All news for 2024-09-17

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, according to multiple media reports.

The last decade has seen an “appalling” suppression of journalistic freedoms which threatens the core of democratic governance globally, according to Reporters without Borders (RSF).

Businesses back London mayor’s £150m plan but taxi drivers said they think it will be ‘disastrous’

Chancellor preferred for 21-room mansion, in contrast to Tony Blair’s choice of offering it to his deputy John Prescott

Sir Ed Davey has revealed the stunts that he didn’t manage to pull off on the General Election campaign trail this year – including sticking his arm in a cow’s rectum.

The woman, a 30-year-old German national, is said to have had her leg bitten off by the shark as she was on a catamaran in international waters 278 miles south-west of Gran Canaria’s airport

Party official, who ran the field operation for the general election, was the only person on the shortlist

Document runs to 649 pages and includes 169 babies born after the Hamas attacks of 7 October

No immediate comment from Israel as detonations across Lebanon reportedly kill two Shia militia fighters and a 10-year-old girl

The international press is closely watching Pavel Durov’s activities in Paris, where he remains due to a judicial ruling.

Countries opposed to Moscow are spending ever more on cheap fuel made from Russian oil, according to a new analysis shared with POLITICO.

The DWP is contacting everyone who is being moved over to Universal Credit in stages - and when it is your turn, you’ll receive a letter in the post known as a ’migration notice’

Clifford, 26, faces three counts of murder following the deaths of Carol Hunt and her daughters, Louise and Hannah, in a crossbow attack at their home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in July.

Dominique Pélicot, 71, is on trial alongside 50 other men, all of them accused of the ‘aggravated rape’ of his wife Gisèle Péllicot, also 71 - and today admitted drugging her and allowing multiple strangers to attack her

A fire near train tracks in south London has brought journeys to a standstill, with heavy disruption set to last all day.