All news by author Sophia Martinez

A former human rights lawyer has been spared jail over false claims of abuse made against British troops fighting in Iraq.

Israel will set up a “sterile defensive zone” in Southern Syria, the country’s Defence Minister reportedly said on Tuesday.

A pupil was suspended for hacking his school’s network while in a computer science class because he was ‘bored’.

Luigi Mangione was last night arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson – but who is he and what do we know about him?

A British woman, aged 44, has sadly died after crashing her car in Italy - police spotted her car in a canal but by the time they retrieved her body it was too late

Train operators in the UK are the most expensive in Europe, according to new analysis.

Terrified onlookers whipped out their phones and captured the moment a 13-year-old girl was forced out of a Ferris wheel pod and left dangling out the side for a gruelling few minutes

A criminology student spent a month planning a random murder so he could ‘know what it would be like to take life’, a court has heard.

Asma Al Assad was once seen as the face of female liberation in the Middle East; with her successful career in banking and her secular British upbringing.

As statues of Assad and his father Hafez were being toppled across Syria, in Damascus a jubilant Ghazal al-Sharif was rejoicing. He said: “Damn his soul and the soul of the entire Assad family"

The Prince of Wales is set to meet Donald Trump in Paris on Saturday, as the pair join world leaders for the ceremonial reopening of Notre-Dame.

Out of 174 seats in the November election, 44 went to women in a representation of slightly more than 25%

Romania’s Constitutional Court has annulled the first round of the presidential election amid allegations of Russian interference, which reportedly helped far-right candidate Călin Georgescu emerge as a surprising frontrunner.

More than 1,600 people have been arrested following a week-long crackdown on county lines drug gangs.

TikTok star and model Gaxiola Orozco was killed when she was targeted by a gunman while sitting in her Mercedes Benz

Russian military intelligence (GRU) enlisted an Estonian pro-Russian propagandist to orchestrate a series of vandalism acts designed to intimidate and silence critics of Russia within Estonia. The targets of these attacks included the country’s interior minister.

Five months to the day since becoming Prime Minister, Keir Starmer delivered a major speech and unveiled his ’Plan for Change’ - a vision for the country over the next five years

More than half of British employers plan on cutting jobs and raising their prices in response to Labour’s first budget, a Bank of England survey has found.

Charles Hanson has appeared in Derby Crown Court through a video link for a short hearing concerning his upcoming trial for allegedly assaulting his estranged wife

Journalists and outlets writing about connections between the family of Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the "laundromat" for Russian "dirty" money, Octobank, have started receiving threats.

The chief executive of a major US health insurance company has been shot dead in New York.

It could take only six months for enemy soldiers to destroy the entire British Army in a major war, a defence minister has warned.

Nigerian anti-fraud agency makes historic asset recovery, seizing property linked to illegal activities by government officials.