All news for 2025-01-07

Since it was created by Boris Johnson over the Covid pandemic, the media briefing room in Downing Street has been resplendent in a rich blue.

Tourists filmed themselves laughing at a Muslim woman wearing a niqab at a rooftop restaurant in Dubai.

The man who stoked the Southport riots with a Telegram group he started has been jailed for seven and a half years.

The government is considering reclassifying the Class B drug after an increase in the number of people who reported using the drug.

A former music student guilty of stabbing a friend to death has been jailed for eight years.

A ’valued’ finance manager for a military veterans’ sailing club stole almost £70,000 to fund her gambling and drug habit, a court has heard.

Vuyokazi Sangoni and Poovandaren Chetty, both linked to a high-profile R29 million tender fraud case...

Elon Musk has a desire to buy Premier League club Liverpool, according to the billionaire’s father.

Nigel Farage has declared earnings of more than half a million pounds from second jobs in his first six months as an MP, official records show.

The ringleader of an Asian grooming gang is still living in the town where he committed his horrific crimes...

The bodies were confirmed by officials to have been found inside a JetBlue compartment after it arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida.

Terrified residents harassed by drug addicts and criminals in a posh north London neighbourhood were told by police to play classical music to keep the thugs away.

Craig Peters will serve as CEO of the combined business.

Despite the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) issuing two fraud warnings, a group of die-hard investors continue to promote Auratus and Billionico.

Denise Coates, chief executive of the gambling firm Bet365, took a massive pay cut last year, but still received a package worth almost £158m.

Four people have been taken to hospital after being exposed to excess chlorine at a swimming pool and spa in Derbyshire.

Brudenell-Bruce has accused his late father’s partner of passing herself off as a marchioness at the Ritz.

The Reform UK leader has broken with Musk over a far-right activist. But it’s his plan to win big that’ll keep Keir Starmer up at night.

Ultranationalist and anti-immigrant views made him a pariah in 1980s France.

Over the past 10 years, 86 students have been expelled, and 92 professors have been dismissed from Russian universities for political reasons...

Donald Trump’s son to make ‘private’ visit with no government meetings scheduled, island’s foreign secretary says.

Jordan Maclachlan, 26, died on Friday while serving on the frontline in Ukraine, his family says.

Liverpool Royal Hospital has declared a critical incident amid high flu levels to "support the safe care and treatment of patients" as it works with support organisations.