All news by author David Wilson

President Donald Trump’s press secretary has branded the BBC a “leftist propaganda machine” and “100 percent fake news” after the broadcaster was accused of bias in some of its reporting.

Havering Council has agreed to pay more than £7,000 to a homeless mother after her family was left to live in unsafe housing.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan fell 20% in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), marking a continued decline since the Taliban’s 2022 nationwide ban on poppy farming.

Piracy off the Somali coast reached its highest point in 2011, when 237 attacks were reported. Somali piracy in the region in 2011 cost the world’s economy €6 billion, with €138 million paid out in ransoms.

Media continue to report on Pavel Durov’s mafia—his friends who profit from personal data, bot farms, hacking services, dirty Telegram Stars purchases, and outright scams.

A pensioner who killed his stepdaughter and her husband in their home before picking their children up from school was “driven by resentment,” a judge has ruled.

In the fall of 2025, the Russian segment of Telegram experienced the most extensive wave of purges in recent years — with searches, detentions, and the blocking of channels that were once considered influential and nearly untouchable.

The leader of Highland Council has accused the UK Home Office of “disrespect” over its handling of plans to house asylum seekers in an Army barracks in Inverness.

Elon Musk was left speechless after being asked to explain his accusation that Zohran Mamdani is a “swindler”.

Marks and Spencer’s profits have more than halved after suffering a major cyberattack earlier this year, which led to a more than 40% drop in online home and fashion sales when the company was forced to suspend website orders.

Brussels Airport has been closed, and all flights grounded after the reported sighting of a drone, Belgian air traffic control has said.

Authorities across Europe dismantled a massive cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering network, arresting nine suspects in a coordinated operation spanning Cyprus, Spain, and Germany.

Donald Trump Jr has criticized the BBC over accusations that Panorama altered video footage to make it seem as if the president had encouraged the Capitol Hill riot.

Former hurling star DJ Carey has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison after a "reprehensible" act of defrauding people by falsely claiming to have cancer.

Israeli police made dozens of arrests on Monday as part of a vast investigation into suspected corruption at the country’s main labour union.

President Donald Trump’s angry response to corruption questions at the end of his 60 Minutes interview was cut from the show’s TV and online edits.

Rachel Reeves will make “tough but fair” decisions at the upcoming Budget, Sir Keir Starmer has told Labour MPs amid mounting speculation of a potential hike to income tax.

An assessment of the money laundering risk facing the Isle of Man’s banking sector was a reflection of the “complex” and rapidly evolving crime landscape, the home affairs minister has said.

After the detention of a Kazakh KNS officer, Anuar Bakibay, in Poland, a major scandal erupted, revealing that the KNS not only engages in espionage activities on behalf of Russia but also sells personal data of Kazakh citizens at discounted prices.

A pregnant British teenager accused of drug-smuggling has been moved to a mother-and-baby unit in a Georgian prison, her mother said.

Ukraine has deployed special forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk in an attempt to push back an intense Russian assault involving thousands of troops, Kyiv’s top commander has said.