All news by author Elizabeth Baker

Police had previously charged a 12-year-old girl with being in possession of offensive weapons following the incident in the Lochee area of the city.

A young British woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Dubai, her family revealed tonight.

A minister has defended the possibility of UK Government figures meeting Israeli president Isaac Herzog during his visit to Britain next week, amid criticism from within the Labour Party.

The matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family was convicted Thursday of murder in the killing of her former son-in-law, a prominent law professor who was locked in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife when he was gunned down in 2014.

Bolivian authorities arrested former Interior Minister Arturo Murillo on Thursday following his extradition from the United States, where he had been serving a prison sentence for money laundering, the Interior Ministry said.

London is preparing for a week of commuter chaos as members of the Rail, Maritime And Transport union (RMT) organize a five-day walkout.

Angela Rayner could be dismissed as early as today if Sir Keir Starmer’s ethics adviser determines that she violated the ministerial code by underpaying stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat.

Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.

A woman dubbed the "Ketamine Queen" has admitted to selling Friends star Matthew Perry the drug that killed him.

Pregnant drugs mule suspect Bella Culley’s distraught mother was seen visiting her daughter in Georgian prison today as lawyers say she may have to find £100,000 to free her.

The Green Party’s new leader has insisted he was ‘misrepresented’ over an article which said he could teach women to use their minds to increase their breast size.

Britain on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 11 new individuals and entities affiliated with the Russian state, targeting those involved in what it said were Moscow’s attempts to forcibly deport and indoctrinate Ukraine’s children.

Liz Truss has asserted that the Bank of England was in control during her tenure as prime minister.

Israeli drones dropped four grenades close to UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel as they were working to clear roadblocks, the force said on Wednesday.

The French actor Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting the actor Charlotte Arnould at his Paris home in 2018.

The Taliban have called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people and left thousands more injured.

A protester has climbed on top of the King’s Cross station clock tower while holding a dog, unfurling a banner reading ‘Freedom for Iran’ and ‘Iran belongs to its people’.

Tens of thousands of protesters silently marched in Belgrade on Monday to commemorate the deaths of 16 people killed when a roof on a renovated railway station collapsed, demanding snap elections they hope would oust President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling SNS party.

A mother fell 290ft to her death in front of her son while trying to take a selfie on a tower, moments after a successful bungee jump on her 45th birthday.

Angela Rayner cannot be fully transparent about the tax arrangements on her second home because there is a court order preventing her from revealing the relevant information, Downing Street has said.

Russia has stopped fighting money laundering; corresponding large criminal cases are not being initiated, and one-time operations on crypto exchanges are solely related to the redistribution of spheres of influence and do not escalate into large-scale investigations.

Witnesses have described the moment police confronted a man who allegedly crashed through the gate of the Consulate General of Russia in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.