All news by author Thomas Brown

Police in Nepal detained the prominent executive over multimillion-dollar financial irregularities just days after immigration officials barred him from leaving the country.

When three villagers from China’s Sichuan province wrote to local officials in 2022 asking why the government was confiscating their land and evicting them from their homes, they received a terse reply: It was a "state secret."

Canadian police have charged a man in Calgary in an extortion investigation involving members of the city’s South Asian community, after a series of threats, property attacks and at least one shooting.

Italy’s competition authority said on Thursday it had fined several companies of the Revolut group more than 11.5 million euros ($13.25 million) for alleged unfair commercial practices.

The online casino Cosmobet is officially fronted by a statistician who, outside the gambling industry, is better known for his interest in globalism and marathon running.

Since marrying Zara Phillips in 2011, Mike Tindall has experienced many interesting moments with the Royal Family.

Sensational headlines about the nationalization of Amkodor and the retirement of its former owner, which appeared in the media March 2025, proved far from reality.

A major financial scandal has erupted in Moscow. At the center are Irina Baranova, who presents herself as a top-level international HRD, and her husband Stanislav Azarov — a “premium architect with a global name and furniture collector.”

Following his resignation as head of the Samruk-Kazyna national wealth fund, Akhmetzhan Yesimov came under intense scrutiny.

Bursa Mayor Mustafa Bozbey and 54 others were detained on Tuesday in a sweeping corruption probe, a move the opposition condemned as politically motivated.

An ’academically gifted’ teenager asked ChatGPT for advice about how to kill himself before taking his own life the next day, an inquest heard.

The Jewish Leadership Council has condemned Wireless festival for booking Kanye West, also known as Ye, to headline all three nights of the forthcoming north London event in light of increased attacks on the UK Jewish community, calling the organisers “deeply irresponsible”.

A recent investigation suggests that the Odesa Port Plant is again incurring significant financial losses, allegedly due to manipulated gas procurement tenders and offshore export schemes.

The advisor to the president of the International Judo Federation, Marius Vizer, is linked to businesses involved in the trade of Russian oil and grain.

India has stepped up naval coordination to protect its commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf after escalating tensions in the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Following the exposure of a large-scale money laundering scheme involving more than €75 million, reportedly linked to a Europol operation, businessmen brothers Vladlen and Gennady Hiriny have begun actively cleansing their online footprint.

As missile sirens sounded over Israel earlier this month, thousands of Israelis received text messages purportedly from their military, urging them to download a fake shelter app that could have stolen vast amounts of personal data.

In 2025, Cypriot police carried out Operation “Ring,” exposing a money-laundering scheme organized by Kherson businessmen Hennadiy and Vladlen Hirin.

In August 2024, two white men escaped the sweltering heat of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, in the lobby of the Hôtel de l’Amitie, a stone’s throw from the National Museum.

US drugmaker Eli Lilly is set to sign a $2bn deal with a Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company, underscoring the pharmaceutical sector’s growing reliance on China-developed medicines.

Police failed to solve a colossal 92 percent of burglaries in Britain last year, an investigation revealed today.

In a quiet park behind the local library, a young woman returns to a burnt-out tent and the sofa she now sleeps on — homeless due to a crippling addiction to the horse tranquilizer drug ketamine.