Baggage handlers to strike at Easter — by JIM SALTY1 on Thursday, 29 March 2012

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  Baggage handlers at Stansted Airport are to strike over Easter in a row over pay, the GMB union announced today. The move follows an over...

Shawn Tyson guilty of murdering two Britons in Florida — by JIM SALTY1 on Wednesday, 28 March 2012

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  An American teenager has been found guilty of the first degree murder of two British tourists in Florida. James Cooper, 25, from Warwicks...

French judges seek arrest of Equatorial Guinea leader's son — by JIM SALTY1 on Tuesday, 27 March 2012

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  Two French judges sought an international arrest warrant for the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on money l...

JetBlue plane in emergency landing after captain's apparent breakdown — by JIM SALTY1 on Tuesday, 27 March 2012

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The captain of a JetBlue plane screamed "They're going to take us down!" and rambled about al-Qaida as passengers pinned him t...

Cannabis: Legal high — by JIM SALTY1 on Tuesday, 27 March 2012

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  CANNABOOST plant food is one of the best selling products at the Hydroexpress hydroponics store in Stirchley, a working-class part of Birm...

Cat-Sized Rats Invade Florida — by JIM SALTY1 on Tuesday, 27 March 2012

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  Cat-sized rats are causing trouble in the Florida keys. A pack of Gambian giant pouched rats have been breeding in the keys despite offici...

Facebook App Lets You Add Enemies Online — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 26 March 2012

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  Forget friending. A new Facebook app allows users of the social network to identify and share people, places and things as “enemies” for a...

Russian shot in UK was due to give evidence — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 26 March 2012

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  Russian banker shot five times close to London's financial district had been days away from giving evidence to an investigation into t...

socially disruptive narcissists More Facebook Friends You Have, the More Unhappy You Are — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 26 March 2012

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  A  study has discovered a direct link between the number of friends you have on Facebook and how much of a “socially disruptive narcissist...

Celebrity addicts: Who dies, who survives, and why — by JIM SALTY1 on Sunday, 25 March 2012

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  Singer Whitney Houston's death last month from accidental drowning from the effects of cocaine use and heart disease throws bright lig...

Iberia Express takes off on Sunday — by JIM SALTY1 on Sunday, 25 March 2012

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  The new low-cost airline, Iberia Express, takes off on Sunday with launch prices from 25 €. The airline, which has been the focus of prot...

Ryanair adds six Euro surcharge to tickets purchased in Spain — by JIM SALTY1 on Sunday, 25 March 2012

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Ryanair is to introduce a six Euro surcharge on all flights purchased in Spain from April 15. This will appear as ‘coste de gestión’ (manage...

As the star of the Fast and the Furious film franchise, it is safe to say that Vin Diesel is a man who likes his boys' toys. — by JIM SALTY1 on Saturday, 24 March 2012

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So his choice in on-set accommodation doesn't come as much as a surprise. The actor has allowed cameras into his jaw-dropping $1.1millio...

Cheap drugs abroad could pay for break — by JIM SALTY1 on Saturday, 24 March 2012

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HOLIDAYMAKERS can pay for the cost of a break in the sun by buying their prescription drugs while abroad. Legally they can purchase their p...

Sex is a multibillion-dollar industry in Spain, with colorfully lit brothels staffed mainly by poor immigrant women from Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe lining highways throughout the country — by JIM SALTY1 on Saturday, 24 March 2012

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Pimps Arrested in Spain for 'Barcoding' Women Police in Spain arrested 22 alleged pimps who purportedly tattooed women with bar code...

Russian banker shot six times had testified over murder plot — by JIM SALTY1 on Saturday, 24 March 2012

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The banker was left for dead by a lone gunman as he returned to his home in Canary Wharf on Tuesday evening. Scotland Yard detectives are in...

Serbian mafia 'put gangster in mincer and ate him for lunch' — by JIM SALTY1 on Friday, 23 March 2012

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Gang that assassinated Serbian prime minister admits making 'face mask' out of member's skin A GANGSTER who helped orchestrate t...

Spain moves toward freedom of information law — by JIM SALTY1 on Friday, 23 March 2012

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Freedom of information in Spain came one step nearer Friday after the recently-elected government agreed to introduce a bill in response to ...

Spain's Iberia starts low-cost airline — by JIM SALTY1 on Friday, 23 March 2012

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Spanish carrier Iberia on Friday launched a new low-cost airline, Iberia Express, which aims to claim a stake in the highly competitive no-f...

Russian banker shooting: 'It looks like a contract hit' — by JIM SALTY1 on Friday, 23 March 2012

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A former Russian banker is in a critical condition in hospital after he was shot several times in east London. German Gorbuntsov was shot b...

Brian Regan: Brookside star to cocaine addict — by JIM SALTY1 on Friday, 23 March 2012

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  Brian Regan found fame playing loveable rogue Terry Sullivan in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside. In the show's 1980s heyday, his c...

Study Suggests Link Between Narcissism And Facebook — by JIM SALTY1 on Friday, 23 March 2012

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There may be a direct link between the number of friends you have on Facebook and just how much of a “socially disruptive” narcissist you ar...

Minimum price for alcohol introduced in bid to tackle Britain's binge crisis — by JIM SALTY1 on Thursday, 22 March 2012

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The cost of a pint of beer will be at least 80p and a pint of strong cider would be at least £1.60. Mr Cameron said he was trying to tackle...

Whitney Houston drowned after cocaine use, says coroner — by JIM SALTY1 on Thursday, 22 March 2012

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Whitney Houston's death was caused by accidental drowning, but drug abuse and heart disease were also factors, a coroner has ruled. Cor...

Two police officers were injured in a shoot-out in Toulouse on Wednesday with a gunman claiming links to al Qaeda — by JIM SALTY1 on Wednesday, 21 March 2012

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Two police officers were injured in a shoot-out in Toulouse on Wednesday with a gunman claiming links to al Qaeda and who is believed to res...

Shoot-Out In Raid Sees Police Injured — by JIM SALTY1 on Tuesday, 20 March 2012

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  French police are engaged in a siege with a man they are reportedly "confident" was responsible for the killings of seven people...

Two police officers were injured in a shoot-out in a raid on a house in Toulouse to arrest suspects in the killings of three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in southwest France. — by JIM SALTY1 on Tuesday, 20 March 2012

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     The source said the raid began at 3am local time (2am GMT) and was ongoing, but did not provide further details.     French news chann...

800 'jet-set' extras needed — by JIM SALTY1 on Tuesday, 20 March 2012

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  Oscar-nominated director Danièle Thompson is looking for 800 men and women to play Saint Tropez’s jet-set elite in her new feature-length ...

18 Best Places to Retire Overseas — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 19 March 2012

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When choosing a place to spend your retirement years, the cost of living is important. But it is only one consideration. The ideal retiremen...

At least four people, including three children, were killed, when a man on a scooter opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse in southwestern France — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 19 March 2012

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At least four people, including three children, were killed, when a man on a scooter opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse in sout...

More and more footballers are going bankrupt despite Premier League wages now averaging £1.47 million a year, — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 19 March 2012

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  More and more footballers are going bankrupt despite Premier League wages now averaging £1.47 million a year, experts have claimed.  Mark ...

TOWIE to shoot summer special in Marbella — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 19 March 2012

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  Sam Faiers and the rest of her TOWIE castmates are apparently jetting off to Spain to film a special this summer. The reality TV stars wi...

Could abolishing tax havens solve Africa's financing needs? — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 19 March 2012

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  The past month, the spotlight has been on James Ibori, the governor of Nigeria's Delta state from 1999 to 2007, who pleaded guilty at ...

Spain's Unicaja, Caja Espana savings banks merge — by JIM SALTY1 on Monday, 19 March 2012

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Spanish regional savings banks Unicaja and Caja Espana have merged following the government's recent requirement that banks raise substa...

German taxpayer would be obliged to subsidise the wages of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. — by JIM SALTY1 on Sunday, 18 March 2012

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  When faced with the prospect of the Spanish government waiving the collective €752m debt the nation's football clubs owe to the countr...