A senior Network Rail engineer has exclusively told MailOnline that GWR passengers were left as sitting ducks on a partly derailed train for seven minutes before being hit by another intercity train.

Boris Johnson will warn world leaders that humanity has 'run down the clock' on climate change and must get serious about action in his speech to the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

The body of Agnes Wanjiru, 21, was found at a hotel in Kenya, in March 2012, two months after she disappeared and a British soldier accused of murder has been named by fellow troops.

A woman, 82, sparked an emergency evacuation after she spotted a Second World War-era bomb in a rubble and concrete-filled bin bag in the shed of her home in Swinton, Greater Manchester.

Halloween revellers across the UK showed off their spooky streaks on Sunday as they hit the nation's pubs and clubs in style.

Cherral Mitchell, 31, required two midwives to deliver baby Alpha before he left staff at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford stunned when he weighed in at 14lb 15oz.

Terrified pedestrians and motorists were left watching in horror as a group of thugs fired explosives across a high street in Stamford Hill, north London, at around 10.30pm last night.

Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen has called for international aid to help complete environmental projects in Afghanistan. He said 'tremendous work' was needed to help Afghanistan be greener.

Rail engineers are battling through the night to repair overhead lines that led to chaos on the network, dozens of trains being cancelled and hundreds of delegates unable to reach COP26 in Glasgow.

Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic yesterday urged the UK's Brexit chief Lord Frost to reconsider the EU's proposals to reduce checks on goods entering Northern Ireland.

US lawyers for Prince Andrew have fired back in a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed in New York by Virginia Giuffre who says she was trafficked by Epstein and made to have sex with the Duke of York.

With shots of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna making their way into arms across the country, the use of the word 'vax' was up 72 times compared to September last year.

Translators say officers of the Inter-Service Intelligence, which has close links with the Taliban, have told the UK they must have access to the interpreters before exit visas are issued.

The seal died just hours after officers attended the scene in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to guard it  on Tuesday. Some people were spotted throwing stones at the grey seal.

As many as three people could be unaccounted for after trying to cross from France to the UK in a dinghy earlier this week.

Jo Flower, 37 and her husband Rob, 48, are known among their community for marking events with audacious decorations. 'We do it every year and never have any problems,' said Jo.

The woollen Tommy, right, appeared in Wantage, Oxfordshire, wearing a helmet and was surrounded by poppies. A similar soldier showed up last year in Syston, Leicestershire.

It means testing bills could add at least £70 per child to the cost of a transatlantic trip when the US reopens to British tourists next Monday as a surge in demand pushes up the cost of flights.

Former pensions minister Ros Altmann will lead a cross-party push to amend legislation designed to suspend the triple lock, which is meant to protect the incomes of those in retirement.

Charles is facing pressure to cut ties with Michael Fawcett after he allegedly offered to 'support' a billionaire Saudi donor to the Prince's Foundation to secure a knighthood and British citizenship.

Simon Cowell has stepped down from the judging panel of upcoming ITV musical game show Walk The Line.

The past seven years have been the hottest on record since 1850 and the rate at which sea levels are rising is accelerating, UN experts have warned.

Schools in the East of England will be urged to reimpose the measure on top of mass testing to halt an increase in coronavirus cases in the region, the Health Safety Agency announced yesterday.

Covid booster jabs will be available for those eligible at walk-in clinics from today in a push to speed up the sluggish rollout of top-up doses before the winter, NHS chiefs announced last night.

Some London hospitals are trialling the lounges as a place for ambulances to drop off patients waiting to be admitted into A&E as an alternative to keeping them stuck in the back of the vehicle.

As the Cop26 climate summit begins, the Daily Mail can reveal that 14 cars used by UK Government ministers run on diesel and 29 on petrol - 44 per cent of the total.

A report by the Committee on Standards in Public Life today calls for an overhaul of conduct systems in the wake of the Greensill scandal, including calls that breaches should result in fines.

Heinz has come up with a Christmas dinner soup with turkey as well as sprouts and stuffing.The £1.50 Big Soup Christmas Dinner also has roasties and a gravy and cranberry sauce.

The owners of the British trawler seized by France during the escalating row over-fishing licences will have to pay bail of more than £125,000 before she is allowed to return.

Paul O'Dwyer, 42, jumped into a river to rescue two women after a sudden storm turned their paddleboarding session into a dangerous torrent on the River Cleddau in Wales on Saturday.

The 63-year-old actor's daughter Madeleine said she had to hurriedly give her dad the good news because she had already told the newspaper and it was about to be published.

Jo Whiley, 56, who has been a fixture at Glastonbury for years, went on HRT because she felt like a liability on the radio. She reveals her lowest ebb coincided with her role on Drivetime.

The new red, white and blue logo is for the launch of Great British Railways, which will oversee the train system. The public body will take over from Network Rail by the end of 2023.

Stephen 'Luke' Atkinson, 57, was killed along with Australian colleague Trent Lee while working with unexploded bombs at their accommodation on the Solomon Islands on September 20 last year.

Police and firefighters descended on Old Church Street in Newton Heath to access Rochdale Canal. Police confirmed a man was pronounced dead at the scene, just yards from a busy high street.

The Food Standards Agency told firms to recall products for a variety of reasons including incorrect labelling leaving allergy sufferers at risk, and possible contamination with plastic.

The government today reported 38,009 new cases in the past week - the eighth day in a row that cases have fallen - and a 13.5% decline in new cases compared with the previous seven days.

Researchers have identified the areas in England and Wales most at risk of becoming hotbeds for right-wing extremism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout.

Jake Collins, 21, of Filey, North Yorkshire has this week been jailed for 18 months for blackmailing and pestering a woman, 20, who had stood him up on a date, with revenge porn photos.

Diane Douglas, 58, from Colton, near Norwich, was reported missing on October 21 by her family, who she has not been in contact with for 'several years', after they were unable to reach her.

Police are searching for a man who punched and raped a female victim in an alleyway in Kent. The victim, in her 20s, was attacked just an hour before the clocks went back last night.

The cyber criminals have already leaked 69,000 confidential documents on to the so-called 'dark web', including files relating to Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, David Beckham and Sir Philip Green.

The victim, a man believed to have been 86, was pronounced dead at a property in Southgate, north London, after being found by Met Police officers with a fatal head injury on Saturday night.

Palace aides are drafting plans for the Duchess of Cornwall to take on a significantly greater role to help cover for the Queen, 95, as she recovers from an unknown ailment

Rebel National Trust members narrowly lost their opening salvo in a 'war on woke and political correctness' yesterday, deepening the divide between traditionalists and modernisers.

The Queen is being nurtured back to health by watching television with her two closest aides - Paul Whybrew, the Queen's favourite courtier, and her dresser Angela Kelly.

White British civil servants have been advised to read titles such as White Fragility: Why It's So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism to address their 'ignorance' of the topic.

The Queen, 95, will miss the traditional Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on November 13, but has vowed to attend the service at the Cenotaph the following day.

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New York City's Greenwich Village Halloween Parade returned for the first time in two years after it was canceled in 2020 for COVID-related reasons.

One teenager filmed inside one carriage that was tipping over and said: 'F*** me. We are literally on our side' before zooming in on an injured man and saying: 'That guy's face is mashed'.

A Victorian Opposition MP known for outrageous social media posts has compared Dan Andrews to Hitler sparking the ire of fed-up Liberal leader Matthew Guy.

Jes Staley, boss of Barclays, said he will step down with immediate effect, with the bank's board saying it is "disappointed" with the outcome of the Financial Conduct Authority report.

The incredible transformation of 'Fairy Floss girl' who captured hearts around the nation after attending the Melbourne Cup carnival in 2016 has been revealed.

Boris Johnson has been welcoming foreign premiers to COP26 in Glasgow as he desperately tries to get momentum - after securing only lukewarm commitments at the G20.

Female arm wrestler Ula Siekacz was battered into submission by male MMA fighter Piotrek Muaboy during an inter-gender bout at an MMA-VIP event held in Czestochowa, Poland.

As representatives of 200 nations gather in Glasgow to thrash out a deal to try to limit global warming to 1.5C, thousands of officers were in place and have erected a ring of steel.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss rejected the deadline set by the French president of tomorrow for more small boats to be granted licences for UK waters.

A 76-year-old man driving to visit his daughter in regional NSW for the first time since regional travel restrictions were lifted has tragically died in a horror smash in the Blue Mountains.

Fully vaccinated travellers from Singapore will be able to fly to Australia for holidays without having to undergo dreaded hotel quarantine from November 21.

Hundreds of passengers slept at Euston Station last night as they waited for trains to run. Heavy wind that brought down a tree caused damage to overhead lines last night.

Sam Demilecamps, 25, said he was held captive for eight days in Monte San Giusto, central Italy, by a gang who, he claimed, beat and tortured him, and fed him 'leftovers like a dog'.

Fred Schebesta, the co-founder of financial comparison group Finder, has explained why 'The Great Resignation' that is sweeping the US won't be replicated in Australia.

Some social media users took to Twitter Sunday to express their disdain at a Southwest (pictured) pilot who said 'let's go Brandon' (pictured) over a flight intercom after landing the plane in New Mexico

Radio personality Lauren Phillips has been asked to apologise to the mother of a murdered child after she made a sick on-air joke about her horrific murder.

A teacher has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed multiple times by a student at a school in Perth. 

Registrations for the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow reached 38,895 people last night as the conference kicked off with the general message that doom and gloom awaits unless we act quickly.

President Biden was given a reporter list to call upon during Sunday's presser in Rome. It's not the first time such a technique has been employed by White House staff in a bid to control access to him.

Gladys Berejiklian was defensive, defiant and a little bit indignant - Pádraig Collins reviews her two days in the ICAC witness box. 

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has warmly welcomed outgoing Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young to her new role as governor of Queensland in a gushing speech.

Police said they confiscated the 23-year-old driver's action camera after spotting him driving at 162km/h in an 80km/h zone on the Warringah Freeway in North Sydney on September 11.

The rapid antigen tests take about 20 minutes to provide a result but are not as accurate as traditional PCR tests. Woolworths will be selling a nasal swab test in selected stores from Wednesday.

Craig Backman, a recently-resigned Victoria Police senior constable, addressed thousands of demonstrators outside parliament after dramatically quitting over vaccine mandates.

A 13-year-old boy was shuffled around 18 different foster homes, allegedly sexually abused and eventually committed suicide in a shocking failure of the Australian child support system.

The incident took place Saturday morning just before 8 am. Police and fire officials were called for reports of a fire at a deli on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn.

Around 24,000 New York city workers will not be at work on Monday morning in the nation's biggest city. It includes those working in essential roles such as the NYPD and FDNY along with EMT's.

Heartwarming scenes have unfolded at Sydney airport as reunited families and friends embraced for the first time in nearly two years as NSW officially opened its borders to international arrivals. 

Bennet Schwartz was arrested at his home in Rose Bay, in the city's eastern suburbs, and charge over the drug importation scheme allegedly involving Mostafa Baluch.

Club insiders are disappointed De Goey was in a position for such allegations to be levelled against him at all after selling his team on the trip by promising to get match-fit for next season.

Woollahra Council, in Sydney's ritzy eastern suburbs, last week voted to sign up to state government housings target to build 500 new homes in the area by 2026.

Victorians can be locked down for an unlimited period of time even if there are no cases of a virus under Daniel Andrews' sweeping new pandemic laws.

A survey of 60 randomly-selected urban and rural surgeries across England conducted by the Daily Mail has found that almost one in five left callers waiting for 15 minutes or more.

An Australian on an average, full-time salary of $90,300 would already struggle to pay off a typical home. From today, the banks must apply a stricter rule before a mortgage is approved.

Facing a 3-1 World Series deficit heading into Sunday's Game 5 in Atlanta, the Astros clawed back from an early 4-0 hole to pull out a 9-5 win and force Game 6 on Tuesday night.

American Airlines' cancellation streak continues as more than 200 flights and counting were canceled early Monday morning, following over 1,700 flight cancellations since Friday.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin celebrated Halloween with their six children on Sunday. Hilaria, who shared pictures of the family online, received on outpour of support from fellow celebrities.

Moderna says FDA will delay its vaccine use for children aged 12 to 17 to continue evaluations of myocarditis risk - or inflammation of the heart muscle - until at least January 2022.

Gladys Berejiklian struck a farewell note as she addressed the people of NSW after wrapping up her grilling in front of the corruption watchdog on Monday.

Melania Trump appeared alongside her husband at a World Series baseball game. The former First Lady appeared happy together with her husband when suddenly the smile drained from her face.

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi earlier this month warned schools against teaching 'white privilege' as if it were fact and said it was a 'contested view'.

Many of the incidents involved minor infractions and none of the drivers who died were armed or under pursuit for violent crimes. In most instances, the officers said they had feared for their lives.

A Florida man was filmed as he lay on the floor in a Costco for eight minutes in protest after he was told to put on a face mask last year, video of which went viral on Saturday, receiving 884k views as of Sunday.

Alberto 'Alpo' Martinez, 55, was found dead in his 2017 Dodge Ram on the corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 147 Street in Harlem, police said.

The unvaccinated Uber driver who sparked a Covid-19 scare in Queensland has been fined.

ICAC Assistant Commissioner Ruth McColl has repeatedly reprimanded the former NSW Premier during a hearing into her secret relationship with disgraced ex-MP Daryl Maguire.

Country music fans were caught chanting 'F*** Joe Biden' at a recent Jason Aldean concert as the chant continues to spread across the US. A video of the moment went viral yesterday on Twitter.

Shadow Attorney-General Tim Smith resigned from his senior post with the Victorian state opposition on Sunday, just hours after he ploughed his car into a fence while drink driving in Melbourne's inner east.

VP Harris received her third COVID-19 vaccination shot - a booster- on Saturday in front of a fake White House set, which was mocked by republicans earlier this month.

A new poll released by NBC News on Sunday paints another bleak picture for Biden while he's in Europe. It shows the majority of Americans unhappy with how Biden is handling the economy.

The prime minister appeared to receive more cold shoulders than handshakes during the seemingly awkward encounters at the summit in Rome.

Post-Covid lockdown race-goers will lead the way as Australia celebrates the 161st running of Australia's most famous horse race. The favourite, Incentivize, is the shortest-priced favourite since Phar Lap.

Police investigating the disappearance of Cleo Smith have pleaded for dash cam and CCTV footage within a 1000km radius of where the pre-schooler vanished at a remote campsite in WA.

Musk made his comments in response to an assertion made earlier this month by World Food Programme Director David Beasley. The UN official claimed $6billion would solve world hunger.

Mahmoud Sanoussi was just 15 when he and at least 13 other Lebanese-Australian youths committed a series of pack rapes in south-western Sydney in 2000.

Emmanuel Macron made his feelings known about Scott Morrison during a fiery exchange with Australian journalists at the G20 Summit in Rome.

Queensland Health Minister Ms D'Ath said on Monday 4,000 healthcare workers across the state had yet to receive both vaccine doses and would be stood down with immediate effect.

Thousands of trick or treaters were out in force to fill their baskets with sweets or attend parties as Halloween festivities kicked off over the weekend.

Virginia Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe was branded a hypocrite on Sunday after he praised Virginia's school system despite the fact four of his five children were privately educated.

The VCE students jumped at the first chance to make fun of Premier Daniel Andrews and his former NSW rival just days after Melburnians emerged from their sixth lockdown.

Florida TikTok star Damaury Mikula,18, was arrested on Friday after he allegedly ran a ran light and provoked a 100-mile-per-hour high speed chase

The 72 million members of Generation Z are aging into the workforce in droves - now, their Millennial bosses are struggling to make sense of their differing approach to the workplace.

NYC has issued a state-wide call for city firefighters in areas such as Long Island and Upstate New York as one-third of FDNY firefighters remain unvaccinated ahead of Nov. 1 deadline

Personal letters and recollections of Bert Newtown continue to reveal his enormous generosity after the beloved entertainer passed away.

Victoria recorded 1471 new cases and four deaths on Monday as the state reopened its international borders for the first time in 19 months.

Dog-owner Emily Torvald revealed her beloved pet Brick The Staffy had a cardiac arrest while swimming at the family dam on Sunday.

Ibram X. Kendi posted and then deleted a tweet promoting an article which stated that white college applicants pretend to be non-white in order to gain acceptance.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg dressed his twins as traffic cones to match their outfits with his agenda on infrastructure, as he and his family spend Halloween in the hospital with their infant son.

Quick-thinking Adelaide teenager Sophie, 18, has been praised for foiling an attempted robbery in a St Peters convenience store by simply asking the man to hold-up another petrol station up the road.

President Joe Biden (pictured) strutted in for a G20 press conference in Rome, Italy nearly an hour behind schedule Sunday, and blamed his tardiness on 'playing with elevators.'

Westpac is expecting the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates early to stop the housing market from overheating. New figures show prices continue to surge at dangerous levels.

Gladys corruption probe mysteriously goes behind closed doors as she's grilled over Daryl Maguire's bizarre texts to her about 'little green men' and demanding she buy a second phone.

A Queensland family camping at the Blowholes site at the time of Cleo Smith disappearance and have described their stay which they never forget 'for all the wrong reasons.'

Extinction Rebellion protestors have burned an Australian flag on the steps of the Victorian Parliament and declared Australia a 'climate pariah' as the COP26 Summit kicks off in Glasgow.

Ellie Smith on Sunday called for help finding her 'shining bright light' - 16 days after the little girl vanished from her family's tent near Carnarvon during a camping trip on October 16.

International travellers have embraced their loved ones for the first time in months after the first of the quarantine-free flights touched down at Sydney airport. 

The Collingwood forward, 25, was arrested about 2.20am on Saturday morning at Manhattan's PHD Rooftop Lounge after De Goey allegedly groped a 35-year-old woman on the dancefloor.

Inglewood's Morningside Monarchs were beaten 106-0 - though scoreboard did not have enough digits to flash the final score - by rivals Inglewood High Sentinels on Friday.

Covid-19 cases in NSW continue to plummet after the state recorded 135 new infections and four deaths. 

Service-goers had been celebrating Oxi Day when a war of words broke out between attendees at St Nicholas Church, in Darwin, on Sunday.

Brussels has 'destroyed cross-community consent' with its overly strict enforcement of the Northern Ireland Protocol, Lord Frost claimed in a Policy Exchange think-tank paper published today.

The GMB union have told Glasgow City Council that bin collection strikes will go ahead tomorrow as the city hosts world leaders for the COP26 summit.

Arabic-Polish Boston mayoral candidate Annissa Essaibi George, 47, explained her struggle over racial identity and how she formerly did not consider herself a woman of color

Psaki revealed on Sunday evening she had tested positive for COVID-19 after deciding not to travel with President Biden to the G20 summit in Rome.

AFL star Jordan De Goey has been stood down indefinitely by Collingwood after he allegedly groped a woman at a New York City nightclub before glassing a man.

There's no end in sight for the ongoing supply chain crisis that's leaving shelves barren (inset) as congestion continues at California's ports (inset), says Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg (left).

Multi-billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates reportedly celebrated his birthday on a yacht in the company of fellow tycoon and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos off Turkish coast on Friday.

Las Vegas police announced last week that the murders of Eric Mosley, left, and Sandra Cruz-Lopez, inset, may be related to an $800 debt Mosley owed Antonio Barry-Edwards, top right.

Brandon Daniel, 33, was found unresponsive by a correctional officer at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas at 4:25 am Saturday.

After a day of big international diplomacy, tackling climate change and supply chains, Biden came close to tears as he talked about meeting Pope Francis in the days after his son's death.

Patti Newton revealed TV legend Bert died 12 minutes after she left his hospital ward on Saturday night - believing it was one final selfless act from her husband of 47 years.

Researchers, from Shanghai's Fudan University, quizzed 1,263 women on what kind of shoes they wore - from heels of under one inch to more than three inches.

In this poignant message to his younger self, Pointless star and Thursday Murder Club author Richard Osman, 50, recalls the shattering betrayal that changed his life.

Emmanuel Macron insisted that unless the UK shifted reprisals will happen within days, saying 'the ball is in Britain's court'.

A Sydney mum put a trick or treat collection bowl outside her home in the city's inner-west on Sunday after her family were classed as Covid-19 close contacts and forced to self-isolate.

A slick corporate video for his investigations firm, Covert Security, portrays Dizaei as a respected former Scotland Yard chief who is now an international thief taker despite his criminal past.

A devastated overseas arrival who has been barred from visiting his dying mother in Western Australia has sent a brutal message to Mark McGowan.

The Prince of Wales will argue that a 'war-like footing' is needed to tackle the climate crisis during the opening ceremony of the COP26 summit in Glasgow tomorrow.

American Airlines has cancelled almost a third of their Sunday schedule as strong winds in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and ongoing staff shortages have caused more than 1,600 flights to be axed

Republican newcomer Glenn Youngkin's is running against Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former governor and close ally of President Joe Biden.

Critics of Biden's approach said it would undermine efforts to persuade other countries to cut their use of coal during the crucial COP26 global summit in Glasgow, Scotland.