All news for 2025-02-05

The former world No 1 Simona Halep has announced her retirement after enduring a resounding defeat in her first match of 2025.

Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city.

Gang swindled victims out of €150,000 by posting fraudulent adverts for pets on secondhand shopping sites.

The death of a woman who reportedly fell on to seawall rocks on a beach in Suffolk is being treated as "unexplained" but "not suspicious".

The UK government has denied claims made by the prime minister of Mauritius that it faces paying billions more under a renegotiated deal over the future of the Chagos Islands.

A teenager has been charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy at a school in Sheffield.

Billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan has died at the age of 88, his charity the Aga Khan Development Network has announced.

Belgian police are looking for armed men after a shooting was reported outside a metro station in the centre of Brussels.

Trump hopes to secure rare earth resources from Ukraine as part of a deal for US aid.

Victims still being identified after what Sweden’s PM says was the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

A dad found his two sons lying dead in their bunk beds after they were murdered by their mum, a court heard.

A double stabbing has left a man and teenager with serious injuries.

President Donald Trump has given his team strict instructions to completely obliterate Iran if they ever assassinate him.

Triple killer Valdo Calocane was not forced to have long-lasting antipsychotic medication because he did not like needles, a damning report has revealed.

The elderly patient was found in a ditch by a member of the public after walking six miles in the rain after going missing from a hospital in County Mayo, Ireland.

President Donald Trump said that Palestinians would ‘love’ to leave Gaza and suggested resettling them ‘permanently’.

Police in New Albany, Ohio, are responding to an active shooter situation at KDC/One which has seen multiple people injured and rushed to hospital, according to alarming reports.