miles into the sky. Search crews raced to evacuate find 20 missing survivors before rushing 15 of them to hospital, local police said. Police confirmed two foreigners and a local resident died, while at least 15...

A KNIFEMAN who allegedly stabbed a woman to death in Barcelona shouted "Allahu is great" before the suspected attack, reports say. It comes after a harrowing image of the knife-wielding assailant prowling the streets just moments after the alleged assault was revealed. Spanish police have not confirmed the suspect's nationality - but local media reports...

VLADIMIR Putin has been hiding in bunkers for weeks over fears he will be toppled, reports say - as Ukraine struck a Moscow apartment days before a major military parade. The paranoid Russian tyrant has retreated to an underground unit - and security has been massively ramped amid mounting speculation of a coup. On Monday,...

A SEETHING mob crowds around a young mum doused in gasoline as she is thrown into blazing pit and burned alive after being accused of using black magic. It sounds like a medieval tale from ages past - but it is one of thousands of witch hunt cases which still happen to this day, and...

DONALD Trump has threatened to "blow off Iran from the face of earth" if they attack US vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The US President told Fox News about its plans after he deployed 15,000 troops to escort stranded vessels through the key shipping route as part of "Project Freedom." He described the blockade...

A CRUISE ship with 23 Brits trapped on board could sail to Tenerife after a suspected rat-borne virus outbreak. Passengers and crew have been banned from leaving the MV Hondius - where three people have died and a Brit was left fighting for his life. Six suspected cases of hantavirus - the rat-borne virus that...