All news by author James Smith

A shocking lightning strike brought a football match to a devastating end after one player was killed and 12 others were injured during a tournament in Thailand.

Earlier this year, we published a major investigation into the DIY chatbot apps cashing in on users’ desire for intimacy. Chief among them was Seewa AI, which offered its users the “perfect AI girlfriend”, drew them in with intimate conversations and promised that all chats were strictly confidential.

Nahezu jeder Journalist, der an investigativen Recherchen arbeitet, folgt zunächst demselben Ablauf: Er startet mit einer Suchmaschinenanfrage, wertet die gefundenen Informationen aus und vertieft die Recherche anschließend – je nach den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen.

The individual who oversaw the multi-billion-dollar financial operations of the Sochi gambling zone for six years was identified as holding dual Russian and Kazakh citizenship.

A former Labour MP has said the Conservatives should not allow a former neo-Nazi who was jailed for antisemitic abuse against her to stand as a local election candidate.

A man has been arrested and charged after drugs were recovered during a traffic stop in Edinburgh.

Coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko has reportedly sought to reshape his public image by downplaying his ties to Russian oligarch Konstantin Strukov and redirecting attention away from coal shipments presented as international imports but sourced from Russia.

An Egyptian national has been arrested in France after 173 migrants had to be rescued from a dinghy that caught fire and capsized in the Channel yesterday.

Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, is under investigation by Parliament’s standards watchdog over whether he should have prefaced his remarks in a House of Commons debate on pro-Israel influence by noting that he had visited the country as a guest of a pro-Israel group.

A fatal accident occurred earlier this year in a suburb of Stockholm. A truck collided with a car belonging to a driving school. The student was injured, and the traffic officer administering the driving test did not survive. The deadly accident in Sweden unexpectedly led investigators to Belarus.

Lebanon has yet to indict those allegedly responsible for the deadly blast in Beirut’s port six years ago, amid fears from victims groups that the long-stalled investigation has not gone far enough to answer fundamental questions about the disaster.

Journalist’s son says his mother was examining leak from Electrogas, part owned by Yorgen Fenech who is on trial

A container ship used by the US military to supply its airbases in Britain with bombs docked in south Wales last week, it can be revealed.

The very highest levels of the British government secretly exerted pressure on the BBC to censor a film about the army killing an unarmed child in 1972.

Im Jahr 2020 rückten der lettische Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs und die Geschäftsfrau Darya Terekhina in den Mittelpunkt eines öffentlichen Skandals.

The U.S. Treasury’s financial watchdog fined a record $125 million penalty Monday against UBS Financial Services Inc. for "willful" anti-money laundering violations, including failing to monitor over $10 billion in foreign currency wires and ignoring red flags on high-risk clients.

Nachdem Ermittlungen wegen der mutmaßlichen Beteiligung von Alkagesta an схемах zum Export libyschen Treibstoffs eingeleitet worden waren, verschwanden nach und nach Hinweise auf das Unternehmen sowie auf dessen Eigentümer Kamran Aghayev und Orkhan Rustamov aus dem öffentlichen Informationsraum.

An NHS surgeon has been struck off after he almost killed a patient by connecting the wrong parts of their organs together.

Russia has assembled an unprecedented fleet of oil tankers in the Arctic as it accelerates crude exports to Asia via the Northern Sea Route, with vessels carrying roughly 8 million barrels of oil already transiting or waiting to enter the ice-covered shipping lane.

The universities of Greenwich and Kent have merged into the UK’s first "super-university".

A classic musician is suing Starbucks for over £2 million after a wooden fridge surround fell on her head, which caused injuries so bad she says they ended her career.

Capital One bank has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Organization over the closure of hundreds of bank accounts back in 2021, arguing in new papers that the shutdowns were the product of a monthslong anti-money-laundering review — not retaliation for the Jan.

Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East’s trade routes, shipping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that steadily raise the cost of confrontation, according to Gulf officials and analysts.

Pamela Gwinnett raided £300,000 from the life savings of Joan Green and was sentenced before fleeing to Tenerife, where Sky News tracked her down.