'Putin's chef' tours Russian prisons to recruit cons into deadly mercenary group

Chris Pine has had many viral moments while promoting “Don’t Worry Darling” with his co-stars at the Venice Film Festival.

Firefighters were called to a street in Oldham after a blaze broke out in a takeaway.

Queen Elizabeth II made history on Tuesday, both accepting the resignation of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and appointing new Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Truss is England's third female prime minister and the 15th prime minister to serve during the queen's 70-year reign. Breaking tradition, the 96-year-old reigning monarch chose to relocate the symbolic events due to her ongoing health and mobility issues.

Priyanka Chopra spent Labor Day soaking up all the baby cuddles. The 40-year-old actress shared a sweet snap of herself holding she and husband Nick Jonas’ daughter, Malti, on Monday. “My whole ❤️,” she captioned the pic on her Instagram Stories, which shows her looking adoringly at the baby girl whose face is covered with a white heart emoji.

Former  star Pauley Perrette says she suffered a «massive stroke» last year, and is opening up about her experience on the anniversary of the health scare. The actress took to Twitter on Friday to explain the obstacles she's faced with her health as well as the loss of her loved ones. In the video, Perrette appears with rainbow-dyed hair while she directly addresses her followers. «It's 9/2.

Neighbouring residents crying "foul" over plans to build a floodlit sports ground on the site of a former primary school building look set for disappointment. The scheme to build a new multi-use games area (MUGA) on the footprint of the old Acre Hall Primary School building in Flixton looks likely to be approved.

Rio Ferdinand said he hopes reports that Erik ten Hag has banished Phil Jones from Manchester United's dressing room are wide of the mark.

Russian underwear has been labelled as the “best contraception ever” by raucous Twitter users. The strange pants – which carry the infamous Z symbol on the front – were spotted in a local market in Tver, Russia.

Russia and Ukraine after the latter's president has promised to attack Russian troops who refuse to leave a nuclear plant.The Russians have ignored calls to demilitarise the Zaporizhia nuclear plant they have seized as atomic energy chiefs say the actions of Vladimir Putin's troops have caused the risk of a repeat of the nuclear disaster that occurred in 1986.Russia was accused of "nuclear blackmail" by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and has warned Putin that his soldiers will have no option but to attack the Russians should they continue firing at citizens.READ MORE:Three fighter Brits in Ukraine face death penalty in disgraceful Russian secret trialsZelenskyy called the Russian troops "special targets" as 500 of them are currently placed at the nuclear plant since storming the site in March while Ukrainian technicians continue to run reactors.Petro Kotin, the boss of the company that run the plant, said that there are 174 containers of radioactive material currently in danger of being hit, in a situation that could become reminiscent of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster that was rated at seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale, which is the maximum severity of a nuclear event.He said: “We could have a radiation cloud.

Vladimir Putin’s closest allies may have revealed the next country on Russia's hitlist, according to an expert. Ever since the despot launched his invasion of Ukraine in February this year, there have been fears that Putin’s aims may reach further afield.

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who became a symbol of fearless dissent when she interrupted a live TV broadcast in March to protest her country’s invasion of Ukraine, has been placed under house arrest in Moscow pending a trial related to a fresh anti-war protest in July.

Steven Seagal has been seen visiting a Russian prison camp in Ukraine, days after an explosion killed 50 prisoners.The actor, who is a vocal supporter of President Vladimir Putin, was photographed this week looking through the bars of the Russian-controlled camp at the prisoners inside.On 29 July, the prison – which is based in Olenivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine – was the site of an explosion that killed 50.As reported by the Mail Online, Ukraine’s military claimed Russia had ‘deliberately planned’ the transfer of some prisoners to new premises before the explosion.They suggested it was evidence of the ‘planned nature of this crime and its commission by the, Russian side.’However Russia claims Ukraine ordered the attack to stop prisoners from giving information to their captors.Seagal has a special relationship with Russia and often praises its leader, who this year ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine which has devastated the country.In 2016, the Under Siege actor was made a special envoy of Russia and given an exceptional passport to the country.Seagal had hailed Putin as ‘one of the greatest world leaders, if not the greatest world leader, alive today,’ and called his annexation of Crimea ‘reasonable’.Following the comments and special treatment from Russia, Seagal was banned from entering Ukraine for five years from 2017.Now however, the actor has been seen in the eastern region of the country as he checked out the damage done to the prison.The actor was pictured staring at the prisoners, his hands gripping the bars of the cage.He was later pictured standing inside the prison, seemingly musing over the massive damage done by the explosion, and sitting on a bench examining shrapnel.To view this

Russia has warned 'Armageddon' could be on the horizon in a terrifying warning aired on state TV.The ominous message was released after tensions around the Zaporizhzia atomic power plant grew this week. Ukrainian leaders accused Russia of “deliberately shelling” the plant, which is the biggest in Europe.

Vladimir Putin's closest aides has warned him that the West is seeking to “destroy Russia ”. The worrying message came from former-president Dmitry Medvedev, and was part of a rant about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.He is now the deputy head of the Russian security council.

Russia has fired several military commanders due to the “poor performance” during the invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence claims.

Russian solidiers" are burning the bodies of dead Ukrainians in mobile incinerators on the frontline to mask the amount of civilians they have slaughtered, according to a report.British war correspondent David Patrikarakos reported on Saturday that Vladimir Putin's forces in Kherson, in Kherson Oblast in the south of Ukraine, are burning Ukrainians "day and night" to mask the amount of civilian casualties.Putin’s soldiers are trying to do away with mass graves because they “leave behind evidence of war crimes," Patrikarakos added. READ MORE: Rugby star 'caught ex giving oral sex to teammate before punching window'“Vladimir Putin’s paranoid soldiers are burning the corpses of Ukrainian citizens tortured and murdered on suspicion of helping the resistance,” wrote Patrikarakos in a report for the Daily Mail.“The incinerators fill Kherson with the reek of charred flesh,” he continued.

Ukrainian forces to use inflatable dummy tanks to lure Vladimir Putin’s forces into an ambush.The T-72 decoys are covered with camouflage nets to look real and left in an open area to ensure Russian forces see them.Then President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s troops wait to draw their prey into what the SAS call the “kill grid”.READ MORE: Putin may beg Kim Jong-un for support as 100,000 soldiers set to help Russian war effortA senior military source said: “This is a classic tactic, a come-on, which allows you to lure your enemy to a position where you attack from a position of strength.“This is an ideal deception move as well. You make the enemy think you have armour in that area and change his plans.”Meanwhile, The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) raised grave concerns on Saturday (July 6) about the shelling the previous day at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, saying the action showed the risk of a nuclear disaster.Both sides accused each other of engaging in "nuclear terrorism".

Prince Charles' charity received a whopping £300k donation from an "unsavoury character" and it's emerged that a Russian oligarch forked out the sum as part of a £3million pledge.The Prince’s Foundation was the beneficiary of the sum from a charity run by Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor in 2020, despite the fertiliser billionaire being named on a "Putin list" released by the US Treasury two years earlier. The sum was paid before the war in Ukraine.

Uri Geller has issued a warning to Russian president Vladimir Putin, saying he will use ‘every last molecule of my Mind Power’ to prevent him from launching a nuclear attack.The spoon-bender and TV personality waded into international politics on Tuesday with a video he posted to Twitter, highlighting a letter he said he had sent to the Russian powers that be.Published with the caption ‘Read my warning which I sent to the Kremlin’, the 75-year-old stood in front of a screen showing Putin and a nuclear mushroom cloud.Discussing international nuclear powers, the illusionist, who bought a Scottish island where he believes witch bones are buried, shared his worry that Scotland was at risk, due to its naval bases.‘This is serious stuff and I have a warning for you, Putin,’ he added.Geller then approached the camera to loom closely into the lens, continuing: ‘I urge you all to read my warning, all of you, and I’m serious about it.

Vladimir Putin's former aide has been pictured in hospital partially paralysed and unable to close his eyes amid rumours of a possible poisoning. Anatoly Chubais, 67, was once the Kremlin's chief-of-staff and Russia's deputy prime minister.

A woman heading up the Thornhill-based HALO Trust’s demining task force in Ukraine admits a tough job got even harder after Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of the country.