All news by author: Tim Hanlon

A snow bomb has been predicted to hit the UK over the coming days during a wintry blast where temperatures could dive to -6C and now the Met Office has given its verdict

Rapist Met Police officer David Carrick's attempt to commit suicide while at Belmarsh prison was a "self-pitying reaction" and was not due to "remorse" for his victims, said a judge during his sentencing

A teenager, now 16, has admitted he was "very stupid and reckless" after causing a fire at a barn in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, that led to £1million of damage, and he received a fine of just £61

A three-man team is hoping to raise £50,000 for charity by surviving for a week on Rockall, 260 miles west of the Outer Hebrides and the weather conditions will be key for success

Florida has been revealed as the area which saw the most shark attacks during 2022 with a total of 16, but overall incidents have equalled a 10-year-low, according to a new study

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has not been seen in public for 35 days - the second longest period ever while he has been in power - ahead of a major military parade this week

Simone Malik, from Bradford, a portrait artist with a special talent for facial recognition, believes that specific facial features can prove whether Vladimir Putin has been using a body double

Momo, a white-handed gibbon, shocked staff at a Nagasaki zoo after becoming pregnant as she was living in her own cage and was not in contact with any other male monkey

Video footage of an apparent explosion over Billings, in Montana, where the Chinese spy balloon was last seen has gone viral but officials have denied there has been an incident in the area

The UK is set for a mild weekend before cold weather returns due to air moving in from high pressure over the continent and then heavy snow is forecast to fall 30 centimetres deep

A planet called Wolf 1069 b has been found 31 light years away from Earth which has the same mass as our planet and is in the "habitable zone" due to its temperature

Elon Musk has been found not guilty by a jury of deceiving Tesla investors with tweets in 2018 that cost them billions, according to estimates, as he claimed he had funding to take the company private

John Michael Musbach, 31, from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot where he paid $20,000 in Bitcoin to have a 13-year-old girl killed after having exchanged naked images with her

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reportedly warned the West that something major is being planned to "gain the world's attention" on the first anniversary of the Ukraine invasion

A possible Chinese spy balloon has been spotted flying over the United States which is being tracked by its military with the Pentagon choosing against shooting it down due to risk to life

A 66-year-old woman was found alive and breathing at a funeral parlour after being sent in a body bag from a care home in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was declared dead

An unopened first-generation iPhone that was given as a gift in 2007 to Karen Green, in the US, has gone on sale at auction and is expected to fetch $50,000 or more

Aldi has been named as the UK's cheapest supermarket during the month of January where a single shop could see a saving of £26 compared to the most expensive, according to consumer watchdog Which

Dallas Zoo has offered a reward of $25,000 for information after two monkeys and a leopard are believed to have been freed from their enclosures and a vulture was found dead

Janessa Brazil has become the face of thousands of fake social media accounts which have been used to take advantage of gullible internet users who send over money in the hope of romance

Ukrainian civilians have been forced to walk across minefields in the occupied Zaporizhzhya region of the country to find safe routes by the Russian army, Kyiv has claimed

A man has been charged with the murder of Natalie McNally, who was 15 weeks pregnant and stabbed at her home in Lurgan, Co Armagh, last December, Northern Ireland police said

Wesley Ruiz, was executed in Texas for the 2007 murder of a Dallas police officer and in his final words he told his family "don't worry about me, I'm ready to fly"

Wesley Ruiz, 43, who shot and killed Dallas policeman Mark Nix in 2007, has been executed in Texas as a battle continues to rage in the state about the ability to use out of date drugs for lethal injections

Images show an angry chimp at Nanning Zoo, in China, throwing a water bottle at a girl, who had been filming him. The bottle hit her in the eye and left her bleeding