Former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey, who is bidding to take Theresa May’s crown as Tory leader, was excruciatingly snubbed by her former TV colleague Lorraine Kelly during a live broadcast. Good Morning Britain co-presenter Susanna Reid, with McVey in vision via video link, asked Kelly in her studio: “Do you remember Esther McVey…
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No Djok! Dominic Thiem knocks out Novak Djokovic to reach French Open final
Number four seed Dominic Thiem battled past Serbian tennis superstar Novak Djokovic in a marathon rain-affected French Open semi-final at Roland Garros to book his place in Sunday’s final. Austria’s Thiem responded the better of the two when the pair returned to the court on Saturday to resume their semi-final clash and, after a second…
Zarif calls for Europe to normalize economic ties with Iran
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday called for European leaders to normalize trade ties with the Islamic Republic under the existing nuclear agreement despite US sanctions, or their commitments will not be met. “The Europeans and other signatories of the JCPOA should normalize economic ties with Iran. We will halt our commitments or…
Portugal beat Netherlands to win inaugural UEFA Nations League title
There was joy for European champions Portugal as they won the inaugural UEFA Nations League title thanks to a 1-0 victory against the Netherlands in Porto. A second-half strike from the edge of the box by Goncalo Guedes was enough to separate the two sides, as the Dutch failed to cap their impressive recent resurgence…
Kazakhstan’s election: Tokayev leads first vote in 3 decades without ‘nation’s father’ Nazarbaev
Kazakhstan is undergoing a change of leadership after the resignation of its head Nursultan Nazarbayev. The election came to an end with more than 70% of votes cast for his successor Tokayev, according to the preliminary results. Kazakhstan, a large Central Asian country located between Russia and China, which is a major energy player in…
Venezuela to use ruble in trade with Russia to bypass US sanctions
The Russian currency will replace the dollar in transactions between the two countries, Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela’s vice president of the economy, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “Unilateral American sanctions are preventing us from using US dollars to settle,” the official told Sputnik on Saturday, the last day of the annual business…
Faulty microwave triggers FLOODING at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport (VIDEOS)
Microwave cuisine can spoil one’s day, but seldom at the scale of what happened at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. An entire terminal was flooded with water after smoke from an oven triggered the airport’s fire-suppression system. The unnatural disaster hit the airport’s Terminal B on Sunday, when the fire alarm went off and the firefighting system…
American Airlines extends ban on Boeing 737 Max flights till September
American Airlines has extended the grounding of its entire fleet of Boeing 737 Max jets until September 3, the company said on Sunday. The planes were previously banned from serving passengers through mid-August. Click Here: Sports Water Bottles The airline “remains confident” that the jets will be cleared for flight once Boeing rolls out software…
‘Don’t do drugs; you could end up a Tory!’ Twitter gleeful over top Conservatives’ confessions
A slew of Tories competing to take over the top job from Theresa May have admitted to taking drugs ranging from cannabis to cocaine, prompting a torrent of jibes and criticism on Twitter. The recent admissions include Michael Gove saying he took cocaine at several social events before he entered politics and Andrea Leadsom confessing…
25 injured as tourist bus collides with car in Germany
A collision between a tourist bus and a car in the German state of Thuringia has injured 25 people, most of whom are children. Police say the accident occurred on Friday at around 3:50pm local time, according to local paper Thueringer Allgemeine. The tourist bus was carrying 49 schoolchildren between 16 and 18 years old,…