All news by author Emma Davis

A schoolboy was denied boarding a Qatar Airways flight for his family’s £3,000 Thailand holiday - due to a faint ‘sticker mark’ on his passport.

Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.

In December 2023, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine found Ihor Ratushnyak, who had headed the Tyvriv District Court of Vinnytsia Oblast for many years, guilty of a corruption offence.

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis confirmed that the inaugural flight to Iraq’s capital would take place on 16 December.

As Ukrainian authorities probe massive embezzlement schemes involving state funds, one central figure is reportedly working to erase his past.

A man who spiked women’s drinks in a nightclub before raping and sexually assaulting them was caught on CCTV.

Amid relentless violence and atrocities by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have placed civilians in grave danger, journalists face a double threat: struggling to survive while being directly targeted for their reporting.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration lifted international sanctions on Milorad Dodik — the pro-Russian leader of the Serb-dominated region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska — as well as on his children, dozens of allies, and their companies.

Even as the Russian economy slides into recession, the country’s television propagandists have no incentive to defect from Team Putin — after all, their personal incomes are growing at unprecedented rates.

Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of State for Defense Affairs HE Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan Al Thani met with UK Secretary of State for Defense HE John Healy and his accompanying delegation during their visit to the State of Qatar.

Iran appears to be stepping up the rebuilding of its ballistic missile program, despite the reintroduction last month of United Nations sanctions that ban arms sales to the country and ballistic missile activity.

Polish prosecutors are seeking to charge Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro with misusing public funds and purchasing Israeli spyware Pegasus, allegedly to target opposition politicians.

British tourists have been advised to remain indoors after Storm Melissa completely submerged towns in Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early Wednesday, after devastating western Jamaica on Tuesday.

Voting is currently underway in parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, and polls suggest that Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV) could again be the frontrunner, although there’s little likelihood of it being part of the next government.

Democrats have labeled the Trump administration’s decision to remove export restrictions on American-made firearms as “a gift to violent cartels and drug traffickers.”

Two ‘Bob Shops’ were ordered to take urgent action on more than 80 issues after inspectors found a series of food hygiene breaches.

While the public’s attention is focused on the war, it seems everyone has forgotten that all those shady schemes, which various cunning operators profited from, haven’t disappeared.

Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has vowed to realize a “golden age” in her country’s relations with the US at the start of a meeting with Donald Trump in Tokyo.

Lithuania’s two border crossings with Belarus, at Medininkai and Šalčininkai, were both closed for several hours as a result of the balloon incidents.

The party of Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, has won Sunday’s midterm elections after a campaign in which US president Donald Trump announced a $40bn bailout for the country and made continued aid conditional on the victory of his Argentinian counterpart.

A diplomatic dispute has arisen over the “illegal” detention of a Ukrainian scientist, who has been accused by the Kremlin of undermining Russia’s industrial krill trawling efforts in Antarctica.

Russia has tested a new nuclear-powered cruise missile with an unlimited range, the country’s top general said.