All news by author Emma Davis

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Trump accused of attacking UK energy policies on behalf of fossil fuel industry
Campaigners say US president-elect’s call to ‘get rid of windmills’ is based on North Sea interests of oil and gas firms.
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Trump to be sentenced just days before his inauguration in hush money case
President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced in his hush money case just days before he returns to the White House.
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Ukrainian mother claims brutal assault by 15 Putin torturers, who then targeted her 5-year-old daughter
After telling her harrowing story in court, the Ukrainian mother was sentenced to 18 years in a Russian prison.
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George Michael’s estate earns £292,000 weekly from Netflix series and Wham
The estate of the late George Michael - who died in December 2016 - raked in an astonishing £292,424-a-week in the past two years, accounts show.
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Company led by former UK ethics envoy earns £13m from non-profit visa services
Cloud Bai-Yun was asked to resign from Ecctis, which runs language and qualifications tests for UK visa applicants.
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’Snooty’ town declared the most desirable place to live in the UK in 2025
Just 33 miles north of central London, you’ll find Harpenden – the ‘snooty’ but ‘beautiful’ place ranked the most desirable to live in 2025.
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Half a million shares in the port of Buenaventura in the hands of a drug trafficker and his family
The indictment of nine members of a prominent Colombian Pacific family — including politicians, former public officials, journalists...
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Sara Sharif’s killer dad had throat slit with tuna can in prison attack
Sara Sharif’s killer dad has ‘had his neck slashed with a tuna can lid in prison’ just two weeks after he was sentenced for his daughter’s murder.
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Apple faces £1.5bn lawsuit for overcharging British users - how much money you could get back
A seven-week trial is set to begin later this month at the Competition Appeal Tribunal over a £1.5billion lawsuit claiming British iPhone users were overcharged.
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Elon Musk rents $2,000-a-night Mar-a-Lago cottage to spend time with Donald Trump
’First Buddy’ Elon Musk has hunkered down at Donald Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago club as the president elect forms the agenda for his second term.
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Brussels descends into chaos on New Year’s Eve
Revelers set scores of cars alight and pelted emergency services with Molotov cocktails in Brussels late Tuesday as the city faced a wave of disorder on New Year’s Eve.
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1,500 drug-dependent infants born in Scotland since 2017
Lib Dems warn first minister that party could withdraw support if government does not boost funding for issue.
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Stormzy receives 9-month driving ban following illegal incident in luxury car
Stormzy has been banned from driving for nine months at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court after using a phone behind the wheel of a Rolls Royce.
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Mass shooting occurred outside a nightclub in Queens, New York, on New Year’s Day
A nightclub shooting in Queens, New York, has left at least 10 people injured, according to police.
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OneCoin money launderer William Morro sentenced to one year probation and $2,000 fine
OneCoin money launderer William Morro has been sentenced to one year probation.
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Floods lead to major incident being declared in Manchester
Police say they are supporting clean-up operations which taking place following floods across Greater Manchester in Bolton, Didsbury, Harpurhey, Stalybridge, Stockport and Wigan - along with the Environment Agency, National Highways and the fire service.
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Former Estonian president Arnold Rüütel dies at 96
He was the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after the restoration of independence.
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New Year’s Eve celebrations in Birmingham ruined by fake fireworks news
Thousands of revellers in Birmingham were disappointed at the stroke of midnight when a New Year firework display turned out to be fake news.
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Two men injured, one seriously, as car ’swerves towards crowds’ during New Year fireworks on Primrose Hill
Police have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous driving, causing grievous bodily harm and possession of controlled drugs, after a car swerved towards crowds of people watching the New Year fireworks in London.
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The Netherlands plans to open an archive of individuals accused of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II
Some descendants are apprehensive but a historian says making 30m pages of records public is ‘important step’
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Five years on, WHO calls for China to share critical data on Covid-19 origins
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged China to share Covid data and allow access so scientists can understand its origins five years on from the outbreak of the deadly virus.
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Russian billionaires run chemical factories that supply critical materials for explosives, aiding Russia’s war efforts
Chemicals factories founded or owned by some of Russia’s wealthiest men are supplying ingredients to plants that manufacture explosives used by Moscow’s military...
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David Beckham has received £28 million in dividends from his personal brand empire
Former footballer’s commercial tie-ups with Stella Artois and Boss offset losses at TV production studio.
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The total losses from the LastPass-linked crypto theft have now exceeded $250 million following the latest incident, which saw $5.4 million stolen
Crypto holders urged to act as attackers leverage 2-years old LastPass breach to drain millions despite strong encryption claims.
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Is Yehor Alshevski involved in a Ponzi scam?
The New Ostap Bender of his time, Yehor Valerevich Alshevski (previously Evdakov) (Alshevsky), achieved success through the IRS and Kairos Technologies projects.