All news for 2025-01-13

Sir Keir Starmer is defying calls to sack his embattled anti-corruption minister despite mounting pressure.

Spain is set to impose a significant new tax on foreigners, including Brits, buying homes in the country as it moves to prioritise housing availability for locals.

Phone video shared by mining NGO appears to show dozens of wrapped bodies in underground tunnel.

A dating app popular with the LGBTQ+ community has been linked to dozens of sex abuse cases including children under the age of 13.

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit aimed at disrupting cybercriminal operations that abuse generative AI technologies, according to a Jan. 10 announcement.

Belarusian businessmen Aleksandr Zingman and Oleg Vodchits, involved in international scandals related to arms trade and equipment supplies...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has supported and continues to support Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria.

A descendant of one of Jack the Ripper’s victims has demanded a new inquest into one of history’s most notorious serial killers...

Tributes have been paid to five people who died in a helicopter crash outside Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, as an inquest into their deaths got under way more than six years later.

First datacentre site proposed seven miles from Abingdon reservoir planned for water-stressed south-east England.

The pound has dropped to its lowest value against the dollar since November 2023 while government borrowing costs have continued to rise.

The King is to visit Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Significant progress has been made on a peace deal between Israel and Hamas which would include the release of all October 7 hostages.

The Vivienne was reportedly due to move into a £400,000 home in the weeks before their death aged just 32. But at the time they were living alone in a former stately home worth an eye-watering amount.

Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket early Monday because of technical trouble.

There has been an update on the Royal Navy’s effort to explore nuclear-powered surface ships, building on its earlier Request for Information (RFI) issued last year.

In a major international operation, UK, French, and German authorities have dismantled an organised crime group (OCG) responsible for smuggling migrants to the UK via dangerous small-boat crossings in the Channel.

A former SAS hero, who killed two attackers and saved countless lives while off duty and intervening in a terror attack, has been hired by Donald Trump as a bodyguard.

A second man has been charged with helping former soldier Daniel Khalife after he escaped from prison.

Environmental activists have spray painted the grave of Charles Darwin inside Westminster Abbey.

It took Ecuador’s police nine months to track down the country’s most wanted fugitive. But when they found him outside an apartment complex in Bogotá, Colombia, the leader of the Choneros gang...

Robby Kinlan, 21, was discovered lying on his hotel bed on the island of Koh Tao in Thailand, the site of dozens of young people’s unexplained deaths over the years

Anthony Joshua is targeting a long-awaited fight with Tyson Fury this year and he attempted to confront his rival

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