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Russia terror attack: 11 killed in St Petersburg bombing

Several Russian media outlets have released the CCTV picture of the bearded suspect who was wearing a long, black top and a hat blamed for caused the carnage by detonating a bomb that was packed with shrapnel. The terrifying incident took place on a train that was travelling between Sennaya Ploshchad and Sadovaya metro stations. Dozens have been injured, including at least three children, as it was reported the man left a briefcase on a train before moving carriages moments before the deadly blast. A second explosive device disguised as a fire extinguisher was found and defused in a nearby station. Bloodied passengers were left strewn across the platform in the Russian city as emergency services scrambled to save those wounded by the bomb and the resulting shards of glass and twisted metal.

Dundee driver who ignored 200 parking fines ordered to pay

Carly Mackie (top), 28, was taken to court after she ripped up more than 200 of the company’s parking penalties thinking they were unenforceable in Scotland. But a sheriff has found in favour of the company – shattering the widely held belief that parking fines issued by private firms can be ignored. The Dundee case is thought to be the first in Scotland involving a private parking firm and a member of the public. Pictured, the garages in Dundee (below) where Carly Mackie parked her car and a sign at the location (inset). Tory MSP Murdo Fraser has highlighted the distress caused by ‘bully-boy’ tactics, including the threat of court action, increased fines and damage to an individual’s credit rating.

Previously top secret papers have revealed the extraordinary back up plan drawn up while plans for the Tunnel between Kent and Calais were in their infancy.

Marion Konkzak was awarded £360,178.60 compensation in October 2014, but BAE are asking London's Appeal Court to slash her award, claiming it is 'grossly excessive' for what happened to her.

Stuart Gallear is accused of murdering his wife Mandy (pictured), who was found with three deep stab wounds on the kitchen floor of her home near Wigan last October and could not be saved.

David Moyes is refusing to resign as manager of Sunderland and the club are standing by him despite his threat to slap a female reporter. He is now facing disciplinary action from the FA.

Some 250 gifts that the Queen has received during her 65-year reign will be put on display as part of the Royal Gifts exhibition in the state rooms at Buckingham Palace this summer.

Exposure to a chemical found in countless everyday products may increase the aggressiveness of breast cancer, according to an Oakland University study.

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Paul Carter, the Daily Mail’s hugely talented and respected Deputy Editor, has died after a long and heroic battle against cancer. He was 54.

An article on March 18 about the data sharing function of SystmOne, a computer system used by GP surgeries, said that it was not secure and that it enabled non-qualified staff to gain access to patients’ medical records.

Snowdonia helicopter crash leaves six children orphaned

Millionaire Kevin Burke, 56, his wife Ruth, 49, (right) his brothers Barry, 51, and Donald, 55, (top left) and his wife Sharon, 48, (with Donald bottom left) were all killed in the air disaster last Wednesday. They were all flying to Ireland to surprise their niece at her confirmation party but crashed into a mountain in gale force winds and low cloud. North Wales Police said today that the remains of the helicopter have now been recovered as their griefstricken family spoke for the first time. Donald and Sharon Burke’s daughter Olivia, one of six to lose a parent, said: 'Our family has changed within the space of a day. They were taken far too soon and it’s hard for us to understand why such a tragedy would happen to the best type of people, who were so selfless and genuine to everyone they met'.

Nicola Urquhart said she was not 'grief stricken' that her son had not yet been found, but that she was 'utterly realistic' about the outcome of the search of a rubbish tip in Cambridgeshire.

Louise Poulton, 43, kept the animals inside pitch-black sheds in Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands, which were plastered in blood and faeces.

Raymond Sculley was accused of beating Zdenek Makar to death with a bicycle lock on September 21 last year. But he was found not guilty of murdering the 'big-hearted' victim.

A couple were camping in the Siegaue Nature Reserve, near Bonn, Germany, when the man (a facial composite pictured above), threatened them with a machete on Sunday.

The man drove straight from work to Cwmbran railway station in South Wales on Saturday but was met by vigilante group H Division, rather than 'the 14-year-old' he had been speaking to.

Ming Jiang, 43, from Beswick, is standing trial at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester accused of the murder of Yang Liu, 36, between October 5 and October 10 last year.

Footage shows moments before dogs were shot in Bolton

Daniel Hennessy (pictured, left) was arrested after two of the five dogs were shot dead at the scene in Queen's Park, Bolton, and two more were detained, while one injured animal remains on the loose. Hennessy, from Bolton, who has posted dozens of pictures of himself with the animals on social media, was said to have been led away from the scene in tears yesterday. A 60-year-old woman was injured when one of the dogs bit her on the hand and another was bitten on the leg by what police said were pitbulls, a banned breed. Dramatic footage shows one dog biting a woman on the backside, while a man was forced to bat the dogs away with a metal chair.

Channel 4 News is being investigated after wrongly saying repeatedly that the Westminster terrorist killer was Abu Izzadeen (pictured), during a broadcast on March 22.

Sir Cliff’s lawyers claim the information was passed to journalist Dan Johnson by someone in Operation Yewtree, which was set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Today the south of England was hotter than popular holiday haven Santorini in Greece, but while people soaked up the early morning sun - the rest of the week may be a different story.

Fergus Wilson, 69, from Kent, has been passed Facebook posts showing images of himself and his wife Judith holding doctored property boards with offensive messages on them.

Paul Dixon, 23, from County Durham, caused mayhem when he took down the websites of Police Scotland, Durham Constabulary, Cex and British Airways.

The Home Secretary announced the new passports last week, although celebrities including Ricky Gervais and Sue Perkins think that the NHS might be a better place to spend the cash.

Pictures show £1m Wimbledon home that COLLAPSED overnight

Photos show the remains of the home (pictured inset before the collapse) near Wimbledon, London, thought to be worth over £1 million, with windows and doors left in a precarious pile after hundreds of bricks collapsed. The millionaires' row home, which has been undergoing renovations, reportedly collapsed after work in the basement was not properly supported. A spokesman for London Fire Brigade said: 'Firefighters attended a house collapse on Derwent Avenue, Kingston Vale in the early hours of this morning.' Neighbours reported that the building firm responsible is London-based Mega Plus Lebanon Ltd. The building firm has been contacted for comment.

Lloyds' micro branches will be staffed by just two people using tablets as the bank responds to the 'profound change' in customer needs and shrinks hundreds of branches UK wide.

Susan Maynard, 56, only met former Olympic badminton star Gillian Clark once before she started bombarding her with abusive calls- eventually threatening to kill her.

Gabor Hegedus, 38, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, today appeared before Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court and pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.

Matthew Haley gushed that the miniature seventeenth-century pad of 'scientific scholarly notes' on Shakespeare's work was one of the most valuable items ever seen on Antiques Roadshow.

The students, aged 13 and 14, were supervised by teachers and wore hard hats as they studied along the beach at West Bay in Dorset, despite rockfalls previously claiming lives.

Aaron Barley, who is accused of murdering Tracey and Pierce Wilkinson at their home in Stourbridge, was remanded in custody after a seven-minute hearing at Birmingham Crown Court.

Nicky Morgan stood on the manifesto claim at the 2010 and 2015 General Elections but today endorsed a document condemning it produced by the anti-Brexit Open Britain campaign.

Brussels is set to make the huge demand to cover the bloc's 'liabilities' after Theresa May triggers the formal Brexit process tomorrow.

Sadiq Khan said the EU should act with 'confidence' to strike a deal that worked for both sides. He met European Parliament chief negotiator Guy Verhofstadt (pictured) in Brussels today.

Just 17 per cent of the public believe the Labour leader is performing well, the research by GfK found. By contrast 18 per cent think the US president is doing a good job.

Elizabeth Hart-Browne murder trial: Mother tells of abuse

Elizabeth Hart-Browne, 27, stabbed Stephen Rayner, 25, three times with a kitchen knife after drinking champagne at a party on the night of 17 September last year, The Old Bailey heard. The mother-of-two is said to have carried out the murder in their flat in Acton, west London as her small children slept in bedrooms just feet away following a string of rows about Mr Rayner having an affair. But Hart-Browne, who was the assistant manager at Ernest Jones’ flagship jewellery store in the Westfield shopping centre, told the court she was regularly a victim of domestic abuse and on one occasion, during a fight after her sister’s 18th birthday, she had to desperately defend herself with her high-heeled shoe.

Gabor Hegedus, 38, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, today appeared before Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court and pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.

This is a four-day-old baby girl who was rescued from the sea off the coast of Libya by a Spanish NGO. The girl was taken along with the other migrants to Sicily for processing.

Kamrul Islam, 47, pleaded not guilty to assault after David Evans, 46, was hospitalised when the chilli went into his eyes at the Prince of Bengal restaurant in South Wales.

In the biggest shake-up to bail in 32 years, officers have been barred from leaving suspects languishing on bail for months or even years before deciding to charge them.

Up to ten crimes involving drones are reported to police every day amid a surge in popularity. Drones are being used in everything from prison smuggling to private snooping.

Criminals posting the depraved content are now mostly based in Europe, according to the annual report of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

Nine grammar schools will expand as part of a £2.4billion education funding announcement. The money will pay for extra classrooms in existing grammars, it is understood.

An analysis by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has found that almost half of women and a third of men are inactive. The average man is sat down for 78 days of the year while average woman sits down 74 days.

Educationalist Barnaby Lenon (pictured) warned boys risk falling even further behind girls at school because men are abandoning their role as authority figures and trying to be best friends.

High Court will decide whether Charlie Gard should live

Connie Yates (left today) hung her head and cried as Debra Powell QC, for Great Ormond Street Hospital, revealed Charlie's British doctors say a brain scan from March 27 shows 'he's in the terminal stages of his illness.' Miss Yates and Charlie's father Chris Gard, from London, have raised £1.2million in a month after a public appeal to help secure pioneering treatment in the United States. Today even the US doctor offering to help Charlie admitted he is 'less enthusiastic' about the seven-month-old boy flying to America now that he understands how severely ill he is. But he also told Mr Justice Francis, who will make the final decision on his future, that without pioneering therapy in the US 'he certainly will die without treatment'. Charlie's father Chris Gard (right today) clutched his seven-month-old son's cuddly toy monkey (circled) as the doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also said that if untreated Charlie 'will lose all brain function'.

The 18-year-old broke into the sheltered housing in Neuenhaus in Betheim and sneaked into two rooms including that of a paralyzed 59-year-old man to rape him and another victim, police say.

US President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of the working class but his administration team has turned out to be the richest in history.

William Waldorf Astor IV, 38, runs fund manager Long Harbour and is a director of HomeGround, which look after freehold contracts. Katie Kendrick, from Ellesmere Port, wants to take his firm to tribunal.

Theresa May (pictured) will today begin a three-day trip to the Middle East in an effort to foster business links and underline the UK's security credentials post-Brexit.

Digby Jones billed the taxpayer £2,400 for attending parliament eight times. On four of the eight days, he left to give speeches elsewhere. He did not submit any questions on the four days.

Samantha Morrison, from Newcastle upon Tyne, was visiting the café in the branch at the Metrocentre in Gateshead when her daughter Florence became ill on March 22.

The idea was put forward by co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley to address the pressures of modern life.

The Tory pledge to cut net immigration to the ‘tens of thousands’ will never be met unless foreign students are removed from the numbers, a string of Cabinet Ministers have warned Theresa May.

David Cameron hasn’t uttered a word to Gove since conceding defeat in a frosty telephone call last June. Now it seems the rift may deepen, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

Plymouth doctor, 32, found dead at home by her husband

An inquest revealed how 32-year-old Rebecca Louise Ovenden (pictured) was found dead by her husband Paul Ovenden at their home shortly before 9.30am on March 28. Dr Ovenden, who was known as Becky, had worked as a junior doctor in the Accident and Emergency Department at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth for 18 months and her grief-stricken colleagues said the young doctor was a ‘much-loved member of the team’ who will be ‘very sadly missed’. Rebecca was from Grantham, Lincolnshire but was living with her husband, a marine engineer, in Plymouth, Devon. The inquest heard Rebecca had 'previously made an attempt on her life' and had a 'history of mental health issues'. It also emerged the doctor once wrote a viral Facebook post that passionately defended the work of the NHS and revealed how much pressure staff were under.

Samantha Baldwin is wanted by police after disappearing with her two sons. She was last seen with Dylan, six, and Lewis, nine, in Nottingham on Monday. The pictures were shared by friends.

Eileen Blane, from Stretford, Greater Manchester, was in hospital for two months. She was discharged on Friday but was found dead at her home on Saturday morning.

Retired engineer Wilf Russell, 93, passed away at his care home in Leicester on Wednesday morning. His wife Vera, 91, was pronounced dead in a hospital just three miles away.

The statue of equal rights campaigner Millicent Fawcett (pictured left) will join the likes of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square to celebrate a century since women got the right to vote.

A major search and rescue operation was launched after the woman went missing from her diving group, near the Farne Islands in Northumberland, at 11am this morning.

Nicola Urquhart posted a video of 23-year-old Corrie McKeague lip syncing to Miley Cyrus's Party in the USA and thanked supporters for their 'kind' words in a Facebook post tribute.

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
 

Bullfighter is gored in the face at Spain's biggest arena

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bullfighter Daniel García Navarrete, 23, was gored several times (pictured) by a 1,000lb bull in Spain's biggest arena, Las Ventas, in Madrid. The attack was witnessed by a horrified audience of 10,000 who originally thought he had been struck just once in the thigh. But after being rushed to hospital in a serious condition, doctors revealed that he had been pierced four times, twice in the neck and the other two through his jaw. Shocking footage shows the bullfighter being flipped into the air and thrown to the ground before the giant animal repeatedly gores him with its horns.

Senior North Korea defector Thae Yong Ho said that the world should be prepared for a nuclear war because 'desperate' Kim Jong Un 'can do anything beyond the normal imagination'.

Erdogan urged voters in Europe not to listen to 'three or four European fascists' and to support the proposed changes that would give him sweeping presidential powers.

Julian Assange has been holed up in Ecuador's tiny embassy in London for nearly five years, protected by Ecuador's current leftist government from extradition to Sweden over rape allegations.

The hijacking of the small ship happened Saturday as the vessel passed through the narrow channel between Yemen's Socotra island and the Somali coast.

The photographs show the remains of the Atlantic Conveyor, Chinook, and Puma helicopters, as well as the Eton range and the San Carlos memorial after the brutal battle between Argentina and the UK.

Activists are stepping up efforts to persuade villagers on the Sulawesi island of Indonesia to stop consuming the critically endangered macaque monkeys and other exotic creatures.

A couple were camping in the Siegaue Nature Reserve, near Bonn, Germany, when the man (a facial composite pictured above), threatened them with a machete on Sunday.

The 18-year-old broke into the sheltered housing in Neuenhaus in Betheim and sneaked into two rooms including that of a paralyzed 59-year-old man to rape him and another victim, police say.

WORLD NEWS

       

Man 'shot by ISIS sniper for accepting water from troops'

Shocking pictures show the victim in the marksman's crosshairs (main) moments after he had picked up bottles of water from the back of a truck in Iraq. The Iraqi Army, which released the images on its Twitter account, say the man was then shot dead. It is not yet clear where or when the pictures were taken. It is not yet clear where or when the pictures were taken, but government forces say they were originally released by ISIS. It comes as it was claimed the terror group is deploying feared female snipers (file picture, top left) in a bid to defend its Mosul stronghold from advancing Iraqi forces.

The thugs are targeting children by hiding deadly devices in innocent objects like dolls as well as hiding them under carpets and even in fridges as they retreat from towns in Syria.

Abdul Waheed, 50, the shrine's custodian and two accomplices have been charged with the murder of 20 worshippers at the Sufi shrine to Mohammad Ali Gujjar in Punjab province.

A German tourist has accused two men of taking her captive and raping her in southern India, just weeks after the rape and murder of an Irish woman in Goa.

COMMENT
 

When people are murdered, it is normal for those who knew the victims to speak of their good qualities. But the tributes to the Wilkinson family, seemed especially heartfelt, writes DOMINIC LAWSON.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Motorists who switched to diesel cars to avail of generous tax incentives introduced by Labour now face the prospect of paying £20 a day to enter 35 towns and cities across England.

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