All news for 2025-02-07

A 16-year-old girl has been drugged, beaten and raped for a month in a warehouse in Haiti, amid a massive 1,000% surge of sexual violence against children as the crime-ridden island is taken over by gangs.

President Donald Trump has sparked widespread celebration among fast food customers as he announced the return of plastic drinking straws.

Kanye West declared he is a Nazi as he launched into a vile anti-Semitic, sexist and homophobic rant on Thursday night after baffling fans by begging President Trump to free Diddy from prison.

Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle.

More than six million people could die from HIV and AIDS in the next four years if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pulls its global funding for programmes, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Friday.

A Russian subsidiary of the French company Atos, which has ties to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), played a role in creating the EU’s largest biometric database for tracking people crossing the bloc’s borders, the Financial Times (FT) reported earlier today.

The Kremlin-linked bot network known as “Matryoshka” has achieved its biggest success to date: a fake video claiming that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...

Nigerian authorities charge 53 individuals—40 of them Chinese nationals—in a crackdown on a multinational cybercrime ring linked to Ponzi schemes, crypto fraud, and cyber-terrorism.

Mehmet Aydın, the founder of a Turkish online Ponzi scheme who had been accused of embezzling money from thousands of people, was on Monday sentenced to 45,376 years and six months in prison.

Singer Darius Campbell Danesh left a six-figure fortune after his tragic death, it has emerged.

Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance.

Analysts warn streaming service needs to tread carefully as its standard subscription rate goes up by 18%.

Residents living near the Sarandí have long complained about pollution in the area.

‘We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden,’ says the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson.

A retired police officer has been cleared by a jury for knocking two people off an electric motorbike in order to "protect life".

A former employee of ASML and NXP, who has been in custody for several months on suspicion of stealing corporate secrets, maintained contact with Russian intelligence.

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the agency’s worldwide total of more than 10,000, four sources told Reuters on Thursday.

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to build new alliances.

Alex Bruno Silva dos Santos, 28, and Maria Leticia Sousa da Silva, 26, were kidnapped from their home in Brazil by four men dressed as police and later found murdered.

During Meghan Markle’s time as a working royal, she crossed paths with dozens of servants and staff, but not everyone warmed to the modern-day duchess, a new book claims.

Freddie Farrow died of a traumatic brain injury when a "very large mirror" fell on him at a Fenwick department store in Colchester, Essex.

A second woman, suspected of using wigs to disguise herself to sit the British citizenship test for other people, has been arrested.