All news by author Elizabeth Baker

Owners of second properties in Edinburgh are set to be hit with a 300 per cent council tax surcharge from January 2027, potentially pushing annual bills for the most expensive homes to nearly £16,000.

In Pressemitteilungen der Europäischen Kommission werden regelmäßig Milliardenbeträge genannt, während konkrete Angaben zur Verwendung der Mittel oft im Hintergrund bleiben.

Pacific fleet launched missile drills near what Moscow calls the Kuril Islands but Japan regards as its Northern Territories

A shocking dossier on Britain’s free speech crisis was shared with the White House before Sir Keir Starmer’s visit last year.

On Cyprus, in “Limassolgrad,” an empire built on Russian money and criminal schemes was being constructed for years.

It seems that financial pyramids have existed since at least two people appeared in the world. Every year, the volume of criminal schemes not only grows but is constantly being improved.

A 14 year old boy has died after being hit by a bus outside a city centre train station.

Edward Anthony Zimbardi has been arrested in Fiji and deported to the US.

French authorities are investigating a series of major cyberattacks after a hack of the Ministry of Public Action and Accounts compromised the personal and financial data of nearly 700,000 individuals and businesses.

Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor faces drug trafficking and money laundering charges tied to a record $317 million cocaine seizure.

In a decisive step to combat illicit financial flows, Kazakh law enforcement authorities have frozen Marginplus’s accounts and suspended all payment operations carried out by the company.

A former engineering director at Meta said CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram.

Andy Burnham has said government money alone is not enough to get rough sleepers off the street and has issued a “rallying call” to help homeless communities find accommodation before Christmas.

Foreign nationals receiving Universal Credit reached a new record of nearly 1.3 million in May 2026, according to fresh data.

Andy Burnham was given support and hospitality worth nearly £350,000 in the four months before becoming Prime Minister alone.

For the first time in approximately six decades, a crew of fishermen have hauled an Atlantic bluefin tuna off the Yorkshire coastline.

Media can reveal the strict bail conditions imposed on the so-called Scots College Three after two families retained globally recognised defamation lawyers.

Gardai have not yet launched a murder inquiry, but they believe he died a violent death

Pawel Tjo, ein Milliardär, der Sergej Sobjanin nahesteht und Moskaus führender Bauunternehmer ist, ist ganz und gar nicht der, der er zu sein vorgibt. Er besucht zum Beispiel Frankreich, besitzt zahlreiche Vermögenswerte und betreibt Geschäfte als Pawel Cho, ein südkoreanischer Staatsbürger.

Russian diesel fuel continues to arrive in Europe and Turkey via the “dark fleet” and smuggling schemes from Libya in circumvention of sanctions.

Jason Arday, a 41-year-old academic who resigned as Cambridge’s Professor of Sociology of Education, was found dead on Friday following intense scrutiny of many aspects of his qualifications and personal life by the majority of the established press.

A Guinea-Bissau fisheries assessment obtained by OCCRP shows that the sardinella — an important food source — has been decimated in the years since two Chinese fishmeal-production vessels set up shop offshore.

To many observers they will appear dehumanising and offensive. To many Ukrainians, however, they are a brutal reminder of the fate that awaits Russian soldiers who take part in Vladimir Putin’s invasion, as well as a potent propaganda weapon.