A BRITISH PoW is suing the Russian state in a landmark legal case after he was starved, beaten and electrocuted by enemy troops. Ex-soldier Shaun Pinner, 52, is set to take his case to the High Court in London after he was tortured at a black site in 2022. Brave Shaun, a former soldier with...

A BRITISH conductor knocked a £1million violin out of the hands of a top soloist after swinging his arms too vigorously during a concerto. Maestro Matthew Halls looked on in horror after clipping the Guadagnini instrument owned by Elina Vähälä with his baton. She let out a scream and held her hands to her face...

A KEEN Brit angler has turned traitor to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Bradley Townsend was groomed online into joining Vladimir Putin’s troops by fellow mercenaries Aiden Minnis and Ben Stimson. Townsend, who has no military experience and spent his days fishing for carp, rang his worried family earlier this week to say he was...

DONALD Trump is pumping his warships full of "the best weapons ever made" ready to blitz Iran if peace talks fall through, claiming the ruthless regime "can't be trusted". The US president said "we'll know soon" if a long-term deal can be struck at the crunch talks, after he declared a two-week pause in the...

IRAN has threatened its "fragile truce" with the US and Israel by shutting the Strait of Hormuz just hours into a two-week ceasefire agreement. And the White House said Iran's original 10-point plan had been "thrown in the garbage" by Donald Trump, adding that the "workable basis" for a long-term peace deal was different to...

ISRAELI air strikes yesterday killed Iran’s spy chief Majid Khademi — in another major blow to the regime. The spook entered the role several months ago, following the killing of his predecessor, Mohammad Kazemi, by Israel during June’s 12-day war. A separate strike in Tehran yesterday killed another senior Iranian henchman, Yazdan Mir — known...