Mail Online • 17th August 2025

Influencers sparks backlash 'glamourising' Taliban-run Afghanistan

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 01:13, 17 August 2025 | Updated: 02:16, 17 August 2025 It's been four years since the Taliban returned to power and began erasing women from public life in Afghanistan.But today, female travel influencers are gushing over their trips to Kabul despite Western countries strongly advising against travelling to a nation where the threat of terrorism and kidnapping is extremely high.A small but growing number of content creators have been s...

Mail Online • 14th July 2025

How honour killings are STILL happening to this day

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 20:45, 14 July 2025 | Updated: 23:06, 14 July 2025 Every year, thousands of women around the world are brutally murdered in so-called 'honour killings' – a horrific crime in which perpetrators attempt to justify their violence by claiming the victim has brought shame upon the family.Seeking a divorce, having sex outside, or defying a dress code can be enough to cost a woman her life in some communities - where the heinous acts are not...

Mail Online • 10th July 2025

My family tried to murder me in an attempted honour killing

20:13, 10 Jul 2025, updated

15:07, 11 Jul 2025



By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Nina Aouilk was just 21 when she was left for dead, lying in a pool of blood, after her own father tried to murder her in an alleged 'honour killing'.

The horrific attack reportedly followed years of abuse, including a brutal rape, being tied up for days, and having her face forced into her own urine.

Ms Aouilk, who was born in the UK but has Punjabi...

Mail Online • 7th June 2025

Tragic stories behind sea creatures neglected in marine parks

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN Published: 08:29, 7 June 2025 | Updated: 15:42, 7 June 2025 They swim in dizzying circles, they go blind and they die slowly. This is the miserable existence endured by many of the sea creatures kept in captivity.Some of the most disturbing cases of animal abuse in living memory have unfolded at marine parks.Behind smiling trainers posing for photos and animals performing tricks for cheering crowds, creatures are suffering in silence.Animal rights activists have spent...

Mail Online • 6th June 2025

Israel issues evacuation warning to Gaza residents

13:05, 06 Jun 2025, updated

16:55, 06 Jun 2025



By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

The Israeli military has issued an evacuation order for residents of parts of Gaza City ahead of an attack.

'This is a final and urgent warning ahead of an impending strike,' army spokesman Avichay Adraee said today.

The army 'will strike all areas from which rockets are launched', he added.

The evacuation order comes at the beginning of the Eid al-Adha holiday, one of the...

Mail Online • 27th May 2025

I'm the world's smallest football coach ... the hate is never-ending

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN Published: 20:50, 27 May 2025 | Updated: 20:52, 27 May 2025 Despite standing at just 3ft 7in tall, Connor Sanderson insists he is just like any other PE teacher.The 21-year-old from Salisbury was born with sacral agenesis - a rare congenital condition which means he has no femurs and an abnormal pelvis.Doctors told Connor's parents he was unlikely to survive for long and would certainly never be able to walk.But the Arsenal fan refuses to let his disability define him...

Mail Online • 21st May 2025

I'm an award-winning skydiver and woke up with my left leg GONE

By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

20:45 21 May 2025, updated 21:14 21 May 2025
An award-winning skydiver who recently woke up to find his leg had been amputated has recounted the horrific details of his ordeal - while revealing his plans to take to the skies for a world-record attempt this summer.German sportsman Olav Zipser, who lives in Thailand, visited the doctors after his toe turned blue and he was struck by a 'sudden and i...

Mail Online • 19th April 2025

Animal lover who went viral for punching a man getting death threats

13:39, 19 Apr 2025, updated 15:35, 19 Apr 2025 By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

An animal-loving vigilante who went viral for punching a man who was beating a donkey in Egypt says she would do it again despite receiving death threats.

Dutch expat Joke Van der Post was filmed attacking the animal's handler after she saw him repeatedly lashing it while it stood tethered to a wall on the outskirts of Cairo.

Footage shows the 47-year-old running at the man, striking him several times before chasing him wit...

Mail Online • 18th April 2025

Trump is ready to walk away from Ukraine-Russia peace deal efforts

09:38, 18 Apr 2025, updated 04:10, 19 Apr 2025 By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

Donald Trump is ready to walk away from trying to negotiate a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless progress is made, a top US official has warned.

If the president doesn't see signs that an agreement is on the horizon he will call it a day because he has 'other priorities' to focus on, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.

'We're not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end. So we...

Mail Online • 12th April 2025

Six-year-old's question after learning her dad was left brain-dead

By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

02:06 12 Apr 2025, updated 09:18 12 Apr 2025
A six-year-old girl begged her mother not to cry after learning that her 'brilliant' father's ear infection had suddenly left him brain-dead - before asking if he’d still have McDonalds in heaven. Brave Ella Barnard will say goodbye to her doting father Lee, 36, today after his family made the agonising decision to turn off his life support.Mr Barnard,...

Mail Online • 12th April 2025

Manchester Arena terrorist 'attacks prison officers with cooking oil'

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN Published: 17:25, 12 April 2025 | Updated: 23:27, 12 April 2025 A Manchester Arena terrorist has 'attacked three prison officers with cooking oil and makeshift weapons', according to the Prison Officers' Association (POA).The officers received life-threatening injuries after being assaulted by Hashem Abedi at HMP Frankland, County Durham, on Saturday, the union said.Abedi, 28, is serving life at the high-security prison for helping his brother plot 22 murders in the Ma...

Mail Online • 30th March 2025

I'm a stripper... People think it's easy but it's a dangerous job

By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

20:09 30 Mar 2025, updated 20:14 30 Mar 2025
It is common knowledge that the jobs of pilots, miners and soldiers are thought to be among the world's most dangerous.But, there is one line of work where the men claim the risks are severely underestimated.While a pilot could be faced with an engine failure, a miner with a collapsing tunnel and a soldier with rounds of bullets, those in the exotic da...

Mail Online • 16th March 2025

Number of men becoming secondary teachers plummets to record low

By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

15:33 16 Mar 2025, updated 15:43 16 Mar 2025
The number of men becoming secondary school teachers in the UK has fallen to a record low - sparking fears boys are turning to toxic male role models in their absence.Shocking figures show the proportion of male secondary school teachers has dropped from 46 per cent in 1994 to just 35 per cent today.Experts are concerned this could leave impressionable...

Mail Online • 19th February 2025

Bargain Hunt star DAVID DICKINSON addresses retirement rumours

By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

00:54 19 Feb 2025, updated 01:13 19 Feb 2025
Bargain Hunt legend David Dickinson has revealed the best places to bag an heirloom and the one location he wouldn't bother going to.In an exclusive interview with MailOnline the antiques expert, 83, also addressed rumors about his retirement plans before divulging his tricks of the trade.Mr Dickinson, also known as The Duke, has been a household name...

Mail Online • 14th February 2025

Made in Chelsea star tells of being targeted in paint-throwing scam

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN Published: 01:09, 14 February 2025 | Updated: 01:44, 14 February 2025 A made in Chelsea star who was targeted in a terrifying new paint-throwing scam has told of the moment she realised something was wrong.Yasmine Zweegers, 25, had £8,000 worth of jewellery and belongings stolen from her while she waited outside London's St Pancras International station, in King's Cross, on Sunday evening.The influencer - who was with her mum at the time - was about to get into an Uber...

Mail Online • 8th February 2025

Tear-jerking moment stolen dog reunited with her owners after 8 years

00:39, 08 Feb 2025, updated 02:01, 08 Feb 2025 By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

A tear-jerking video captured the emotional moment a stolen dog was reunited with her owners after eight years.

Pensioners Rita and Philip Potter, from Norfolk, had been searching for Labrador, Daisy, since she was 'cruelly' snatched from their garden in 2017.

Despite so many years passing since the couple lost their beloved pet they never gave up hope that one day they would see her again.

And, last weekend, Rita's prayer...

Mail Online • 7th February 2025

Huge trees crushed my farm home causing £50,000 of damage

11:10, 07 Feb 2025, updated

11:16, 07 Feb 2025



By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

A grandmother has been 'living in 'hell on earth' since huge trees crushed her farm after forestry experts failed to cut them down.

Alyson King, 63, was 'devastated' when the spruces fell onto her Dumfries and Galloway property during a storm, causing more than £50,000 worth of damage.

Despite being promised compensation, now, more than ten years later, the 63-year-old hasn...

Mail Online • 6th February 2025

Pet treat almost killed my dog and left me with a £3,500 vet bill

20:17, 06 Feb 2025, updated

17:17, 07 Feb 2025



By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN
and
TOM LAWRENCE

A popular pet treat almost killed a black labrador after it was lodged in the dog's stomach - and left the owner with a whopping £3,500 vet bill.

Businessman Nigel Huxley, 55, from Cheshire, had bought his dog Parker a Webbox Mega Meaty Serrano Ham Bone to keep him occupied.

But just two days later Parker started 'panting excessively' and was '...

Mail Online • 5th February 2025

Banksy fans' fury as builders begin dismantling iconic goat artwork

By IWAN STONE and OLIVIA ALLHUSEN and GEMMA PARRY Published: 19:10, 5 February 2025 | Updated: 01:47, 6 February 2025 Builders have started to dismantle Banksy's iconic goat above Kew Bridge - to the heartbreak of art-loving locals.The graffiti from the anonymous artist was only sprayed onto the south west London property in August and has become a beloved part of the tight-knit community. It was the first of a series of six gorilla artworks painted over six days across London last summ...

Mail Online • 31st December 2024

Farmers hit with ban on festive lights 'won't go down without a fight'

00:01, 31 Dec 2024, updated

00:04, 31 Dec 2024



By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

OAP farm park owners facing legal action over their £200,000 Christmas light display have vowed they 'won't go down without a fight'.

Mike Attwell put up the light trail at Attwell Farm Park in Worcestershire to give visitors - a large proportion of whom are terminally ill or disabled - some festive fun.

But the 80-year-old was shocked when, despite his good intentions, he...

Mail Online • 29th December 2024

Interactive map reveals England's fattest areas

07:58, 29 Dec 2024, updated

09:12, 29 Dec 2024



By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

England's fattest areas where nearly 80 per cent of people are overweight have been revealed.

In places with the highest rates of overweight people as many as 34 per cent of the population are classed as clinically obese, sobering figures show.

It comes as the NHS struggles to cope with the intensifying crisis which sees thousands of hospital admissions from conditions that...

Mail Online • 26th December 2024

I spent 30 days in a torturous rarely travelled part of the Amazon

By

OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

07:50 26 Dec 2024, updated 08:59 26 Dec 2024
As he struggled through the impenetrable Amazon Rainforest with potential death on all sides, Ash Dykes wondered if he had finally bitten off more than he could chew.The 33-year-old had made the 4,500-mile journey from the UK to the former Dutch colony of Suriname in high spirits with his best friends, determined to become the first people to travel fr...

Mail Online • 29th November 2024

JK Rowling leads women's rights condemnation of the Fawcett Society

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN Published: 14:53, 29 November 2024 | Updated: 16:11, 29 November 2024 JK Rowling has slammed a trans-inclusive women's charity after it posed up with Sadiq Khan for the Suffragette Line unveiling.The picture sparked outrage yesterday with the Harry Potter author accusing the Fawcett Society of 'cosying up with the political elite' while fellow women's rights campaigners stand at the Supreme Court 'fighting for actual women'.The Fawcett Society - named after famous suff...

Mail Online • 5th November 2024

Brits reveal if they would prefer Trump or Harris to win 2024 election

17:33, 05 Nov 2024, updated 23:00, 05 Nov 2024 By MIRIAM KUEPPER and NATASHA NELLIS and OLIVIA ALLHUSEN

Britons have revealed whether they want Donald Trump or Kamala Harris to win the 2024 US presidential election.

MailOnline took to England's streets to poll the public ahead of the historic vote on the eve of the election - and found that many prefer the idea of a clean start with Harris to a second chance for former president Trump.

'Harris is obviously the better one for women's right...