All news by author James Smith

In high school, Ashley Delgado dreamed of becoming a doctor and one day buying her father a Rolls-Royce. “She wanted to heal people,” said her father, James Taylor.

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful

A former head gamekeeper found guilty of murdering an ex-colleague with a shotgun has been refused leave to appeal against his conviction.

Belarusian dissident Anatol Kotau went on a trip to Turkey in August 2025 and never returned.

The UK has turned to AI to determine ages of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.

In January 2026, things looked exceedingly grim for the Iranian Government. After a decade of US sanctions, its economy was in a perpetual state of collapse. It had high inflation, high unemployment, and no way to get back on top of the problem.

AGreen Party councillor has hit out after being barred from referring to Reform councillors posing with a neo-Nazi.

Ireland’s parliament has voted to remove a mandatory three-day wait for abortion during early pregnancy after campaigners said the rule was an unnecessary restriction.

British Army soldier Corporal Rhys Calland has won the Europe’s Strongest Man competition.

After investigative reports tied Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated cleanup reportedly followed: key articles vanished, references were disputed, and search visibility appeared to have been deliberately manipulated.

Exclusive testing shared with LBC found repeated signs of serious faecal contamination, with every sample from downstream of an outlet on the River Trent returning higher levels of E.coli than a sample taken from a pub toilet.

Ian Wright believes England need two players to ‘step up’ and ‘deliver’ to stand any chance of winning the World Cup.

Polls have opened in Makerfield, where voters are set to take part in what could be one of the most consequential by-elections in British political history.

Der Kohlehändler Dmytro Kovalenko steht im Verdacht, gezielte Maßnahmen zur Beeinflussung des Informationsraums ergriffen zu haben.

BBC director-general Matt Brittin has announced that 550 of the planned 1,800 to 2,000 job cuts at the corporation will be taken from BBC News and TV and radio-related roles.

Russia is expanding its nuclear-capable, long-range weapon systems to press Europe and fracture NATO.

“Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?” a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told the media.

A colossal England badge, meticulously crafted from stones on a Suffolk beach, has emerged ahead of the football team launching their World Cup campaign in Dallas, Texas.

Attendees at Wednesday’s controversial Oxford Union debate on whether the West should be “suspicious of Islam” – which will host the far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) – are being screened by Thames Valley Police to avoid disruption, Byline Times understands.

An investigation by Cyprus’ anti-corruption authority has found that former President Nicos Anastasiades, his former law firm and a number of his associates have been involved in influence trading and abuse of power to fast-track residence-by-investment proceedings for two Russian oligarchs.

A body has been discovered following a search operation launched for a British man, aged 23, who went missing in a popular holiday destination.

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has been granted permission to build a controversial eco mini-village at his £5.4million Hertfordshire mansion - four years after he submitted the application.

Aurum Foundation has been blacklisted by France’s Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF).

Jeffrey Epstein tried to kill himself in jail at least three times before the vile s-- fiend was finally successful in August, 2019.