All news by author David Wilson

The discount retailer B&M has replaced its finance chief following a £7m accounting mistake that will reduce its annual earnings – marking its second profit warning within two weeks.

Police reported that dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 13 civilians and three police officers.

The French TV channel BMFTV has published the first footage of the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, which took place on Sunday morning.

It has been three months since patient N. died at the Podolsk plastic surgery clinic; the investigation has stalled, and the "Soleil Esthetic" clinic remains in operation.

Half a million dollars remain frozen on the Qmall cryptocurrency exchange. The funds, intended to purchase drones for the Ukrainian military, never reached the front lines.

Mongolian prime minister Gombojav Zandanshatar has resigned after losing a vote of no confidence in parliament, just four months after taking office, according to reports.

The MI5 director has voiced his frustration over the trial involving two alleged Chinese spies after the high-profile case was abandoned last month.

Unused casinos have become a hub for fraudulent activity from Southeast Asian gangs, according to an alarming joint report from the UK and US governments.

Pro-Brexit supporters have branded Chancellor Rachel Reeves a "complete fraud" for linking the UK’s economic problems to its exit from the European Union.

The country’s largest road construction project - costing £1m a day at its peak - has passed its halfway point.

Transport for London (TfL) put a revised offer to the capital’s four Tube unions on Monday in an effort to head off more strikes.

A court heard that a woman denied plotting with her lover to kill her husband.

Human Rights Watch has warned that the European Union continues to export vast quantities of hazardous pesticides banned for use inside the bloc — mainly to countries in the Global South — despite evidence linking the chemicals to cancer, infertility, miscarriages, developmental problems, neurological disorders, and even death.

The investigative group The Sentry said Wednesday that South Sudan’s leaders are siphoning public resources through off-budget arrangements, sole-source contracts, and manipulation of public procurement processes.

When Vladimir Putin first announced he would host a “Russia-Arab world” summit, the Kremlin imagined the region’s leaders flying to Moscow to discuss regional security and energy relations, with the Russian leader presiding.

This report examines the operations of Alkagesta Ltd, a Malta‑registered company accused in various reports of transporting oil products with disputed certificates of origin.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has launched a criminal case against exiled former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia—established by exiled politicians and activists in February 2022—alleging they plotted a violent seizure of power and organized a terrorist group.

The parents of Britain’s largest family have been fined after taking their children out of school for a luxurious £52,000 trip to Disney World in Florida.

France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has suspended Emmanuel Macron’s flagship 2023 pension overhaul until after the 2027 presidential election in the hope of winning over enough Socialist deputies to survive a no-confidence vote.

Three police officers were killed in a farmhouse explosion in Italy as they arrived to evict the occupants.

London Defence R&D has developed an innovative solution to one of the fastest-evolving challenges on modern battlefields — the threat of hostile drones.