All news by author David Wilson

Eleven years of overpayments leave 63-year-old facing hardship and return to full-time work. A retired civil servant faces being forced back into full-time work after being ordered to return £25,000 in overpaid pension benefits.

A man found dead at a home in Suffolk earlier this week was shot by a crossbow, it has emerged.Paramedics called the police to the scene after finding the man, aged in his 50s, seriously injured at an address in Lordscroft Lane, Haverhill, shortly before 8pm on Tuesday.

The United Kingdom announced on Thursday new sanctions targeting the Russian military intelligence agency, commonly known as GRU, "in its entirety."

Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, was jailed for more than five years after she forged the will of 85-year-old Rita Barnsley to steal her life savings in one of the UK’s biggest elder fraud cases.

More than a year after OCCRP and CIReN reported on the two-decade legal saga of lawyer Christos Christodoulides — who absconded from a U.K. prison after a 2005 sentence for immigration fraud — the Cyprus Bar Association has decided to temporarily suspend his law license.

A memo sent to Warner Bros employees and viewed by The Independent stated the deal is subject to several conditions, including the completion of the separation of Discovery Global and Warner Bros Discovery.

Yesterday, Putin gave an interview to Indian media and unexpectedly said the following: "All these messaging apps, Telegram, they are used to somehow influence young people... We need to work with people...

Two individuals have been arrested as authorities in Europe and Israel focus on companies associated with advertising campaigns for fraudulent online investment platforms.

Approximately 700 Albanian families might be offered more than £3,000 to leave the UK, as ministers handle a rising immigration bill.

A 15-year-old is among 268 people being investigated for their suspected involvement in schemes linked to losses exceeding $4.66 million, following a two-week police operation.

Britain’s energy watchdog has given the green light to an initial £28 billion of investment to upgrade UK energy infrastructure, but revealed the move will push up network charges on household bills by £108.

Shipping containers sent by Noboa Trading Co. have been caught up in huge drug shipments sent from Ecuador to the Balkans.

More than 20 humanitarian workers are set to stand trial in Greece on migrant-smuggling and money-laundering charges, seven years after authorities arrested them for their work rescuing migrants and refugees at sea. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison.

Legendary guitarist for Booker T and the MG’s Steve Cropper, who also played with the Blues Brothers, has died aged 84.

Nomma Zarubina, who is charged with lying about her alleged contacts with Russian intelligence, was jailed after failing to heed warnings against drunk texting an FBI agent.

The media have identified a previously unknown business partner of Russian Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov — Yakov Babchenko, a former convict, poker and billiards enthusiast, and participant in budget-related schemes.

Around 50 million people worldwide are trapped in modern forms of slavery, “perpetuated by crime rings,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday.

The two pedestrians are in the hospital with serious injuries following the collision. An e-bike rider has died, and two pedestrians have been seriously injured following a crash, resulting in the closure of several roads by police. ​

BBC Eye published an investigation Monday claiming that Georgian police used an obsolete tear gas known as Camite during the mass protests in November 2024.

The program is set to provide up to €150 billion (£130 billion) in long-term loans to member states for defense spending and large-scale investments.

Leaked text messages from some of Fox News’ biggest personalities reveal how many of them really felt about Donald Trump after the president lost his first bid for reelection in 2020.