All news by author: Oliver Harvey

HIS face puffy and his grey hair thinning, Julian Assange boards a luxury private jet and gazes from the window contemplating his freedom.Hours after

ABANDONED in a shopping bag as temperatures dipped to –4C, newborn baby Elsa appeared all alone in the world.She was wrapped only in a white towel,

HE will be fondly remembered by many as the man who recorded The Worst Pop Song of All Time.Yet Black Lace star Colin Gibb — who has died “unexpec

BRITAIN has to buckle up for “one of the most dangerous periods we have ever known”, the Prime Minister insists.In a major speech today, Rishi Sun

IN a hushed New York courtroom they were brought together again, two decades after claims of a “brief” sexual tryst.Taking the witness stand for t

ON a manicured Cambridge lawn, the ­bundle of placards at the student protest camp ­provocatively reads, “From the river to the sea, ­Palestine w

KNOWN for its ales and hearty roasts, it was a busy Sunday afternoon at the Castle Inn when a couple appeared to be leaving without paying.Kerry Ann S

SWELTERING and gasping for breath, Vietnamese parents Loc and Van held hands as they slowly suffocated to death inside a cross-Channel lorry trailer.T

DOWNING another strawberry daiquiri under the setting Tenerife sun, Ellie Taylor is incensed by the “tourists go home” graffiti daubed around the

THE stooped figure priming an IRA car bomb is instantly recognisable in the fading cine footage.For the young Provo warlord is Martin McGuinness, who

BY rights, Arsenal fan Evan Gershkovich should be savouring the Gunners’ end-of-season title race from a comfy seat at the Emirates Stadium.Instead,

HELL-BENT on murder, IRA terrorist Rose Dugdale pelted the Royal Ulster Constabulary station with bombs from a hijacked helicopter.Yet the fanatical b

COCOONED in an iron lung for more than 70 years, Paul Alexander still enjoyed a life well lived.Known as Polio Paul and paralysed from the neck down,

AS Max Verstappen triumph­antly held aloft the Bahrain Grand Prix trophy, his team boss Christian Horner might have sighed with relief.Not only had t

LANGUISHING in a bone-chilling gulag in the Arctic Circle, opposition leader Alexei Navalny bore no possible threat to tyrant Vladimir Putin.Yet — r

THE shutters are drawn and the mail uncollected at what should be Labour’s buzzing campaign HQ on Rochdale’s Oldham Road.For the party’s by-elec

SECONDS after the key turned in the lock of the MI6 safe house, cops searching for agent Gareth Williams were hit with a gust of cloying heat.It was a

IT was 4.17am and snowing outside when wedding photographer Mehmet Kaya was woken by his mother’s screams.Their apartment building was violently sha

IN the end, Ian Bailey’s drinking was suicidal.He was supposed to get in shape for a triple heart bypass, but the world’s most famous murder suspe

WHEN Palace aides came for Prince Harry, their revenge was served cold – and with clinical brutality.Some two years after the wayward Duke made wild

LIGHTS flashing and horns blaring, 3,000 tractors trundled through Hanover in Germany bringing its streets to a gridlocked standstill.Stepping down fr

IT’S a year when billions will cast a vote – yet it may prove a dark one for democracy.Around half the world’s population, a record 4billion peo

IT was a sunny Alpine morning as Michael Schumacher and his son Mick emerged, ten years ago this week, from their luxury chalet ready to take on the m

ROLLING off car ferries at Rosslare Harbour, travellers pass a sign bearing Ireland’s traditional greeting of “a hundred thousand welcomes”.Yet

WITH a famously roving eye, Queen Camilla’s ex- husband Andrew Parker Bowles has been described as “a bit of a rogue” and “very naughty with w