All news for 2024-08-20

Supercentenarian who died in her sleep had lived through two world wars and Spain’s civil war

Nigel Farage is the keynote speaker at Saturday’s “Keep Arizona Free Summit”, and the Clacton MP - and Reform UK leader - has already been paid an upfront deposit of nearly £12,000 for the speech.

The body of a man recovered near the Bayesian yacht is believed to be that of Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian-Antiguan chef who was working on the boat

Mohammed Akram, 64, denied any wrongdoing but was convicted of nine charges involving the serious sexual and physical abuse of three women across Forth Valley, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The Bayesian superyacht is still largely intact on the seabed, but the depth makes it difficult to access, and the time window divers have make searches incredibly tight.

Stephen Chamberlain was VP of finance for Autonomy, the firm co-founded by British tech tycoon missing in Sicily

Irmgard Furchner, 99, was found guilty in 2022 of being an accessory to killings at Stutthof concentration camp

A block of flats has caught on fire in south-east London with 70 firefighters called to put out the blaze.

Newly released CCTV footage has shown the moment the Bayesian superyacht was engulfed by a suspected waterspout.

A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves.

The Nigerian president’s son owned an offshore company with the son of a tycoon who recently received the contract to build a 700-kilometer highway spanning the West African country’s coast, leaked corporate documents reveal.

It Ain’t Half Hot Mum star John Clegg, who was best known as Gunner Graham, has died, aged 90, with tributes pouring in for the BBC actor

Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, often referred to as the British Bill Gates, is reportedly missing after his Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm on Monday.

Rocket Factory Augsburg reports that an ‘anomaly’ caused the ‘loss of the stage,’ confirming no injuries occurred.

The TV personality launched his namesake show in 1967 and covered wide-ranging issues for over 6,000 episodes

The first £1 coins featuring King Charles III are entering circulation this week.

Passengers have been warned of disruption on the rail network after signalling fault in Suffolk this morning.