All news for 2025-02-23

The French gangster known as ’the Fly’ has been arrested in Romania following his deadly prison escape nine months ago, according to police.

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, have been arrested by the Taliban after residing in Afghanistan for 18 years and operating educational programs attended by women.

Eliya Cohen spent over 500 days in captivity, fearing that Ziv Abud had died in the Hamas attacks in 2023.

A far-right party could hold the balance of power in Germany after sweeping to second place in a historic election.

A busy shopping street in London has descended into chaos after a clothing giveaway went wrong.

A teenage boy was stabbed in front of shoppers at a Primark store in Nottingham today.

Police hunting for a missing 23-year-old woman have found a body.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets on Sunday for the funeral of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Pope Francis has sent a message to 1.2 billion Catholics across the world after the Vatican confirmed he was in a critical condition.

Donald Trump has never been one for subtlety, but his latest claim beats them all.

Schoolfriends, family members and neighbours are among the dozens of men arrested for the rape of a teenager in India.

Meghan Markle is banned from selling clothes under her new As Ever lifestyle brand, court documents reveal.

Elon Musk has given an ultimatum to hundreds of thousands of US federal workers, allowing them 48 hours to explain what they achieved last week or face the risk of losing their jobs.

The UK will introduce new sanctions to "tighten the pressure" on Russia as it commemorates three years since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Callum Smith seemed to be on the verge of retirement, but he amazed Joshua Buatsi with an outstanding performance to earn a world title shot.

While speaking at the Republican CPAC conference, Donald Trump said he wants the US to get ’rare Earth and oil’ from Ukraine after Joe Biden gave the country $350 billion.

Donald Trump, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), criticized President Joe Biden, labeling him ’a disaster’ before addressing birthright citizenship.

The body was discovered between junction 20 at the Almondsbury Interchange with the M5 and junction 21, near Awkley, in South Gloucestershire - the M4 and M48 were initially closed but have now reopened.