Staring into the abyss: Inside a despairing Greek nation where families queue at soup kitchens and women threaten to jump to their deaths as job losses mount

By Ian Birrell

Last updated at 4:23 AM on 18th February 2012

When Eleni Nikolaidou agreed to…

Would-be 'bomber' in fake suicide vest given to him in FBI sting operation arrested as he tried 'to blow up U.S. Capitol'

• Moroccan-born Amine El Khalifi arrested this morning in FBI sting
• Has been living illegally in country for 12 years; lives in Alexandria, Va.
  
  
• FBI agents reportedly supplied El Khalifi with…

Will the FBI shut down the Internet on March 8 because of computer virus concerns?

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 10:49 PM on 17th February 2012

The Internet could go dark for millions of users as early as March 8 because of a virus that has…

Did Hitler father a lovechild? New claims emerge that Fuhrer had a son with Frenchwoman

By Peter Allen In Paris

Last updated at 11:02 PM on 17th February 2012

They share the same piercing gaze, defined jawline and stern mouth set off with a clipped…

Nursery worker who filmed himself raping a three-year-old pupil has prison sentence CUT 'to encourage other paedophiles to admit to their crimes'

By Katherine Faulkner

Last updated at 9:18 AM on 15th February 2012

A nursery…

Grandfather, 78, thrown in jail after going to river he was banned from for salmon poaching 43 YEARS ago

By Emma Reynolds

Last updated at 11:45 AM on 15th February 2012

A 78-year-old who was banned from a river in his…

'Lay down your arms!' Anonymous attacks US tear-gas maker

Published: 14 February, 2012, 19:37

Edited: 15 February, 2012, 00:02

Hackers have sent a sweet Valentine to an American weapons manufacturer, knocking out its website. The group says it was an act of retaliation for the company’s arming of security forces against pro-democracy protests in Egypt, Bahrain, and the US.

The…

Bulgaria refuses to ratify ACTA

Published: 15 February, 2012, 11:21

Bulgaria has become the sixth country that has refused to support the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

­The agreement is sponsored by the US and Japan, and meant to toughen intellectual property rights enforcement, but critics say limits freedom of speech on the…

Editors note:

I have always believed without a doubt, that IF we wake up the U.S military the NWO will be defeated. The U.S military is the most powerful military force in human history. Backed by the American people, you have a combined force that not even the combined military actions of NATO's 27 countries or any axis of evil could conquer. As Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto very wisely concluded:

"You cannot…

'Britain is colonialist, ludicrous and archaic': Sean Penn blasts UK for refusing to hand over Falklands to Argentina

• U.S. actor said diplomacy needed to resolve the issue
• He is 'firmly' on the side of the South Americans
  
  
• Comments came as he met Argentine President Cristina Kirchner yesterday…
  
  

New York high school's Tourette's outbreak mirrors bizarre 'Dancing Plague' in France in 1518

By Michael Zennie

Last updated at 6:42 PM on 12th February 2012

The mysterious Tourette's-like epidemic that has afflicted 21 people, mostly teenage girls from a…

Russian superlaser to be as good as H-bomb

Published: 12 February, 2012, 22:41

Russia has launched a $1.5 billion project to create a high-energy superlaser site which designers pledge will be the best in the world. Capable of igniting nuclear fusion, the facility will be used both for thermonuclear weapon and civil purposes.

The new laser device will be used for inertial confinement fusion (ICF)…

 15,000 elite Iranian special-ops 'head' to Syria

Published: 10 February, 2012, 13:41

Edited: 10 February, 2012, 20:42

The regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria is expecting up to 15,000 Iranian troops to help maintain order in the country’s provinces, a Chinese newspaper reports. Iran has yet to confirm or deny the news.

According to the central Chinese daily Renmin Ribao, the Iranian special task troops are…

Killjoy council workers saw snowmen's heads off after children take hours to build them... because they 'damage the grass'

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 8:33 AM on 9th February 2012

It's…

Gangs behind a quarter of violent crime: 4,800 'soljas' in London blamed for rapes, murders and shootings

• 158 arrests as 1,300 officers are involved in gang raids across the capital
• Gang members are stuck on a 'conveyer belt of crime', says Met Police Assistant Commissioner
  
  
• Half a kilo of heroin, crack cocaine and cash…

115 dead in a week: Criminals go on rampage as Brazil police strike

'The right to protest is guaranteed but not the right to offend, to prey on, or to threaten people,' state governor says

By Amy Robach, Kevin Monahan and Christina Caron

NBC News

LeROY, N.Y. -- The mystery illness now producing Tourette’s-like symptoms in a more than a dozen girls from upstate New York is also affecting a 36-year-old who is experiencing the same tics as the teens.

Nurse practitioner Marge…