Moment drunk man wielding metal pole is Tasered by police at Birmingham train station

Moment drunk man wielding metal pole is Tasered by police at Birmingham train station after England’s win against Germany Footage shows a man waving around a bollard before being Tasered by an officer He then collapses behind row of chairs as officers rush to handcuff the suspect Clip, filmed on phone, has been viewed over … Read more

Boy, seven, tied to pole and covered in honey to attract BEES ‘as punishment for stealing’ 

Boy, seven, is tied to a wooden pole and covered in honey to attract BEES by his Egyptian father ‘as punishment for stealing’ Egyptian boy, seven, was allegedly tied to a pole by his father as a punishment Father is accused of tying son to pole and covering him in honey to attract bees It … Read more

Inside Putin’s huge military base at the North Pole as Moscow tells the West ‘this is our land’

Russia is building up its military in a remote Arctic airbase prime with missiles, radar and a runway as the Kremlin seeks to assert its dominance in the disputed oil-rich area which it declared this week it ‘our land’. The Nagurskoye airbase in the Franz Josef Land archipelago was built in the 1950s as a … Read more

Inside Putin’s huge military base at the North Pole as Moscow tells the West ‘this is our land’

Russia is building up its military in a remote Arctic airbase prime with missiles, radar and a runway as the Kremlin seeks to assert its dominance in the disputed oil-rich area which it declared this week it ‘our land’. The Nagurskoye airbase in the Franz Josef Land archipelago was built in the 1950s as a … Read more

Sir Ernest Shackleton had to return home from the South Pole in 1901 due to a bout of ‘beriberi’

Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton had to return home after voyaging close to the South Pole in 1901 due to a bout of ‘beriberi’ and not scurvy, a new study claims. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) looked at the health of other explorers on the famed expedition, and those on earlier and similar expeditions, … Read more

Incredible moment sea captain fights off killer whales with a pole in Strait of Gibraltar

This is the incredible moment a sea captain fought off killer whales with a pole and screamed at them to ‘p**s off’ after they attacked his boat.   Captain Antonio Busse, 40, shouted ‘get off the f***ing boat’ as a pod of orcas surrounded his vessel in the waters of the Gibraltar Strait. The predators had … Read more

Lawyer completes solo ski to South Pole despite doctors trying to evacuate her twice due to injury

A lawyer who completed a solo trek to the South Pole in 44 days has told how she twice turned down doctors’ pleas to evacuate her after suffering an agonising injury 150 miles before the end. Jenny Wordsworth, 34, from London, undertook the 715-mile expedition from the Antarctic coastline between December 2019 and January 2020, … Read more

Pole dancer, 27, killed herself after lockdown stopped her competing, inquest hears 

Jessica Norris, 27, from Bolton, had battled depression since she was teenager One of Britain’s top pole dancers killed herself after being prevented from competing during the coronavirus lockdown, an inquest has heard. Two time winner of Miss Pole Dance UK Jessica Norris, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, had battled depression since she was a teenager but … Read more

Weather: Sudden stratospheric warming at the North Pole may trigger another ‘Beast from the East’

Sudden stratospheric warming event around the North Pole could trigger another ‘Beast from the East’, scientists warn British researchers studied stratospheric warming events from the last 60 years During these episodes, temperatures in the stratosphere can rise by 90°F in days This disturbance can travel downwards and cause cooling shifts in the jet stream The team worked … Read more

Weather: Sudden stratospheric warming at the North Pole may trigger another ‘Beast from the East’

Sudden stratospheric warming event around the North Pole could trigger another ‘Beast from the East’, scientists warn British researchers studied stratospheric warming events from the last 60 years During these episodes, temperatures in the stratosphere can rise by 90°F in days This disturbance can travel downwards and cause cooling shifts in the jet stream The team worked … Read more