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Italian prosecutors will investigate the Bayesian’s captain after the superyacht sank in Sicily last week killing seven people.

Russian-born billionaire said to have ‘miscalculated’ by visiting France during inquiry into crime on his platform

Paris-Orly airport is being evacuated, reports say

ICIJ previously found that OneCoin’s founder Ruja Ignatova and some of her associates had bought properties worth millions in Dubai while promoting the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.

Final practice at Zandvoort was stopped for a lengthy delay after a big Logan Sargeant crash which forced him to flee his Williams which had caught fire after the impact

Paraguayan police killed a parliamentarian in a violent region of the country during a shootout that erupted in an overnight raid on his house where officers and prosecutors had arrived to search for evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.

Security services reportedly ready to storm jail in Volgograd region after hostage-takers claim Islamic State affiliation

Weather warnings were in place as the storm hit and brought winds of up to 80mph to parts of England and Wales.

Force ends investigation into bets on 4 July election date and says bar to prove misconduct in public office has not been met

The new variant of the mpox virus is spreading rapidly worldwide, prompting Asian nations to strengthen border controls, while the UK and EU borders remain lax.

Sir Paul Nurse puts forward for role never held by a woman.

US fast-food firm to open more than 200 restaurants as part of £1bn plan that will focus on high street locations

A 40-year-old Zambian national, who was apprehended on Sunday after landing at South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport, has been identified as a key player in a transnational organized crime syndicate involved in kidnapping, ransom, and crystal meth distribution in the country.

Nigerian authorities arrested a man attempting to smuggle 88 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.7 kilograms, in his stomach from Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to Vietnam.

UK government to boost staff, crack down on employers, in bid to fight people smuggling.

The family of Sadik Duraku, a British citizen detained in Serbia on war crimes charges, is calling on the UK government for more support.

Mike Lynch, a top lawyer who was part of his fraud trial and a key defence witness are just three of the six still missing after the tech tycoon’s yacht sunk in a tornado off Sicily.

Irmgard Furchner, 99, was found guilty in 2022 of being an accessory to killings at Stutthof concentration camp

Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, often referred to as the British Bill Gates, is reportedly missing after his Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm on Monday.

The TV personality launched his namesake show in 1967 and covered wide-ranging issues for over 6,000 episodes

Professor Chris Whitty, the UK’s chief medical officer, joined government ministers in assessing the UK’s readiness for any potential outbreak of a new variant of mpox.