All news by author Emma Davis

04 Jan 2025 838

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.

World

03 Jan 2025 661

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.

News

03 Jan 2025 880

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.

News

03 Jan 2025 843

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.

News

03 Jan 2025 694

’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.

Investigation

03 Jan 2025 756

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...

Crime

03 Jan 2025 791

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.

Tech

03 Jan 2025 673

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.

02 Jan 2025 754

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.

World

02 Jan 2025 796

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.

02 Jan 2025 794

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.

02 Jan 2025 712

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.

World

02 Jan 2025 860

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.

Crime

01 Jan 2025 809

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.

News

01 Jan 2025 881

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.

World

01 Jan 2025 568

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.

News

01 Jan 2025 885

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.

News

01 Jan 2025 827

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.

World

31 Dec 2024 630

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’

World

31 Dec 2024 928

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.

World

30 Dec 2024 814

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...

Sport

30 Dec 2024 827

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.

Crime

30 Dec 2024 583

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.

World

30 Dec 2024 894

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.

Politics