Paedophile teacher who sexually abused students avoids jail because he’s too fat

Peter John O’Neill, 61, is morbidly obese and uses a wheelchair, needs a full-time carer and is so unfit he has been unable to leave his house to get to his court hearing

Pop star killed when car crossing tracks struck by train during live stream

WARNING – DISTRESSING FOOTAGE Tavy Pustiu, 29, was listening to loud music in his car when the train ploughed into the car’s passenger side in Romania’s Prahova County

New coronavirus strain is 10 times more infectious ‘but may be a good thing’

Paul Tambyah, president elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases in the US, said the D614G mutation is becoming more common in Europe but coincides with a drop in death rates

Couple caught on camera having sex during Zoom meeting hosted by council

The man, who has not been named, left the meeting but forgot to turn his camera off so was unaware his X-rated performance was being live-streamed to the horror of its other particpants

‘Tormented’ life of ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ kept in chains for 35 years

Kaavan the Asian elephant had inspired an international effort to have him moved from his cramped home at the Maraghazar Zoo in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad

‘I flew to Barcelona during the pandemic and this is how my holiday went’

Estel Farell-Roig flew out to see her family in Barcelona and the holiday was very different from her previous experiences as Spain continues to report thousands of new cases

Parents sickened by ‘extremely disturbing’ hidden feature on LOL Surprise! doll

Mum Kate Worsfold says that her daughter’s LOL Surprise! dolls have ‘sexualised’ outfits that are not visible when purchasing them

Cyborg locusts used to sniff out bombs ‘could stop deadly terror attacks’

The sensory system of the insect was ‘hijacked’ by researchers using electrodes who found it could detect and discern between explosive scents within 500 milliseconds of exposure

Millionaire accused of hiring sex worker to rape sons to ‘make men out of them’

Fashion mogul Peter Nygard, 79, has denied his sons’ claims that he hired his sex worker girlfriend to rape them when one was just 14 and the other 15 at homes in the Bahamas and Canada

Croatia may be added to the ‘quarantine list’ on Thursday unless cases decrease

The popular holiday destination could be removed from the safe list this week during the weekly review, as the number of infections has passed the Government threshold