Smith was only 17 when, in October 1965, he witnessed the killing at the house Brady shared with Hindley at Hattersley, an overspill estate near Hyde outside Manchester. Although both Brady and Hindley sought to implicate him in this and four other killings, Smith always denied any involvement and insisted that his role during Evans’s murder had been that of hapless bystander. Having helped Brady
Anti-North Korea activists and North Korean defectors preparing to release balloons in Paju Credit: LEE JAE-WON, Reuters North Korean defectors are ramping up a campaign to covertly flood their former homeland with flashdrives and balloons full of news bulletins and documentaries to counter state propaganda as tensions escalate with the US over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missiles programmes. Assisted
Japanese government experts have warned that a mega-quake as large as the 2011 disaster may hit the country’s northernmost region within the next 30 years. An “impending” earthquake is forecast to strike off the Pacific coastline of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, most likely triggering a massive tsunami, within the coming three decades. The government’s Earthquake Research Committee predic
Mars was once covered in water like Earth Credit: James Moore and Jon Wade - Earth Observatory of Singapore and Oxford University With its calm water, rolling hills and fluffy clouds it could easily be Earth today. But this picture is how Mars would have looked 3.5 billion years ago. Scientists have known for some time the water once flowed freely on the Red Planet because of tell-tale valleys whi
Global losses from natural and man-made disasters have soared to $306bn (£228bn) this year, with the US the hardest-hit country. Data from reinsurer Swiss Re showed 2017’s damage tally had risen by 63pc from last year’s $188bn, with the deadly hurricane season in the US in the latter part of the year a major contributor. Wildfires in California also ramped up losses. Insured losses from disasters
A crazed 32-year-old man deliberately drove a car through a crowd at one of Melbourne’s busiest intersections in an “evil” act that left 19 people injured and raised fresh questions about the adequacy of security measures to protect pedestrians. In an horrific incident that occurred less than a year after a driver killed six people in a nearby pedestrian mall, a driver aimed his white SUV at a pe
Demonstration of the funeral drive-in service in Ueda, Japan Credit: Androniki Christodoulou for the Telegraph An illuminated sign switches to “go” and a car inches forward to draw level with a counter cut into the wall of a white one-storey building. The driver lowers the window and is greeted by a smiling woman framed in the hatch. But instead of ordering a cheeseburger and fries, he clasps his
Former U.S. soldier Charles Jenkins defected across the Demilitarised Zone to North Korea in 1965 Credit: Reuters Charles Jenkins, one of a handful of United States military personnel who defected across the Demilitarised Zone to North Korea, has died in Japan. He was 77. Originally from North Carolina, Mr Jenkins was a sergeant in the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division and serving on the border with
Kauata Vamarasi Marafono was born on the Fijian island of Rotuman on December 13 1940, one of five children. His father was a farmer who had served in the British Army in Burma during the Second World War. Fred’s early ambition was to study Veterinary Science, which he pursued first at Navuso Agricultural School, and then at college in Australia. But he came from a warrior society, and when the Br
Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver on a poster for The Last Jedi Warning: contains major spoilers Have you seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi? If you haven’t, this spoiler-filled article probably isn’t going to be for you (and trust us: Episode Eight boasts some jaw-droppingly good moments, all ripe for spoiling). But if you’re up to date with the latest events in a galaxy far, far away, here’s
EU Tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said the list should be viewed as just a first step. Credit: EPA European Union finance ministers today published a long-awaited blacklist of tax havens, naming and shaming 17 countries in the latest step in the bloc’s crackdown on tax evasion. The list was finalised at a ministers’ meeting in Brussels after 10 months of investigation and two years of strugglin
These notes fetched £5 in 2012, but values have risen since Robert Mugabe resigned Have you heard about the currency that’s rocketing in value by the minute? That everyone’s talking about and wants to own a piece of? You must be meaning Bitcoin, of course – or one of its “cryptocurrency” rivals such as Ethereum, Litecoin, Zcash, Dash or Ripple. No. I’m describing another quite different – but equa
Tom Colella was able to play golf 140 times while on shift by using a crisp packet as a “Faraday cage” A man in Australia was sacked after he relied on a 180-year-old scientific discovery to help prevent his colleagues discovering his whereabouts while he played golf during work hours. Tom Colella, a 60-year-old electrician in Perth, lost his job after an anonymous letter to his firm claimed that
Dr Riko Muranaka (left) and Trinh T Minh-ha (right) were both booked as guests on Woman's Hour Credit: BBC Woman's Hour/Genevieve Shiffrar/Berkeley University One is a Japanese doctor acclaimed for her work promoting the safety of the HPV vaccine. The other is a Vietnamese film-maker, in Britain for the opening of her retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Unfortunately, staff at BBC
Sheep in the Pyrenees where farmers say hundreds have been killed by bears Credit: Andia/ Universal Images Group Editorial A bitter dispute over bears in France's Pyrenees mountains has intensified after farmers were accused of firing "50 shots" at state experts who came to assess how many sheep the beasts had killed. Prosecutors in the Ariège, south-west France, have launched a judicial investig
Cancelled: US diplomats have quietly shelved plans for a 'working visit' by Donald Trump to Britain in the new year Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci US diplomats have dropped plans for Donald Trump to conduct a visit to Britain in January amid a war of words between the two countries’ leaders. Mr Trump, the US president, had been pencilled in for a ‘working visit’ in the first month of 2018 to formally
Is this the best way ever to quit your job? Marina Shifrin resigns with Kanye West dance video Ever wanted to quit your job? Why don't you take a leaf out of video producer Marina Shifrin's book and do it through the medium of "interpretive dance"? The 25-year-old American was in the office at 4.30am in the morning working for Next Media Animation, a Taiwanese animator, when she decided to make th
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