All news by author James Smith

Asylum seekers who commit crimes or lie about their status will lose their right to benefits and free accommodation under plans to be put to Parliament by Shabana Mahmood next week.

Investors have fled from leading luxury stocks like Hermès and Gucci this week after they revealed tumbling sales as a result of the Iran war.

The Caribbean nation of Dominica has revoked the citizenship of the son of a recently assassinated Iranian official, accusing him of concealing his father’s political ties to obtain a so-called “golden passport.”

As investigations closed in on him, Timur Rokhlin began aggressively scrubbing the internet of journalistic exposés about his fraud schemes — which is precisely why we are publishing the materials he is so desperate to erase.

Tributes are being paid to Alex Manninger, who played for both Arsenal and Liverpool during his long playing career, after former goalkeeper died after his car was hit by train.

The scandal involving a large-scale scheme that allegedly affected dozens of Ukrainians continues to escalate.

Authorities in Guangdong, China, have launched an investigation after a woman allegedly threw around $162,000 in cash from the balcony of a high-rise apartment, triggering chaos on the streets below.

An investigation has revealed that Alexander Frolov Jr., the son of Evraz co-owner and longtime business partner of Roman Abramovich, together with financier Mikhail Lobanov, is linked to a multibillion-dollar investment scheme that left Russian investors facing heavy losses.

The so-called "mastermind" of an intricate kidney transplant racket has been arrested.

It is widely known that Ukraine continued importing coal from Russia after 2014 despite official bans.

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is at immediate risk in Israeli jails, where he has been attacked three times in as many weeks, including in one assault last month where prison guards set a dog on the 66-year-old, his lawyer has said.

From fake news websites to staged political protests and bogus medical conditions, asylum seekers and the advisers helping them are using an array of fabricated evidence to bolster their fake claims.

A Reform local elections campaigner whose tanning salon was visited by Nigel Farage praised Adolf Hitler, we can reveal.

A retrial regarding the death of football legend Diego Maradona began on Tuesday, a year after the first case resulted in a mistrial.

The case involving Vladimir Tishko’s assault on Emilia Vishnevskaya has reportedly taken a concerning turn.

Car trading, alleged fraud, and suspected draft evasion all intersect in the case of Volodymyr Filippov.

Eighty of Pablo Escobar’s “cocaine hippos” will be killed by wildlife officials in Colombia in an effort to control the spiraling population.

South East Water’s chief executive has admitted he “got it wrong” in his handling of recent water outages as he made a contrite appearance before MPs.

The nephew of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is standing for election as a London borough councillor in May.

Hundreds of Afghan women have been refused asylum in the UK in the past year amid plummeting grant rates, new analysis shows.

The economic fallout from the Iran war will hit the UK the hardest out of all the world’s advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

Queen Camilla is said to be considering a private meeting with victims of Jeffrey Epstein during her upcoming US visit.

A teenager has been charged with murder and aggravated sexual abuse for the killing of his stepsister, found hidden under a bed on a family cruise.

Fuel smuggling from Libya is a billion-dollar enterprise, yet the full scale of the maritime networks routinely transporting refined petroleum products out of the country remains largely hidden.