Grandad says 'karaoke saved my life' after savage North East street attack

Norman Cooke lost everything after he was battered by two young thugs he had never met before

Four-year-old Taras, who now resides at a Minnesota sanctuary, was diagnosed with an often fatal infection A lion that escaped the war in Ukraine after being found as a four-month-old cub inside a duffel bag at Odesa railway station is facing an even greater battle for survival in his new home in Minnesota from a rare