Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez becomes the latest Premier League star to be targeted by thieves

Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez becomes the latest Premier League star to be targeted by thieves as ‘he has three luxury watches stolen in £500,000 raid on his penthouse’ Man City winger Riyad Mahrez has had three luxury watches stolen from home The £500,000 haul included a prized Richard Mille timepiece as well as cash Thieves … Read more

China claims Hong Kong national security law ‘protects’ the city’s freedom as politicians brawl

Chinese state media has claimed a controversial national security law bill that could ban people in Hong Kong from inciting and participating in protests will ‘protect’ instead of restricting the freedom of the semi-autonomous city. ‘By adding greater national security protection, Hong Kong’s status as a special administrative region will be consolidated,’ wrote the Global … Read more

Sarah Silverman is all smiles as she joins in New York City’s nightly salute to healthcare workers

Sarah Silverman is all smiles as she joins in New York City’s nightly salute to frontline healthcare workers By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 03:13 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 03:27 BST, 15 May 2020 She’s been banging a saucepan every night for weeks now as part of the daily salute to frontline healthcare … Read more

Sadiq Khan uses Covid crisis to roll-out ‘fast-track’ transformation of city’s roads

Sadiq Khan has used the coronavirus lockdown to roll out a drastic new layout of the Capital’s roads as he warned there will be ‘no swift return to normal’ across the transport network. The Mayor of London and TfL have today unveiled their ‘London Streetspace’ programme which will transform London’s streets to accommodate a possible ten-fold … Read more

Moscow’s real coronavirus infection toll is more than 250,000 says the city’s mayor

Moscow’s real coronavirus infection toll is more than 250,000 says the city’s mayor despite official figures saying the figure is 57,300 Moscow mayor says the infection rate is far higher than officials have recorded  If he’s right, 2 per cent of Moscow’s population would be infected with Covid-10  Before the mayor’s revelation Russia had reported … Read more

Sadiq Khan’s ‘new normal’: London Mayor offers bleak glimpse into city’s future

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has admitted that bars, restaurants and social spaces in the capital could remain closed for the foreseeable future, even if lockdown restrictions are eased, while warning that Londoners will have to face a bleak ‘new normal’.  The mayor added that people living in the city will only be able to have … Read more

New York City’s heart attack spike could’ve been early sign of COVID-19

A spike in heart attacks in mid-February could have been an early sign that the coronavirus was starting to spread in New York City before it became the epicenter for the illness in mid-March. Data from New York shows that there was an uptick in 911 calls for cardiac arrest in Brooklyn and Queens in … Read more

Inmate gouges eye out at New York City’s Rikers Island jail in front of corrections officers

Inmate gouges his eye out at New York City’s Rikers Island jail in front of horrified corrections officers and does it again after doctors reinserted it An inmate gouged his eye out in front horrified corrections officers at New York City’s Rikers Island jail over the weekend The unidentified inmate from the Anna M. Kross … Read more

New York City’s coronavirus dead could be temporarily buried on old Cold War missile island

Coronavirus dead across New York could be temporarily buried on the city’s famous Hart Island, where unclaimed and unidentified bodies are buried by prison inmates in mass graves, as morgues across the city continue to overflow and the death toll ticks up.   Hart Island is ordinarily used to bury unidentified or unclaimed bodies. It was … Read more

Spooky photos by NYC photographer during coronavirus lockdown reveal city’s desolate streets

The soul of New York City is on the ropes. The statewide mandate shutting down all nonessential businesses and ordering residents to stay indoors turned the ‘City That Never Sleeps’ into an overnight ghost town. New York based photographer Phil Penman took to the desolate streets to capture a portrait of the city on lockdown. … Read more