It's a little before 5am and the impact of the first Russian ballistic missile of the night resounds along the Dnieper River below my hotel window. Cruise missiles and Shahed drones will arrive before breakfast is served.
In the room next door, a soldier on leave and his girlfriend are engaged in unabashedly noisy lovemaking – as if there will be no tomorrow, as well there might not. Death is always in the shadows here, if not waiting up the road, particularly if you're in uniform.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor enjoyed a private naked massage in a bedroom at Buckingham Palace - all paid for using a cheque from the Palace, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The shamed former prince snuck professional masseuse Monique Giannelloni into the late Queen's official residence after she was recommended to him by Ghislaine Maxwell.
The mysterious masked figure who was seen trying to obscure Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera on the night of her abduction had apparently visited the house before.
Federal investigators released eerie footage of the unidentified suspect standing at Guthrie's front door in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona in the early morning hours on February 1.
Punch, a six-month-old Japanese macaque monkey with enormous round eyes, long spindly arms and an adorable potbelly, has no idea that outside the four walls of his enclosure he’s a global celebrity.
On February 5, Ichikawa City Zoo – 20 miles outside Tokyo – posted a picture online of Punch clinging desperately to an orangutan soft toy from Ikea alongside a heartbreaking caption that revealed the infant had been abandoned by his mother.
It seemed like the flat-share of my dreams. Just 30 minutes from work, only £850 a month (bills included) and in chi-chi Hampstead, north London, with its bars and restaurants and the glorious heath a stone’s throw away.
I snapped the letting agent’s hand off and moved in last summer.
A mother and her seven-year-old daughter who were killed in a car crash in Surrey have been pictured.
Mary Michelle Devine, 43, from Portsmouth, and little Theia Papworth were killed in the single-car smash when their red Ford Fiesta left the carriageway near Hindhead tunnel shortly after 10am on Thursday.
From water to broadband and council tax to electricity, Brits are faced with a constant stream of bills eating into their income.
Now, a new online calculator reveals how long you have to work this year just to cover your essential household costs.
The Greens back legalising prostitution and freeing up access to sexually explicit pornography, a party policy document seen by the Daily Mail has revealed.
Sex work involving consenting adults 'should be decriminalised', while restrictions and censorship of sexually explicit material 'should be ended' – except for those protecting children, the Green Party's official policy states.
More than £430million was spent by just ten councils to transport children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to schools last year, new figures show.
One local authority in England saw its spending on SEND transport soar by almost 700 per cent in a year, with another now forced to shell out up to £600 per head taking children to school.
The heartbroken girlfriend of the Asos founder who mysteriously plunged to his death in Thailand has said she 'can't believe he would kill himself'.
Quentin Griffiths, 58, who was born in London and co-founded the online retail giant, is said to have fallen from the 17th floor of his condominium in Pattaya, a seaside city south of Bangkok, on February 9.
Peter Mandelson was being quizzed late into the night after being arrested at his London home over allegations he leaked sensitive information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein during his time as business secretary.
The disgraced former minister was led away by detectives from the Metropolitan Police's Special Investigations Team – the unit dubbed the Yard's 'Celeb Squad' – on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Aussies heading to Mexico have been urged to reconsider their travel plans after the death of a notorious drug cartel leader sparked gang violence and airport chaos.
Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, who was Mexico's most wanted man and the leader of the feared Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) cartel, was killed during a security operation in the state of Jalisco.
