All news for 2024-08-04

FSB Lieutenant General Vladislav Menshchikov, chief of the FSB’s First Service (counterintelligence), has recently come under scrutiny.

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz met in the final of the men’s singles at the Olympic Games in a repeat of the last two Wimbledon men’s singles finals, with plenty at stake

"Desperation" is behind a sharp rise in the number of reports of energy theft or meter tampering, according to a fuel poverty charity.

An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, the Palestinian official news agency said, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools.

Organisers say a second known sex offender at the Olympics, hired by China, has now left the Paris 2024 Games.

A six-month-old baby has died after being left in a hot car for seven hours.

Foreign minister’s rare visit to Tehran appears likely to fail given Iranian insistence on making a decisive response

Courts could sit for 24 hours to rapidly remove rioters from streets, but there are no plans to bring in army

Video footage shows the moment when violent far-right rioters dragged an Asian man out of his car and smashed it up.

The Filipino NHS workers were targeted by rioters in Sunderland, leaving them "terrified" as they headed to work in taxis to provide emergency cover amid violence breaking out

Malaysia has become the first country to issue a travel warning to its citizens going to the UK - following a week of violent disorder in major cities such as Liverpool, Hull, Manchester and Rotherham

A British man, 77, was arrested in Ibiza after refusing to pay a huge restaurant bill. The man was dining with five other women, who were also arrested by police

Merseyside Police said a number of police officers were injured tackling serious disorder in Liverpool city centre because thugs threw bricks and other missiles at them