All news for 2024-12-15

Activist tells public inquiry Andy Coles lied about his age and manipulated her into relationship when she was 19

Foreign secretary says Britain is also working diplomatically to secure better governance in Syria after ousting of Assad

Witnesses tell of ‘apocalyptic scenes’ after worst storm to hit the Indian Ocean territory in almost a century

Victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime were silenced for years - but after the Syrian president was toppled by rebel forces, they can now speak out about the torture they faced

Russian snipers continue to receive thousands of Western-made rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition, despite years of extensive international sanctions.

£70,000 worth of stolen whisky has been discovered by police in the back of a lorry after a motorway chase on the M606 near Bradford.

A woman has died and two people left injured in a ‘drive-by shooting’ after a wake in north London.

Royal insiders fear Prince Andrew’s links to an alleged Chinese spy could overshadow the good work of King Charles and Prince William - but the monarch has come to two realisations, a source claims

At least 13 crewmen have been thrown overboard after a Russian oil tanker reportedly split in two as large waves battered the vessel off the coast of occupied Ukraine

West Midlands Police are hunting a hit-and-run driver after a two-year-old boy was killed in a horror car crash involving a stolen Porsche in Dartmouth Road, Smethwick

The owners of the Qmall crypto exchange have stooped from bandit "raids" to petty "show-offs".

A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona.

Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil’s Amazon to the United States, Dubai and Italy.

Campaigners fear lives could be put at risk as government sets record number of deportations