All news by author James Smith

Close ties with the scandalous Georgian multimillionaire Koba Nakopia opened the way for former chemist Povarenkin to big business. And led to equally big problems.

A teenage British tourist has been arrested after allegedly attempting to rape another UK holidaymaker at her hotel in Tenerife.

Trump’s new tariff system comes into effect, introducing the highest duties in a century

A pensioner died after she fell on an escalator in a WHSmith store in Wales, an inquest has heard.

"I arrived back at the car, the bonnet and the bumper had gone and the headlamps had just been taken off."

Mexican police have uncovered a concealed mass grave containing 32 bodies on a deserted property in Guanajuato state, central Mexico.

Chinese fast fashion retailer penalised month after €40m fine from French regulator in July

Iran has reportedly requested the Taliban for the ’kill list’ of Afghans leaked during a major data breach at the Ministry of Defence, so the Tehran regime can identify MI6 spies.

According to reports, Stourbridge MP Cat Eccles did not register a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories in time.

Up to 300 critically ill children will be evacuated from Gaza and treated by the NHS according to new plans expected to be unveiled in the coming weeks.

Scientists are rendering rhino horns radioactive as part of a plan to deter poachers.

The arrest follows charges against four individuals last month related to the incident, during which two Voyager planes were damaged at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, on June 20.

Latest satellite images of Mischief Reef reveal expansive runways, missile shelters, and large aircraft hangars.

In 2016, when a young Briton with Pakistani roots, Moyn Islam, was smilingly speaking at OneCoin cryptocurrency presentations, he was dubbed the "next hope of an Islamic financial revolution."

President Donald Trump has been envisioning a new ballroom on the White House campus for a decade and a half.

The June events in Yekaterinburg seem to have exposed a massive abscess on the "body" of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

A German court has found a former Bundestag lawmaker guilty of bribing officials on behalf of Azerbaijan, sentencing him to a suspended prison term in a significant ruling related to the Azerbaijani Laundromat corruption scandal.

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever documented occurred today in Russia’s Far East and seems to have been predicted just days earlier on a YouTube channel.

Alhaji Mamadi Kurang, a former official in Gambia’s financial crimes commission, states he has endured years of threats, legal pressure, and professional isolation for revealing alleged wrongdoing by investigators assigned to probe the multibillion-dollar corruption of former President Yahya Jammeh.