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HOROSCOPES: Try not to be too rebellious this week, Taurus

Taurus 21 APRIL-21 MAY You have played by the rules in recent weeks




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HOROSCOPES: Don't offer your advice this week, Taurus

Taurus 21 APRIL-21 MAY Abandon all attempts to interfere with other people's lives this week




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World's coldest city hits temperature of 89F - sending locals to sunbathe on a GLACIER 

Yakutsk, built on permafrost in eastern Russia and with winter temperatures nudging minus -76F, was also hotter than Yemen on the Arabian peninsula.




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How Onkaparinga council residents near Adelaide are paying $1300 an hour for sewage maintenance

Martin Bray, a councillor with the Onkaparinga local government area south of Adelaide, estimates residents are paying more than $42,000 for sewage maintenance for just 32 hours of work a year.




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Smugglers use flaming SOCKS to burn holes in security netting around prison walls to sneak in drugs

Flaming socks are being lobbed over prison fences to burn holes in security netting, and allow drones to fly in and drop off packages. The bizarre method is believed to have been first used in Leeds.




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Amazon Prime Day donates $50,000 toys to the Starlight Children's Foundation across Australia

The online giant will drop the gifts to the 10 Starlight Express Rooms in children's hospitals across Australia from Monday - and donate $5 from every toys bought to the charity.




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New Jersey cop loses job after overdosing on heroin in his patrol car while on duty

Matthew D. Ellery, 29, of Middlesex, New Jersey on Friday pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and driving while intoxicated after another officer found him overdosing on heroin in his squad car on April 7.




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Novak Djokovic goes from his thrilling men's singles victory to the Wimbledon Champions' Dinner

Novak Djokovic went straight from his thrilling men's singles victory to the Wimbledon Champions' Dinner and a dance with ladies' winner Simona Halep, who said she was 'stressed' by the thought.




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Sydney and Melbourne housing markets bounce back - another city to emerge as new property powerhouse

Median house values in the country's capital cites are set to increase during 2020, according to property research firm BIS Oxford Economics in a report released Monday.




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Sydney drug ring's massive Australia Day profits

The unravelling of a multi-million dollar drug ring run by Codie Peter Cowan (pictured) has revealed the thirst for drugs over public holiday weekends in some of Sydney's most affluent suburbs.




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Hippie parents of girl, three, who drowned in the Hawkesbury river pay tribute to her with a poem

Zeinobiyah Soetekouw had spent most of her life aboard a 33-year-old 13m yacht 'Sumbawa', travelling Australia with her parents Beccie and Steve and 10 siblings.




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Disney-owned company will set up a new headquarters in Australia offering 500 jobs

The company, founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas, will set up a branch at the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park in the city's east.




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Labor may backflip and support laws making it easier to deport violent criminal immigrants

A new law to give the government more discretionary powers to deport convicted rapists, killers, pedophiles and violent thugs out of Australia may now be backed by Labor.




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Face-tattooed 'mullet man' accused of stealing sex toys on Gold Coast

Ryan William Victor Grafton, 26, is accused of running off with almost $500 in merchandise from an Oxenford sex shop, stealing cars, and also pinching a mobile phone on the Gold Coast.




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Footy streaker at Wests Tigers and Parramatta Eels game sparks cheeky remarks from commentators

The footy fan jumped over the fence at Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta, in Sydney's west, with only minutes left in the NRL clash between Wests Tigers and Parramatta.




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Will Spiller charged with drug dealing after calling the cops when his home was raided by a gang

A young 'wannabe' gangster found himself behind bars after calling police when his Melbourne home was raided by a gang of thugs hell bent on ripping off his drug stash. 




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Boss of company behind Northern Rail is given £250,000 pay rise despite disruption

Manfred Rudhart, chief executive of British Northern Rail's owner Arriva, saw his pay boosted from £1.08million to £1.34million last year.




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Boy, 14, is fighting for his life after 'crashing electric scooter into a bus stop'

A 14-year-old boy is fighting for his life after crashing on an electric scooter. He was airlifted to hospital after the accident in Beckenham on Saturday, a day after the UK's first e-scooter fatality.




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Queen and Prince Philip lead the celebrations after 'thrilling' World Cup Final victory

The Queen and Prince Philip led the tributes to the triumphant England team after Eoin Morgan's men beat New Zealand after a tie and a tied super over at Lord's.




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Murderers are set to face much stricter monitoring for ten years after they are released from prison

At present so-called 'lifers' are supervised and forced to attend regular meetings with probation officers when freed on licence after completing their minimum jail sentence in the UK.




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A man and 10-year-old boy died after a gum tree fell onto their car along Monbulk Road in Victoria

The freak accident happened as the pair travelled along Monbulk Road outer east when their vehicle was crushed under the tree on Sunday around 5.30pm.




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Henry Byatt whose mother was Princess Diana's lady-in-waiting, drowned in Greece

Henry Byatt worked at the exclusive Peligoni Club on the island of Zakynthos when he died in August 2017. Mother Alexandra acted as Diana's lady-in-waiting from 1991 until 1997.




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Labour MPs call for Corbyn to set up independent investigation into anti-Semitism complaint handling

The Tribune group of moderate Labour MPs said they were 'shocked' by claims made in a Panorama documentary 'about the handling of antisemitism complaints'.




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Baby formula thieves are arrested and charged in Melbourne

Five people have been charged with allegedly stealing thousands of dollars' worth of baby formula in a string of robberies across Melbourne. 




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AFL legend Nicky Winmar is charged with 'attack on a taxi driver' when he was asked to pay up front

The 53-year-old former St Kilda star has been hit with four charges following the alleged attack in Docklands, inner-western Melbourne, on March 30.




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Drivers who kill are being 'let off' with five-year jail terms

In another indictment of 'soft justice' Britain, analysis of Ministry of Justice data shows the average sentence last year for causing death by dangerous driving was five years and three months.




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Slave labourers living in death-trap shanty towns and Mafia godfathers raking in millions

It is high summer in the southern Italian region of Puglia. Away from the charming coastal towns that lure 1.7 million tourists a year to the heel of Italy, the tomato harvest is about to begin.




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Family of murdered eight-months pregnant woman, 26, watch man accused of killing her in court

Aaron McKenzie stood before Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court in south London this morning after detectives charged him with killing 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle (pic) and her son Riley.




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Hunt for horrific 'grunting gimp man' in 'full black rubbery suit'

The victim, aged in her 20s, was walking in a small lane in Claverham, Somerset, when the man allegedly jumped out and charged at her 'while grunting and breathing heavily'.




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De Blasio defends his action on the Manhattan Blackout as he's criticized for being an absent mayor

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been criticized for being out of town campaigning in Iowa while Manhattan was plunged into darkness by a blackout on Saturday evening.




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Lindsey Graham doesn't care if illegals sit in border jails 'for 400 days'

Senator Lindsey Graham vowed on Sunday that the U.S. government will not allow the release of border-jumpers currently held in immigration detention facilities.




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Exaro journalist told 'fantasist' known as Nick how to hide his internet activity

Carl Beech, 51, who claimed he was abused by VIP paedophiles including former PM, met with journalists from website Exaro before going to police, Newcastle Crown Court heard.




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Family of victim who overdosed after 'being abused by Jeffrey Epstein' blame him for her death

Leigh Patrick, 29, was found dead in a sleazy West Palm Beach, Florida, motel just weeks short of her 30th birthday on May 30, 2017. She claimed to have been abused by Jeffrey Epstein.




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Streaker who sprinted onto the field revealed to be radio executive given a free ticket by the NRL

Matthew Cooper, a national account manager at Southern Cross Austereo, allegedly stripped naked and ran on the field during a game at Bankwest Stadium in western Sydney.




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Cowardly hit-and-run driver Puneet Puneet who fled to India after killing a student pushes for deal

Lawyers for Puneet Puneet say their offer to Victoria's attorney general that he will return to Australia if prosecutors guarantee a maximum two-year sentence is being 'discussed'.




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Indonesia a bigger military threat to Australia than China says futurist who predicted 9/11

Richard Hames, who warned hijacked planes could be flown into the World Trade Centre three years before it happened, believes Australia should stop viewing China as a potential enemy.




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Teenager, 19, charged with murder after 22-year-old is stabbed to death

Shackim Taylor, of Greenwich, will appear in court this morning after being charged with the murder of a 22-year-old man who was stabbed in south-east London last week.




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Fury over 'jaw-dropping' deal that allows Labour peer dubbed to swan off to Silicon Valley

Labour peer Oona King, 51, has been allowed to keep her title and continue to describe herself as a member of the House of Lords despite taking a 'leave of absence' and moving to San Francisco.




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Rapist Jason Lawrance used Dating Direct and Match.com 'lied of vasectomy before date fell pregnant'

Convicted rapist Jason Lawrance (pictured on his wedding day) appeared at Nottingham Crown Court after it was alleged that he lied about having a vasectomy to a woman he met online.




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Man in his 80s is arrested over elderly woman's murder in care home

Police believe he knew the victim, who lived at a care home in New Costessey. The man has remained in hospital under police supervision since the woman's death on Friday.




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Pictured: Family's beloved one-year-old 'little puddin' who died from head injuries

Jacob Marshall died aged one on Friday after sustaining serious head injuries at home in Liverpool and his family have since paid tribute to their 'little puddin'.




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Paramedics thought Kelly Fauvrelle was suffering pregnancy-related complications

Kelly Fauvrelle, 26, who was 33 weeks pregnant, died at the scene following the brutal attack in the early hours of Saturday, June 29.




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'Lies by fantasist Nick contained similarities to memoirs of an abuse survivor' court is told 

Testimony from Carl Beech, 51, who claimed he was abused by a gang of paedophiles in Westminster, bore a series of striking resemblances to details in a survivor's account he had read.




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Police tackle man accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint in Canterbury and he asks for cigarettes

Two men, aged 21 and 19, were accused of the attack in Canterbury, in the Sydney's south west, on July 7th.




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Kye Enright sought by police over death of Paul Rock in Laidley Queensland

Police are searching for Kye Enright, 21, who is allegedly linked to the fatal stabbing of Paul Rock in a car park outside a Queensland pub.




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Bunyamin Oksuz's widow collapses outside court after Samir Mayhoub given bail over stabbing death

Samir Mayhoub, 42, is charged with murdering a 61-year-old man in Melbourne on May 22 and on Wednesday was freed from custody with a judge citing a 'weak' prosecution case.




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Jarryd Hayne outside Bible Camp in Perth 

The ex-NRL star is a week into a six-month course at a bible college in Perth. He was spotted outside the Youth With a Mission centre in East Perth on Monday, where he studies under strict conditions.




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CHAOS! Pelosi paralyzes her own House over resolution condemning Trump tweets

The House voted Tuesday to condemn Donald Trump for 'racist' tweets that targeted the 'squad' - four progressive lawmakers who are racial minorities.




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Victim reveals how she took this picture during late-night encounter before grunting man ran away 

Abi Conroy, 23, from Somerset, said the stranger charged at her in a 'full black rubbery' outfit, 'grunting and breathing heavily', while she was taking a late-night walk.




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Coronation Street star Ken Morley in extraordinary bust up with single mother renting his house

The actor, 76, was accused of harassment when he tried to evict single mum Michelle Beattie, 40, after she claimed about the state of a property in Lancashire that she rents from him