An Italian actor who played a wannabe gangster in the film Gomorrah has been accused of posing as a police officer as part of a nationwide scam to fleece more than €700,000 from the elderly.

Human ear muscles that ­scientists long believed were vestigial & or without function & are actually activated when we are trying to listen hard, a new study has found.

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a makeshift displacement centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, she is scared to return home.

The &America First& rubber is hitting the road. After months of threats, the Trump administration has formally imposed tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, as well as an additional tax on Chinese goods & the United States& three biggest trade partners.