Mail Online • 21st July 2026

Brit granddad is stranded in Dubai says he is now facing homelessness

19:59, 21 Jul 2026, updated

01:08, 22 Jul 2026



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OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

A British grandfather stranded in Dubai says he faces homelessness within weeks after becoming trapped in a nightmare that has left him unable to work, access a bank account or return home.

Simon Ferguson, 64, originally from Mancot, North Wales, has lived in the UAE for around 20 years but says a series of health problems and financial setbacks have l...

Mail Online • 24th June 2026

Meet Nova - the first dog to live full-time on a psychiatric ward

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 20:12, 24 June 2026 | Updated: 20:15, 24 June 2026 A golden retriever named Nova has become the first dog to live full-time on a psychiatric ward - with her owner crediting the pet for saving her life.Daisy, 21, spent five years in hospital battling severe anorexia, self-harming daily and struggling to speak to those around her.But everything changed when she met Nova - who now lives alongside patients on the ward. The young woman, who...

Mail Online • 17th June 2026

Trump tells G7 leaders 'I'm the boss' as he arrives for meeting

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 12:16, 17 June 2026 | Updated: 12:54, 17 June 2026 Donald Trump joked that he was 'the boss' as he arrived last for the final day of the Group of Seven summit on Wednesday, with the assembled world leaders laughing as he took his seat.The remark came as the G7 threw its support behind the U.S. President's tentative agreement with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and extend a fragile ceasefire.The two sides are due to sign a draft me...

Mail Online • 18th May 2026

BBC presenter embroiled in anti-Semitism row will host City Hall event

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OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

19:50 18 May 2026, updated 08:57 19 May 2026
City Hall has been accused of 'turning a blind eye' after a BBC presenter embroiled in an anti-Semitism row was appointed to host a London youth awards event.A source involved with the London Youth Assembly claimed organisers behind the London Youth Achievement Awards used 'very stringent' vetting processes over politically sensi...

Mail Online • 14th May 2026

Brit travels 10,000km in his wheelchair... to escape UK weather

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 20:50, 14 May 2026 | Updated: 20:50, 14 May 2026 A British wheelchair user with a degenerative condition travelled 10,000km around Africa, hearing gunshots, riding donkey carts and even judging talent contests along the way.Orlando Cardozo, 25, from Mere, Wiltshire, spent months travelling through countries including Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa, enduring journeys lasting up to 16 hours.Orlando, who has Friedreich's atax...

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Mail Online • 22nd April 2026

Brit adventurer now faces blindness after picking up infection in Asia

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 20:11, 22 April 2026 | Updated: 02:39, 23 April 2026 A British adventurer faces going blind after contracting a potentially deadly infection while trying to visit every country in the world.David Simpson, 38, had already visited 150 countries before picking up latent tuberculosis in South Asia.The Belfast local said the illness began attacking his left eye, causing flashing lights and blurred vision and forcing him onto powerful medica...

Mail Online • 18th April 2026

Iran targets cruise ship trying to cross Strait of Hormuz

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and ELEANOR MANN Published: 07:43, 18 April 2026 | Updated: 16:31, 18 April 2026 Iran has opened fire on ships trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz, with a cruise liner caught in the line of fire after the key waterway was shut again, according to maritime sources, as tankers turned around and ran for cover.The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said a cruise ship three nautical miles east of Oman reported seeing a 'splash in close proximity',...

Mail Online • 3rd March 2026

Video: Dubai's image in jeopardy? Iran's strikes lead to influencer exodus | Daily Mail Online

Dubai's image as a glittering safe haven for influencers and football stars has been shattered. Iranian missiles have rained down on the city sending residents scrambling for cover as explosions lit up the night sky.

Dubai's image as a glittering safe haven for influencers and football stars has been shattered. Iranian missiles have rained down on the city sending residents scrambling for cover as explosions lit up the night sky.

Mail Online • 28th February 2026

Brave Iranian student shouts 'I love Trump' as bombs rain on Tehran

06:30, 28 Feb 2026, updated 18:21, 28 Feb 2026 By OLIVIA CHRISTIE, NEWS REPORTER and CLAUDIA AORAHA, DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS and ELIZABETH IVENS and OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

An Iranian schoolboy was filmed shouting 'I love Trump!' as smoke rose over Tehran following US airstrikes on the capital.

Video shared online shows a group of high school students celebrating as plumes billowed into the sky behind them, with one boy heard praising the American president.

The footage emerged...

Mail Online • 7th February 2026

Sailor's year-long hell as Somali pirates' hostage

10:17, 07 Feb 2026, updated

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OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Pralav Dhyani could feel his heart beating out of his chest as an assault rifle was pressed to his head.

'I was s***ting bricks as I waited for him to blow my brains out,' he recalled.

Then just 21, Pralav was one of around two dozen sailors taken hostage by Somali pirates on what was meant to be his first-ever voyage.

'When the gun was an inch from...

Mail Online • 15th November 2025

Wingsuit jumper miraculously survives smashing into rocks

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 08:48, 15 November 2025 | Updated: 16:47, 15 November 2025 This is the heart-stopping moment a base jumper slammed into a cliff face and spiralled out of control – coming within seconds of death before his parachute miraculously deployed.Footage shows 36-year-old Kirill Blukher leaping from a towering cliff in Brazil in his wingsuit before veering too close to the rock face and being knocked unconscious.'I realised mid-exit I might hav...

Mail Online • 12th November 2025

Man may never hold baby after 'medics mistook stroke for drunkness'

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 20:49, 12 November 2025 | Updated: 22:09, 12 November 2025 A young father-to-be may never hold his baby after bungling paramedics mistook his stroke for drunkenness - and he has been in a coma ever since. Ion Chiperi, 22, was in bed with his partner, Doina, who is eight months pregnant, when he suddenly began to feel unwell.'One night he woke me up saying that he couldn't feel his legs. He could barely speak,' Doina told the Daily Mail...

Mail Online • 10th October 2025

Gaza ceasefire begins as IDF troops start withdrawal

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 11:10, 10 October 2025 | Updated: 11:05, 11 October 2025 A ceasefire in Gaza began today after two years of devastating war - following Israel’s overnight approval of President Donald Trump’s peace plan aimed at halting the bloodshed and securing the release of remaining hostages.At noon local time (10am BST), the guns finally fell silent as Israeli troops began withdrawing to new defensive lines under the fragile truce and thousands o...

Mail Online • 2nd October 2025

Thugs threatened to KILL Brit father following violent brawl in hotel

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 00:58, 2 October 2025 | Updated: 14:26, 4 October 2025 Thugs have threatened to kill a British father after their friend died from a brain injury days after he was caught up in a Maltese hotel brawl. Liam Stacey, 29, was relaxing beside the pool with his three young daughters, aged two, three and eight, when a group of locals began exposing themselves to sunbathers.'The Maltese group were being really rowdy, showing their private parts...

Mail Online • 2nd October 2025

Father facing jail in Malta fears 'will not come out of prison alive'

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OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

15:03 02 Oct 2025, updated 14:25 04 Oct 2025

A British father facing jail in Malta after a violent hotel brawl fears he won't survive if imprisoned there.Liam Stacey, 29, was on holiday with his family when he confronted a group of rowdy yobs who were allegedly exposing themselves to sunbathers and pulling a woman by the hair.Stacey asked the group to move away from the children's pool but chaos erupted after one of the men, Roder...

Mail Online • 15th September 2025

Wheelchair user travelling to Brussels on Eurostar ends up Rotterdam

12:39, 15 Sep 2025, updated

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OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

A British wheelchair user travelling to Brussels on the Eurostar ended up in Rotterdam after staff wouldn't help him off the train.

Orlando Cardozo, 24, had arranged for assistance to disembark at the Belgian capital, but when the train arrived on Friday, no one was there to meet him.

Mr Cardozo says he went in search of a ticket collector to ask for...

Mail Online • 3rd September 2025

Fifteen dead and 23 injured as tram smashes into building in Portugal

By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and TARYN KAUR PEDLER, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and NATALIA PENZA Published: 19:09, 3 September 2025 | Updated: 01:56, 4 September 2025 At least fifteen people are dead and 18 more injured after Lisbon's famous Gloria Funicular derailed on Wednesday evening.The tragedy occurred after one of the cables came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and career down a steep hill before colliding with a building at around 6pm.Footage f...

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

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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

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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...