All news by author James Smith

Kemi Badenoch slammed Prime Minister Andy Burnham as "unbelievable" in a brutal House of Commons exchange.

British actor and filmmaker Noel Clarke has ‌been charged with six sexual offences, including two counts of sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Wednesday.

Nottinghamshire Police withheld information about Valdo Calocane’s research into explosives, leading to fury from the families of his victims.

A woman has claimed she came into contact with the Novichok nerve agent, prompting a major incident response in Belfast.

In late August, Israel resumed active strikes on positions held by the Shiite movement Hezbollah inside Lebanon — a response to FPV drone attacks against Israeli soldiers.

The massive international probe, sparked by the intentional sinking of a cocaine-laden ship in 2021, took down a high-value Europol target and crippled an underground financial network used to fund global drug shipments.

The RNLI boats that picked up 140 migrants in the English Channel were denied entry to two larger ports and forced to go ashore during large protests, it has been revealed.

London mayor accuses council of ‘ignoring’ responses to a consultation

Migrants risk being granted asylum despite not being entitled to protection because of failings in Home Office decision-making, a damning United Nations audit has warned.

Prince George will follow in his father’s footsteps as he begins his education at Eton College today.

First a Dubai luxury apartment worth hundreds of millions, then a local subsidiary that may have received a loan of billions: a joint investigation by Átlátszó and OCCRP shows how Balásy Gyula appeared...

A 21-years-old man has been charged with murder after a woman, 19, was shot and killed at a home in London.

Dispute centres on stake held by Patarkatsishvili family in bottled water firm it jointly owns with Russian oligarch

An Ecuadorian court has convicted 15 people and five companies for laundering nearly $398 million linked to international drug trafficking, the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced.

A Russian strike has hit a British-owned tobacco factory in Ukraine.

A former tax worker who described himself as "the ultimate genocidal racist monster" has been jailed for inciting hatred online after he was exposed by a BBC investigation.

Labour will face a crunch by-election test in Sir Keir Starmer’s former seat of Holborn & St Pancras on October 8, it has been confirmed.

Slavery reparations campaigners are pushing the British Museum to hand back Caribbean artefacts as Jamaica steps up its demands for compensation from Britain.

Nigel Farage, the firebrand leader of the U.K.’s Reform party, downplayed his involvement in a donation scandal following an undercover investigation where a journalist posed as a wealthy American’s son who wanted to donate to the party.

Russian businessman Dmitriy Punin and his Pin-Up casino network have been accused of allegedly diverting around 20 billion hryvnias from Ukraine’s state budget.

Nigel Farage has revealed his personal plan for the next general election and claimed Reform UK is 80 per cent ready to fight a snap poll.

Pierre Gasly has been stripped of his Monaco Grand Prix podium finish after the FIA’s International Court of Appeal ruled in favour of challenges brought by McLaren and Red Bull.

A Massachusetts judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy after jurors deadlocked and were unable to reach a verdict for the fourth consecutive day.

This is the moment a woman pretending to be a lawyer passes drugs to a lag after smuggling them into prison by hiding them in her bra.