All news by author David Wilson

Politics

05 Jan 2025 770

Keir Starmer urged to investigate anti-corruption minister for receiving a flat from a man linked to an ousted dictator

Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to investigate his own anti-corruption minister for being given a flat...

News

05 Jan 2025 819

NATO is dissatisfied with the state of the UK’s air defense

NATO members consider the state of the UK’s air defense to be inadequate, with virtually no means of protection against ballistic missiles.

World

04 Jan 2025 830

Thousands of opposing protesters rally in Seoul after Yoon Suk Yeol’s arrest is avoided

Crowds gather outside South Korean presidential residence where suspended leader is protected by security officers.

World

03 Jan 2025 701

Intoxicated Zambian officer releases 13 suspects in New Year celebration

A drunken police officer in Zambia freed 13 suspects from custody so that they could go and celebrate the new year, officials say.

World

03 Jan 2025 651

IDF discloses bold operation by 120 commandos at Iranian missile facility in Syria

Elite Air Force unit breached underground facility 200 kilometers from Israel, laid explosives and escaped unscathed after 2.5 hours, in one of the most complex operations to date.

Tech

02 Jan 2025 809

Mystery space debris falls on village in Kenya sparking ‘end of the world’ fears

Villagers were shocked to see a 500kg ring of partially burnt metal fall from the sky in Kenya.

Crime

02 Jan 2025 608

Man dies from injuries after car crashed into crowd in central London on Christmas Day

A 25-year-old man has died after a car crashed into a crowd of pedestrians on Christmas morning.

Finance

02 Jan 2025 711

Top 500 wealthiest individuals amass over $10 trillion in 2024

An indomitable rally in US tech stocks plays a key role in turbocharging the wealth of industry titans.

Investigation

02 Jan 2025 608

Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, the suspect in the New Orleans attack, had an ISIS flag inside the car he drove into a crowd

New Orleans suspect Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar is said to have had an ISIS flag inside his car when it careered into a group of people celebrating New Year’s Eve.

01 Jan 2025 643

British Airways makes major change to loyalty scheme, upsetting customers

British Airways is making big changes to its loyalty programme, starting next year.

News

31 Dec 2024 862

Teen girl causes chaos on EasyJet flight, forcing emergency landing in Italy

A flight full of Brits was forced to make an emergency landing after a teenage girl attacked a cabin crew member and attempted to open the plane door mid-flight.

News

30 Dec 2024 632

The UK’s richest plumber from £70m fortune quitting Britain over Labour tax raid

Charlie Mullins is the country’s richest plumber but has moved to Spain over fears he could be hit with a nasty inheritance tax bill.

News

30 Dec 2024 742

British teen, 18, ’surrenders’ to Dubai authorities to begin one-year sentence after ’holiday romance’ with girl, 17, in UAE

A British teenager who was sentenced to one year in a Dubai jail following a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl from London has handed himself in to UAE authorities.

World

30 Dec 2024 646

Two men found dead ‘while looking for Bigfoot’ in US national forest

Two men have been found dead after setting off on an expedition to find the mythical Bigfoot creature, police in the US state of Oregon said.

News

30 Dec 2024 707

Police ’extremely concerned’ for unidentified woman dragged into car and assaulted

Police are ‘extremely concerned’ for a woman who was seen being dragged into a vehicle and assaulted.

World

29 Dec 2024 730

Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100

Former president faced series of economic and foreign policy crises, including Iran hostage affair and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

World

28 Dec 2024 805

At least 15 injured as high-speed train crashes into fire truck

At least 15 people have been wounded after a high-speed train ploughed into a fire truck in Florida.

News

28 Dec 2024 690

Researchers claim ’dubious’ use of Freedom of Information Act blocks access to Prince Andrew files

Biographer says government departments give contradictory refusals to requests and accuses them of ‘cover up’

News

28 Dec 2024 739

Thousands of British soldiers set to join NATO war games near Ukraine’s border

Thousands of British troops will join a two-month long exercise in Romania, rehearsing rapid deployments to counter Russian threats and showcase NATO’s defence readiness

World

27 Dec 2024 843

British woman jailed in Thailand for attempting to have sex on a table identified and pictured

The identity of a British woman languishing in a Thai prison cell after allegedly trying to have sex on a glass table has been revealed.

World

27 Dec 2024 862

US sanctions billionaire founder of Georgia Dream party

The US has imposed sanctions on Georgia’s former prime minister and billionaire founder of the Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Crime

27 Dec 2024 733

Man charged with attempted murder after group struck by car in London’s West End on Christmas Day

Police were called to reports of a collision and a car driving on the wrong side of the road on Shaftesbury Avenue in the capital’s theatre district in the early hours of Christmas Day.

News

26 Dec 2024 800

Hundreds of theatres and museums face closure as crisis in sectors laid bare

Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure

Crime