All news by author: Simon Murphy

Football superstar Lionel Messi has been criticised for promoting several apps and video games that are part of what Human Rights Watch has described as China's network of censorship and surveillance

TUC also warns of the risk of a disaster similar to the Post Office Horizon scandal if workers do not get a say in how machines are rolled out

The United States used Hercules transport aircraft to drop critical humanitarian aid into Gaza as the population of the besieged Palestinian enclave faces conditions of extreme starvation

One of Ukraine's oldest zoos - Mykolaiv Zoo - shut on the second day of Russia's invasion in February 2022 and days later it was hit - but it's still open and a place 'to rest souls'

Two years on from Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the young girls are desperate for the war to end so that they can have a normal childhood again

One teacher in Ukraine is carrying on the fight for education in the port city of Mykolaiv, while her husband is in the military fighting for their country

Ahead of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, Andryi has shared his experience of running for his life with wife Vlada and young daughter Sasha in Ukraine

Nigerian-born Lebanese entrepreneur Bassim Haidar lives a life of luxury being snapped with A-listers including Tom Cruise and Sylvester Stallone, and has donated thousands to the Tory party

Boxing gym owner Marnie Swindells and Dr Leah Totton - who runs cosmetics clinics - are the only two The Apprentice champions of the last 10 to remain in business with Lord Sugar

Iran has blamed Israel for the deaths of at least five of its military personnel in targeted airstrikes in Damascus, while Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised "complete victory" in Gaza

Seema Misra thought about taking her own life when she was jailed as part of the Post Office scandal and now says Fujitsu, which developed the faulty Horizon system, ought to pay up for its victims

Simon Blagden, the former chairman of the IT company embroiled in the Post Office Horizon scandal, donated to the Tory party and was on the board of one of Prince Andrew's charities

With complaints from locals about rising prices, there are fears the legacy of London 2012 might be lost when the Aquatic Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is set to be run by a private firm

King Charles and his family have been slammed by a climate charity for using “incredibly wasteful” private jets, including a jaunt to watch rugby in Scotland which could have been made by train

According to Hamas-run health ministry figures, Gaza’s death toll has exceeded 17,000 since the war was sparked by the militant group’s October 7 strikes against Israel

The hotel chain which owns Pontins banked several million pounds in profit from emergency Covid provisions, but their fortune stands in stark contrast to the staff laid off from closed camps

Chair of Yorkshire Water Vanda Murray is paid more than £200,000 a year and owns a mansion with four toilets and a steam room, and still warns that customers may face 'shortages'

Workers struggling to make ends meet at Oxfam are striking for the first time in its history, yet the charity still found the cash to pay one employee at least £340,000

The local Conservative party of Lee Rowley, who became housing minister for the second time after Rishi Sunak's reshuffle, was handed £2,500 from businesswoman Lubov Chernukhin

The former Prime Minister, who once pushed a Tory green agenda, was hired to boost investment in the Chinese-funded project which involved 'ocean grabbing and sand mining'

We can reveal the National Crime Agency – which arrested Hewa Rahimpur before he was extradited to Belgium – is probing two Albanian men in connection to the ringleader’s network

A human rights group worker gives a vivid account of the crisis in the southern city of Khan Yunis as Israel steps up its military operation against Hamas

We have found listings for merchandise including posters, tote bags and phone cases carrying the message 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'

Firms owned by Amanda Staveley have made donations to the Conservative Party, with the latest coming after it was reported Boris Johnson backed the Saudi bid

Two other workers were badly injured weeks before engineer Michael Jones suffered fatal head injuries while working at the Premier League club’s new £500million stadium site