All news by author James Smith

President Donald Trump has been envisioning a new ballroom on the White House campus for a decade and a half.

The June events in Yekaterinburg seem to have exposed a massive abscess on the "body" of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

A German court has found a former Bundestag lawmaker guilty of bribing officials on behalf of Azerbaijan, sentencing him to a suspended prison term in a significant ruling related to the Azerbaijani Laundromat corruption scandal.

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever documented occurred today in Russia’s Far East and seems to have been predicted just days earlier on a YouTube channel.

Alhaji Mamadi Kurang, a former official in Gambia’s financial crimes commission, states he has endured years of threats, legal pressure, and professional isolation for revealing alleged wrongdoing by investigators assigned to probe the multibillion-dollar corruption of former President Yahya Jammeh.

The King has led a chorus of praise for the "amazing" Lionesses following their European Championship victory on Sunday.

A woman’s dead body was discovered at home after police arrested a man attempting to hold up an Asda supermarket.

A teenager has been killed in an electric motorbike crash in Northumbria.

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested that the UK will play a role in dropping aid into Gaza by air after more than a third of MPs signed a letter calling on the government to recognise a Palestinian state.

Asylum seekers have been discovered using government-issued debit cards to support their gambling habits in betting shops and casinos throughout the UK.

Marset, who is wanted in the U.S. and Paraguay, styled himself as a music promoter across Latin America.

Move by the Ukrainian president is widely opposed and may prove a setback to the hopes of the country joining the EU one day.

A nine-year-old girl was shot in the head when a gunman on a motorbike opened fire during a ‘planned assassination’ between warring Turkish gangs, the Old Bailey has heard.

Fuel smuggling from Libya is a business with billion-dollar turnovers, but very little is known about the extent of the maritime operation that regularly exports petroleum products from the country.

Police searching for a missing woman have initiated an underwater search after she was last spotted at a petrol station.

Four students lost their lives when their car collided with a building. The driver, who was over the alcohol limit and traveling at 94mph in a 30mph zone, lost control, as revealed in an inquest.

The White House confirmed on Thursday that US President Donald Trump, 79, has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency after experiencing "mild swelling" in his lower legs.

Deep in the Russian heartland, hundreds of kilometers from home, Ukrainian prisoners of war were tormented by a sadistic doctor. Reporters set out to unmask him.

Offshore companies, mystery lenders, and a flat near a Belarus-linked tycoon’s business—investigations reveal how Lithuania’s prime minister secured public loans, undeclared real estate, and private backing—all while denying any wrongdoing.