All news by author Emma Davis

A former Georgian defense minister is under investigation for his alleged role in a sprawling international call center scam that duped European victims out of their savings, prosecutors said Friday.

Downing Street said it would not comment on the discussions between two foreign governments.

A barista, Brandon Leung, 26, stole £4,000 from a café by using his own card machine to take customer payments. He spent months funneling the money into his bank account using a £70 SumUp chip and pin device.

Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Police are hunting two men and a woman after a British tourist was robbed and sexually assaulted as she left a Madrid club.

Passengers face travel woes ahead of the weekend as flights have been cancelled at Heathrow Airport and an upcoming road closure on the M62.

A famous white whale accused of being a Russian spy was shot to death by poachers, animal rights groups claim.

Government’s bill would prevent the 92 remaining peers who inherited their titles from sitting in upper chamber

Former home secretary got two fewer votes than Mel Stride, while Robert Jenrick leads race to succeed Rishi Sunak

Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei is in critical condition in hospital after being set on fire by her boyfriend.

Bella Nilsson’s company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste

Sentencing of Alexander Shiplyuk is latest prison term for scientists working on military programmes

Minister requests review of building project for bike shelter at Leinster House in Dublin

Tech company says it will follow legal proceedings ‘to their conclusion’ after tycoon’s death last month

Plans underline European carmakers’ problems in switching from petrol and diesel vehicles to electric models

Battle ahead for Labour as it introduces higher taxes and tougher environmental rules on producers

Connolly posted on X on the day of the Southport stabbings when false claims had spread on social media that the attacker was an illegal migrant.

A man in his twenties has been arrested after a woman in her eighties was found dead at a house in Tunbridge Wells.

The United States has released Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former Gulf Cartel leader who created the Zetas and ushered in the hyper-violent organized crime wars that have marked Mexico since the turn of the century.

Former Premier League defender and Cardiff City ‘club legend’ Sol Bamba has died at the age of 39.

A suspected gang of burglars have been arrested over a spate of burglaries in Ibiza - including on the home of radio DJ Nick Grimshaw

“We have no plans to raise capital gains tax,” came the reply as Rachel Reeves was quizzed on her tax plans on the campaign trail in June.

Sahra Wagenknecht, whose alliance opposes Nato and military aid for Ukraine, said she was ‘scared but fine’ after incident in Erfurt

Millions of people have been ordered to leave their homes after Typhoon Shanshan hit Japan.

A court in Thailand on Thursday found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that involved the victim being dismembered.