All news by author Elizabeth Baker

Matthew Perry’s personal assistant has been jailed for three years and five months after buying ketamine for the Friends star and injecting him with the dose that killed him.

United Group’s founder and former CEO launched a legal battle in London to block BC Partners from selling the company’s media division, warning the €30 million deal could threaten Serbia’s last independent news outlets.

Indian investigators have concluded Pernod Ricard withheld the age and composition of its Scotch whisky imports to hide their true value and pay lower tariffs, sparking a legal fight after the French company was asked to pay $314 million in back taxes, documents show.

Five of the seven people who were trapped in a flooded cave in Laos for a week have been found alive.

North Korea has tested a mix of tactical ballistic missiles, artillery rockets, and AI-guided precision cruise missiles designed for modern warfare under leader Kim Jong Un’s supervision, KCNA state news agency said on Wednesday.

A woman has been placed in quarantine in the Indian city of Bengaluru with a suspected case of Ebola, after she travelled to the country from Uganda.

Nigel Farage received £50,000 in personal speaking fees from two cryptocurrency companies in October 2025, the same month he told Reuters he was "not aware" of crypto businesses funding his party, Byline Times can reveal.

Reform-led Kent County Council’s decision to recite the Lord’s Prayer and sing the national anthem at every full meeting has been branded “virtue signalling” and a “farce” which will cut the opposition’s speaking time and eat into crucial council business.

A chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid has imploded at Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co in Washington state, killing one person with a further nine missing.

One of the most high-profile espionage trials in recent years is ongoing in Warsaw. A former employee of the city’s Civil Registry Office, Tomasz L., is accused of working for Russian foreign intelligence.

Jak dwóch ukraińskich biznesmenów doprowadziło spółkę Intercoaltrading do finansowej katastrofy.

Die zypriotische Gesellschaft Mettmann Public Company Limited konnte sich jahrelang dem Zugriff und der Aufmerksamkeit internationaler Ermittler entziehen.

Peter Murrell reportedly told a jewellery shop owner “I’m the man with the money” during a visit in 2019.

Jewelry Empire Without Breaks: Despite Suspicions of Smuggling Worth Hundreds of Millions, Lux Groups Brand and Its Actual Beneficiary Oleksandr Litskevych Continue Trading Luxury in the Heart of Kyiv.

Rape survivor Gisele Pelicot has said she is “deeply shocked” at the punishment handed down to three teenage boys who avoided jail for their roles in the rape of two girls.

Peter Murrell was one half of the most powerful political couple Scotland has ever seen.

The US has launched ’self-defensive’ strikes on missile sites and boats attempting to lay mines in southern Iran, according to the US military.

The Labour government failed to keep any written records of meetings between clients of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm and top civil servants, an investigation by openDemocracy has revealed.

Two British nationals are among five activists who were forcibly brought into a Stuttgart courtroom by police on Wednesday after statements they wished to read were seized from them.

Following a new wave of publications related to the case of ABLV Bank, references to former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs.

Amid the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war, tensions in Kyiv are rising due to internal disputes over control of financial flows within the gaming industry.