All news for 2024-08-21

Amount paid to 15 firms and two barristers chambers since 2014 is almost equal to payouts for victims

Agency says foreign gangs not safe from prosecution in UK and plans new recording label to track extent of the crime

US fast-food firm to open more than 200 restaurants as part of £1bn plan that will focus on high street locations

A law student who fell to her death from a hotel balcony in Ibiza has been pictured.

A 40-year-old Zambian national, who was apprehended on Sunday after landing at South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport, has been identified as a key player in a transnational organized crime syndicate involved in kidnapping, ransom, and crystal meth distribution in the country.

Nigerian authorities arrested a man attempting to smuggle 88 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.7 kilograms, in his stomach from Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to Vietnam.

Police reported that when the driver tried to stop his van from being stolen, the suspect sped off, leaving the victim partially hanging from the passenger door of the vehicle.

Robert Jenrick has said he would be "delighted" to include Boris Johnson in his shadow cabinet if he won the Tory leadership contest.

Police have identified the mother and three children who died in a tragic Bradford house fire, suspected to be a domestic incident. A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

David Daintree, 53, was found dead after ambulances and police were called.

Russian deserter who escaped after being wounded in Ukraine reveals the brutal conditions on the front lines, including forced contracts, extrajudicial executions, and rampant substance abuse among soldiers.

UK government to boost staff, crack down on employers, in bid to fight people smuggling.

Fourteen charities say the government has a ‘huge opportunity’ to support people living in poverty with their water costs.

The family of Sadik Duraku, a British citizen detained in Serbia on war crimes charges, is calling on the UK government for more support.

The victims were aged between 14 and 16 at the time.

Three-year campaign by parents of aid worker killed in Afghanistan brings 19 trainee doctors to Scotland

Mike Lynch, a top lawyer who was part of his fraud trial and a key defence witness are just three of the six still missing after the tech tycoon’s yacht sunk in a tornado off Sicily.

A young girl has been stabbed in a block of flats in Christchurch, Dorset.