It was the teenager's sudden silence online that alerted her family back home to the fact that something was very wrong in paradise.

It was in the middle of the Iberian peninsula blackout last month when police knocked on Christian Steffen's front door.

David Beattie is a man who will be forever haunted by 'what ifs'...

Johnnie Norman, 35, secretly asked hotel staff to put 30 assorted bags of crisps on the bed while they were out to surprise his crisp-loving wife - but were left stunned by what happened next.

Wearing a dark suit, Donald Trump Jr proudly strode along the streets of Portsmouth, arms linked with his Palm Beach socialite girlfriend Bettina Anderson, earlier this evening.

At an upcoming event with Donald Trump, guests aren't being rewarded for services to the US or charity, but for services to the Trump private bank account

Call it diplomacy by bromance. Donald Trump deployed it in the Middle East this week and made more progress in a few days than conventional diplomacy has made in decades.

Two hero firefighters, Martyn Sadler (left), 38, Jennie Logan and David Chester, 57, who died in a fire that engulfed a former RAF base in Bicester yesterday have been pictured for the first time.

Disturbing bodyworn camera footage shows Tracy Boateng, 27, lean in multiple times as she makes the inappropriate contact with Vincent Ojo at HMP Pentonville.

Mrs Badenoch told the Welsh Conservative conference that politics across the world was becoming ever more volatile.

There is something distasteful about the way supporters of the Assisted Dying Bill are trying to bulldoze this chaotic piece of legislation through Parliament.

Drivers face a hike of up to 75 per cent in parking fines which would see them treated more harshly than shoplifters.

The architect of the legislation, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, also faced anger for leaving the chamber during the debate, and for suddenly accepting a new safeguard

Ministers declared at the start of April that a controversial deal to hand the Indian Ocean territory to China ally Mauritius was being finalised.

More than four in ten think the song is perfect for launching into with friends, family - or even strangers in the pub.

A survey found just 45 per cent of the party faithful now have a favourable view of their leader, after a sharp drop of more than 17 points in the past month.

The King's personal fortune has increased by £30 million to £640 million in the past year - making him twice as wealthy as his late mother Queen Elizabeth, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

Draft guidance published by the Tories in late 2023 urged caution when children ask to change their names or uniform and said parents should not be kept in the dark.

It was quite the contrast to his humiliation of Sir Keir Starmer on live TV just a day earlier.

Frederick Forsyth's life and career are the stuff of legend. No one, after all, will surpass his record of being accepted by the RAF aged just 17, thereafter becoming its youngest ever jet pilot.

Keir Starmer last night opened the door to a dramatic U-turn on the winter fuel allowance.

A spokesman for the leader of the Catholic Church said the new Pontiff was hopeful he could provide an 'opening for peace'.

The youngster unexpectedly produced the WW2 explosive device at Osmaston CofE Primary School in Ashbourne, Derbyshire - causing shock among staff.

Two teenagers have been arrested after a pair of kittens 'were tortured and killed' in an 'incredibly distressing' attack. on Ickenham Road, Ruislip, north west London on Saturday , May 3.

In a burst of fire and smoke, Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon launched a specially-modified Sea Viper missile at an incoming high-speed target, emulating threats seen globally.

A group of Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters have been spared jail terms at their sentencing hearing at Isleworth Crown Court.

Learning that her beloved son Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz had enjoyed a cosy celebrity soiree in Montecito with Meghan and Harry must have been a dagger through Victoria Beckham's heart.

Sweden's SAPO security service had detained the man on Sunday and kept him for questioning until Wednesday.

The CrossCountry route was much loved by train fans and ran in one direction southbound, leaving Aberdeen at 8.20am before arriving in Penzance more than 13 hours later at 9.31pm.

Tanya Bardsley posted video footage of her football manager husband Phil Bardsley talking to police outside their home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in the early hours of this morning.

The young woman, 23, was found unconscious and not breathing at a home in Brisbane's west.

Caleb - the son of Kansas state Representative Scott Schwab - was enjoying a day trip with his family after they were tempted by free admission for Kansas elected officials and their kin on Elected Official Day.

After seven months in a notorious Indonesian prison, a Melbourne couple at the centre of sweeping Bali sex raids will face deportation to Australia.

Shocking data reveals how ten local authorities praised for their environmental action are forking out huge sums of taxpayers' cash to pay for chauffeurs and minicabs.

The five-time Paralympic gold medallist , will look at why she might have to genetically engineer a foetus in her latest project.

Dallas rapper and producer Omolulu Akinlolu, 38, is set to appear in court today over the attack which allegedly happened at Tape nightclub in London 's Mayfair in February 2023.

The trio are alleged to have been helping the Middle Eastern country's intelligence service between August 14 2024 and February 16 2025.

Cassie Ventura's testimony during the trial painted a harrowing picture of her years with Diddy, describing the emotional and physical abuse she allegedly endured.

The fire service suffered its deadliest day for 15 years as two firefighters died and two more were seriously injured tackling a blaze at a former RAF base.

Newly-released recordings of Joe Biden speaking to special counsel Robert Hur in 2023 show the declining president's memory lapses as he struggles to remember when his son Beau died.

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest will hold its grand final tonight - and there are already plenty of controversies for fans to get their teeth into.

Described as a 'fantastic opportunity' to acquire a 'three bedroom family house', the boarded up front door reveals a home in desperate need of assistance.

Resurfaced footage shows the moment the former Liberal staffer is asked whether he has 'ever exploited' his role in politics.

A grieving family have warned Australians to take the 'unprecedented' rise in cases of a deadly disease extremely seriously.

A golden figure of famed creator Walt Disney at California's Disneyland appears to have been modified after it gained notice for somewhat resembling Donald Trump.

The depraved golf coach, 71, was once known as the 'King of the Kids' for his work coaching junior athletes, including former world No. 1 Jason Day.

A 15-year-old illegal immigrant who killed 24-year-old Kaitlyn Weaver in a 90mph crash has walked free after a Colorado DA offered a probation-only plea deal.

Ryan Walters, who called the impromptu media briefing after lawmakers rejected several of his proposed budget requests, quickly found himself in a tense clash with reporters.

The MAGA firebrand had made the remark in a statement after calls for her to be censured for a tweet she sent out after Pope Francis died.

Special Agent Yasin Binda testified to what the feds discovered in room 2115 at the Park Hyatt Hotel on September 16, 2024, the day Combs was taken into custody.

What began as a typical spring day in the Windy City quickly morphed into a catastrophic weather event, leaving residents dazed as the landscape disappeared beneath a thick veil of dust.

The Supreme Court on Friday made a major ruling on Donald Trump's attempt to deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Law enforcement caught three of the ten fugitives who escaped a Louisiana jail early this morning. Shocking video footage reveals how they did it.

The two-day manhunt for a Tongan national who allegedly attacked two police officers has ended.

Nine dangerous inmates remain at large after a shocking escape from a Louisiana prison, where authorities say the group may have received help from someone inside the facility.

While most children's fathers talk about how proud they are of their daughters, for Tonya Beasley her father did it with a more sinister motive. To lure in his next victims to kill.

The appalling incident, which occurred on Sunday, was captured in a video shared online. The footage quickly went viral, sparking outrage and disbelief among viewers disturbed by the unsettling sight.

New Opposition leader Sussan Ley shared the heartbreaking news to her Instagram on Saturday.

Mejid Hamzy, 44, was killed during a 2020 drive-by assassination at his home at Condell Park in Sydney's west.

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs' attorneys are expected to conclude their cross-examination of his ex-girlfriend and main accuser Cassie Ventura on Friday.

Disturbing new details have now emerged after a beauty influencer was shot and killed while recording a TikTok livestream.

Organisations representing the Australian Jewish community have slammed the 'openly antisemitic conduct' of a University of Sydney student meeting.

The long-standing sports broadcaster was condemned for his now-deleted Instagram video story that prompted backlash from sections of the Jewish community.

With hackers having worked undetected for more than two days, emergency response teams worked tirelessly to protect the beloved British store, frequented by up to 9.4million customers.

Prolific thief Luminita Zamfir, 24, told staff she had been sent by an agency for a trial shift and was escorted into a £105million mansion in central London.

The little-known Thai law is considered one of the strictest in the world.

The independent review, commissioned by the Labour justice secretary Shabana Mahmood will recommend that magistrates and judges consider alternatives to custodial sentences.

The former premier has finally managed to catch a game of golf in his city - but there's a catch.

It was 1am and in a flash three young thieves had stolen almost a quarter of a million pounds from Alex White. 'I didn't realise what they had done until the next day,' says Alex, 36.

Wendy Verne-Cole, 68, who was recovering from cancer treatment, was tragically killed after an old box plug sparked a devastating blaze, which tore through her home in Barry, south Wales.

The criminals who stole Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem's bag took off and decided to purchase something rather odd.

Hundreds of novices at training base HMS Raleigh were placed in a 'communication blackout' after intimate photographs were shared of a young female recruit without her consent.

Daniel Hill, 43, known as 'Dapper Dan' on the reality TV series, was caught on CCTV driving his car towards the woman in the small village of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire.

Pro-Palestinian actor Ncuti Gatwa, 32, withdrew from Eurovision hosting duties - with the BBC announcing his decision - just two minutes after Israel qualified for tonight's final.

Residents are prepared to sue over cancer-causing 'forever chemicals' that have been present in their drinking water for decades.

Celtic Football Club is encouraging fans not to take part in unofficial post-match celebrations today amid fears of disorder with an Orange Order event also taking place in the same city.

Scottish Water has been slammed after it emerged it is losing hundreds of millions of litres through leaks every day.

A Brazilian influencer revealed her former boyfriend applied a weight loss medication to her body while she slept because he was not happy with her physical appearance.

A paramedic who secretly gave his pregnant lover an abortion drug, killing her unborn child, has been told he faces a lengthy jail sentence.

You can't blame people up and down Scotland for basking in this sustained period of sunshine. After all, we're often used to digging out the big coat at this time of year, rather than putting on shorts.

A former politician who lost three sons to terminal illness has claimed Scotland's assisted dying legislation could become 'a recipe for encouraging suicide'.

When word came on Tuesday that the Scottish parliament had voted - and by an unexpectedly large margin - to legalise 'assisted dying', my reaction was not one of bewilderment or shock.

Cassie Ventura told Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial that she received mental health care at the Willow House treatment facility in 2023.

Cassie Ventura has admitted that she and Sean 'Diddy' Combs had sexual relations with Jonathan Oddi, a former porn star who fired shots at Trump's Doral Miami resort in 2018.

A massive inferno erupted at the historic Nottoway Plantation House in White Castle, Louisiana shortly after 2pm Thursday. A giant orange wall of fire consumed the 166-year-old home.

Flight 1884 landed in the Tennessee capital just 1 hour and 29 minutes after departing Chicago O'Hare on Friday morning.

Looking down from on high, the drone's eye view is unflinchingly spare.

El actor cubano Pedro Moreno ha salido en la madrugada de este viernes de una cárcel de Miami tras pelearse con su esposa desde hace 17 años por una supuesta infidelidad.

A Democrat exploring a run for Congress in New Hampshire has already hit snags with her political plans after details of her seemingly luxurious life have leaked online.

Celtic star Reo Hatate has been ruled out of the Scottish Cup final with the injury he suffered against Hampden opponents Aberdeen in midweek.

It came as he left the Middle East to return to the United States after a four-day trip

Ex-football prodigy Kaine Wright, 27, and Joe Chappell, 37, allegedly took 46 items from the Harry Winston Omotesando Hills Salon of Jewellery in the Shibuya district of Tokyo in 2015.

President Donald Trump has reportedly warned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., off of a potential run for Senate.

Teenage British 'drugs mule' Bella Culley faces raising her child behind bars in Georgia after she was caught entering the country with £200,000 worth of cannabis.

A frantic search was launched on Thursday evening around two miles off the coast of Cannon Beach in Oregon after a witness saw five flares sent into the night sky.

Despite claims by the Trump administration of having the ' most secure border in history,' one area of Texas is still seeing a major spike in illegal immigrant traffic.

President Donald Trump has fired off a new barrage ridiculing megastar Taylor Swift.

This is the moment a 'rising star' prison governor was arrested by police for having a relationship with a drug boss, who she released early despite not having the authority to do so herself.  

Mary Fong Lau, 79, is accused of mowing down Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, 40, Matilde Ramos Pinto, 38, and their two children with her SUV in San Francisco last year.

The supermarket giant made the commitment to 'stand with British farmers' after Sir Keir agreed to cut tariffs on US beef imports.

Temperatures could hit 25C on Sunday in western areas of England and parts of Northern Ireland , Scotland and Wales, with most areas set to see blue skies over both days, the Met Office said.

A disturbing movement calling for Donald Trump 's assassination appeared to get a high-profile nod from former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday.

Tributes have poured in for the pair of brave combatants, as well as a member of the public, after the inferno ripped through a former RAF base near the Oxfordshire village last night.

A wheelchair-bound lecturer has won her disability fight against a top university after she was only offered a ramp 'like a ski jump' to get into her office.

Cuban actor Pedro Moreno has been released from a Miami jail during the early hours Friday following fight with his wife of 17 years over an alleged infidelity.

Congressman Shri Thanedar was filmed making an error that's unlikely to go down well with local voters who are fast tiring of his antics.

Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service's chief fire officer choked with emotion and appeared to be fighting back tears as he told 'with a heavy heart' of the 'unwavering bravery' of his colleagues.

Kid Rock, 54, made the outlandish claim about America's declining birth rate during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday night.

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison.

Shocking footage shows the metal panel of the ATR 72-600 aircraft flapping violently, exposing the internal engine components.

It dates to the early Edwardian era and is almost entirely underground. But now the decommissioned 1905 water tank in a picturesque seaside town is up for sale for under £400,000

Some 250,000 UK pet owners were estimated to have taken their cats and dogs on holiday to the EU every year before Britain left the scheme when the Brexit transition period ended in January 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Malt, 47, died at category B prison HMP Gartree in Leicestershire on April 29.

Recap our coverage as two firefighters and a member of the public die after a huge fire swept through a former RAF base in Oxfordshire.

Almena Amica, 77, was using a pedestrian crossing to cross the road in the centre of Manchester when the bus accelerated and collided into her.

Devoted father Nathan Osman, 30, was away on a holiday with friends in September last year when he was found dead at the bottom of a 500ft cliff.

Authorities rescued 10 elderly men and women and shut down a retirement home in San Luis Potosi, Mexico on Thursday after leaked videos showed the abuse of at least three seniors.

Customer experience supervisor Olivia Hristovska suffered critical injuries when the wall of a walkway to an aircraft seemingly ruptured as she leant against it on May 3.

President Donald Trump announced one final $1 trillion deal on the last day of his Middle East trip and then said he was headed home to see his new grandson.

Paul Gerard Tustain, 62, died yesterday after his rented BMW motorbike strayed onto the wrong side of a road near Pamplona before slamming into a van.

Winchester Racquets and Fitness Club has faced a deluge of complaints from nearby homeowners about being forced to endure 'gunshot-like' noises and 'constant' swearing from players.

Now Ashlee was 17 and had started to act distant with me. I thought I knew the reason why. Recently, she'd started seeing a man called Jimmy, who was seven years older than her.

Three young lynx abandoned in the Cairngorms National Park earlier this year have found a new home at Highland Wildlife Park.

A Melbourne mother has described how a mobile app helped her to discover her son had been involved in a fatal car crash.

The 48-year-old actor, who has been embroiled in Blake Lively 's legal battle with Justin Baldoni , was a guest on Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast.

Cook Recaldo Thomas, 59, was one of the seven people who died in the disaster last August aboard the luxury yacht owned by British tech billionaire Mike Lynch.

The Prime Minister is expected to use talks with leaders in the margins of the meeting in Tirana to entice them to host return hubs, after the conference host said no.

Roman Lavrynovych, 21, from Sydenham in south London, had been charged last night by Scotland Yard with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life.

Valeria Marquez, 23, was murdered on Tuesday by a killer disguised as a delivery man while broadcasting live from her beauty salon in Zapopan, in the western Mexican state of Jalisco.

President Donald Trump said former FBI director James Comey knew 'exactly' what it meant when he posted an image of '86 47' on his Instagram account.

Two seats in the Federal Election may be headed towards a recount.

The freak incident occurred on May 3 in the village of Priblizhnaya, a rural locality in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Paul Berryman, 62, faced an automatic five years behind bars for the offence. His lie at Norwich Crown Court led to him receiving a total of six years in jail.

The woman is said to have added part of her husband's sex organs to the meal and eating it after ending his life in a revenge attack when she caught him watching porn.

The most outspoken lawmaker on transgender issues will be attending a court hearing on Friday for a trans activist that threatened to kill her.

Melbourne teacher Oscar Jenkins has learned his fate after being captured fighting alongside Ukrainian forces.

The flight, from Frankfurt to Seville, appeared to be running smoothly and was cruising when disaster almost struck.

Outside court on Friday a friend remembered slain mother-of-two Shereen Kumar as 'extraordinary, she lit up every room that she walked into'.

Brandon Joseph, 30, reportedly assaulted Herlindo Emmanuel Nino, 31, at a car park in the Badung district of the holiday island in the early hours of Thursday.

A homeware retail giant that seemed consigned to the history books looks like making a comeback after a £3million swoop by new investors.

Brave Christopher Garrett - known to friends as Chris or 'Swampy - died in an explosion on Tuesday while working on the frontline Izyum, near Kharkiv.

People began reporting problems on DownDetector at 9.20pm and by 10.30pm, over 26,000 people said they had no signal on their television

Christopher Herd, 48, denied the charges, some of which are said to have taken place in different locations in Essex, including on public transport.

The juror, known only as juror 84, was discharged from the case after Justice Christopher Beale said he received credible evidence the person was discussing the facts of the trial with family and friends.

Edi Rama, a former professional basketball player who won a fourth term as PM on Sunday, left his British counterpart red-faced over his latest attempt at a migrant crackdown.

In an update this morning, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said they were 'mourning the loss' of two colleagues killed in the blaze.

Gable Tostee, who was acquitted of murdering his Tinder date after she fell from his high-rise apartment, has launched a spectacular tirade against the media.

Jacob Calland was riding on the back of an e-scooter without a helmet through a busy junction in Wythenshawe, Manchester, on March 19 when the horrific crash happened.

An Iranian criminal was allowed to stay in the UK after an immigration judge said that he wouldn't be able to cut his son's hair 'remotely'.

Devastated mum Victoria Kiesler's said her son Weston was outside his house riding his bike when he was suddenly attacked by the dog in Goole, West Yorkshire.