This is the heart-stopping moment a heroic firefighter hurriedly carries a flaming gas canister down some steps from a residential building and ditches it away from people before it can explode. But first, the brave firefighter, who risked his life to remove the dangerous object from the residential building, has to stop to put snow on his gloves after apparently suffering some burns while carrying the flaming canister down some steps. The incident, during which the gas canister seems to be on the verge of exploding, took place in the ...

A painting which was sold to German-American film director William Dieterle in 1940 to avoid it being destroyed by the Nazis during World War II is set to be auctioned by Christie's in London for GBP 35 million. The oil painting, named 'The Foxes', is set to be the centrepiece of Christie's '20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale' on 1st March. It was painted by expressionist painter Franz Marc (1880-1916), considered by many to be the father of modernism, in 1913. Franz Marc's painting named The Foxes (1913) which will be ...

A watch and a ring seized by the Nazis from a resistance fighter who died in a concentration camp have been returned to his family. Josep Verges was a Catalan resistance fighter who was deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg, in northern Germany, where he died in 1945, and his watch and ring were set to be returned to his descendants on Saturday, 29th January. The Government of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain said in a statement obtained by Newsflash that Verges was born on 22nd April 1918 in ...

This is the moment a van driver who is high on drugs and dressed only in his boxer shorts rams a police car in Coventry six times. The incident has seen the young man found guilty of two counts of attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm on police officers. West Midlands Police named the defendant as Paul Neelan, 29, adding that the incident took place on Hancock Green in the city of Coventry. Wrecked police car after being repeatedly rammed by the suspect Paul Neelan (29) in Coventry in West ...

A couple in Idaho has been arrested for breaking 14 bones in a seven-week-old baby girl's body during the horrific sex abuse ordeal they allegedly inflicted on her. Medics raised the alarm after noticing trauma to the child's genital area and a bloody nappy. Nicholas T. Branson, 26, and his partner Hailey N. Harris, also 26, have both been charged with felony injury to a child, while Branson has also been charged with the forcible sexual penetration of a child by a foreign object. Hailey N. Harris, 26, stands accused ...