Coronavirus mass graves in Brazil shown in aerial shots as country records 21,116 deaths

Hundreds of mass graves have been dug in Brazil as the country recorded 21,116 deaths from coronavirus yesterday. Brazil has had more than 330,000 coronavirus infections, making it the third worst affected country in the world and the worst affected in South America. It briefly overtook Russia as the world’s number two hotspot for Covid-19 … Read more

Attention-seeking kitten slams owners’s laptop screen shut to stop them from watching TV 

Adorable attention-seeking kitten slams owners’s laptop screen shut to stop them from watching TV A kitten in Vladivostok, Russia,  found an ingenious way to get its owners to play It jumps on top of its owners’s laptop screen to stop them from watching TV A video from April 24 shows the kitten’s attention-seeking scheme in action … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is in fake news ‘arms race’ against Russia, Iran and China

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is in a fake news ‘arms race’ against Russia, Iran and China as he bids to stop electoral interference and coronavirus misinformation The comments came during Zuckerberg’s first broadcast interview in five years He is ‘pretty confident’ Facebook will ‘protect the integrity’ of the US election   Facebook has been fighting campaigns … Read more

Britain First’s Paul Golding is supported by Tommy Robinson as he arrives at court on terror charge

The leader of far-right political group Britain First has claimed police were ‘completely unjustified’ in using terrorism legislation to ask for access to his mobile phone after he returned from a trip to Russia. Paul Golding, 38, was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers at Heathrow Airport in October last year on his way back from … Read more

Britain First’s Paul Golding is supported by Tommy Robinson as he arrives at court for terror trial

Britain First leader Paul Golding arrives at court supported by Tommy Robinson to face terror trial for refusing to give police his phone’s PIN code at Heathrow The 38-year-old was pictured making victory symbols alongside the EDL founder He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London ahead of half-day trial Golding denied a terrorism offence … Read more

Russian bankers who lived life of luxury in UK having riches seized after racking up £730m debts

Two Russian bankers, who lived in luxury in England, face having their assets seized by financial investigators after they were declared the second-biggest bankrupts in British history.  Financial investigators are searching to claim former Russia‘s National Bank Trust (NBT) shareholders Ilya Yurov and Nikolay Fetisov’s assets. This comes after they were accused of siphoning off … Read more

Oldest fossilized salamander ever discovered lived 230 million years ago in Russia

Oldest fossilized salamander ever discovered lived 230 million years ago in Russia and provides ‘a missing link’ in the evolution of frogs Researchers working in Russia have uncovered the oldest salamander fossil The one-inch specimen live 230 million years ago on both land and in water The fossil is 90 million years older than those … Read more