All news for 2024-05-17

The emergency services were called to Cromwell Road yesterday afternoon

The ’weapon’ had been carried by a student

A man is fighting for his life after a stabbing in Longsight. The man, aged in his 20s, was knifed on Slade Lane earlier on Friday evening.

The UK’s ’Gypsy billionaire’ celebrated on a £9million superyacht and splashed out on a £500,000 Rolls Royce after his Rich List success.

Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk were separated by security after their final weigh-in ahead of Saturday’s undisputed heavyweight title fight in Saudi Arabia.

Experts call for higher taxes and tougher regulation as research shows cost to NHS, other public services and economy

Chancellor also criticised for ‘dodgy dossier’ on Labour plans as he aims to make low tax a key election issue

Italian authorities have put 11 suspects under house arrest as part of a crackdown on a VAT fraud ring that has deprived the budget of the European Union as well as national budgets of more than 25 million euros (US$27.17 million).

Police in Ukraine have accused the director of an energy supply company in Kyiv of embezzling more than 67 million hryvnias (US$1.7 million) from the state budget by selling electricity at inflated prices to a department within the State Water Resources Agency.

Spme 150 passengers have been locked down in their cabin in Tenerife with a further 250 confirmed cases of the virus in the last four days - with holidaymakers describing violent bouts of sickness and toilets ’covered in excrement’

A woman who ran a multi-million pound touting business which bought and sold tickets on an "industrial scale" has been jailed.

Vladimir Putin is not on the guest list, but Russian representatives have been invited to take part in WWII anniversary ceremony.

Three hostages snatched from the Supernova music festival during the Hamas rampage into Israel on October 7 have been found dead in Gaza.

Ahmed Ali Alid, 45, told police after his arrest that the attack was "for the people of Gaza" and that if he had access to a machine gun he would have killed more people.

Hundreds of people – including children – face lengthy prison sentences under harsh Greek anti-smuggling law

An entire town in California has been put on the market for $6.6 million (£5.2m).

Aleksander Toots, the Deputy Director General of the Estonian Internal Security Service (KAPO) and the long-time head of Estonian counterintelligence, resigned at the end of March.