All news for 2024-08-19

Police in São Paulo have frozen bank accounts holding over a billion dollars in an anti-money laundering operation that highlights the growing use of cryptocurrency by Brazil’s most powerful prison gang...

Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn, so defendants can be held in police cells as more are sentenced over riots

Nigerian authorities arrested 16 suspects and seized 63 illegal refineries across the country in a week-long operation aimed at combating crude oil theft, which has plagued the oil industry for years.

Professor Chris Whitty, the UK’s chief medical officer, joined government ministers in assessing the UK’s readiness for any potential outbreak of a new variant of mpox.

Michael Franzese had plans of becoming a doctor but ended up running a scam that made him a more successful mob boss than Al Capone

Angus Robertson says he should have only met Israel’s deputy UK ambassador in order to discuss Gaza ceasefire

Donna Conniff, 40, encouraged boy to throw missile at police and was seen kicking out at an officer

Climate campaigners criticise decision to allow capacity to increase from 6.5m to 9m passengers a year

Rumours of Vladimir Putin body doubles have been circulating for a while and now speculation is rife about the Russian president again.

The Tax Justice Network said trillions could be raised with a ‘featherlight’ tax on the 0.5% of richest households, copying a current Spanish tax

Five motorcyclists have died after two horror crashes on country roads in Derbyshire.

The SS Richard Montgomery sank in August 1944 when it hit a sandbank with a huge payload of explosives, which could trigger a massive 3,000-metre tsunami toward London

Teenager Jay Slater went missing on the Spanish island of Tenerife in June, sparking a month-long search which ultimately resulted in his remains being found in a ravine