All news by author: Rachel Hagan

Igor Girkin, an extreme nationalist militia leader turned blogger, was arrested at his Moscow flat and detained for two months on extremism charges

Miguel Alvaro was solo holidaying in Istanbul last month when he went out to meet a friend for lunch and became lost, so asked policemen for directions before suddenly he was detained

The 33-year-old was training in Bali when he struggled to stand upright with the weight, falls onto his bum and hits the floor, causing the stacked barbell to come crashing down

Local media said that nearly a dozen palm trees in Alicante province fell due to the heat as parts of Spain reached cripplingly hot temperatures of nearly 45 degrees

The UK’s Ministry of Defence said in its daily update on Friday, that the recruitment drive of criminals only resulted in "one of the bloodiest episodes in modern military history"

Two-and-a-half-year-old Émile disappeared from Le Vernet in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence on Saturday when he was staying with his grandparents, as locals fear for the toddler's safety

The helicopter was lost from radar after departing from the mountainous Solukhumbu district in eastern Nepal and initial media reports indicated that all foreign nationals on board were Mexican

Nicole Raga was arguing with her brother over a pencil when the younger lad struck her on the head with his backpack containing a air of scissors which impaled her

A boat with around 200 people on has been found more than 80 miles south of Gran Canaria, according the Spanish Maritime Rescue Service

A Spanish aid group has said at least 300 people travelling in three boats from Senegal to Spain are missing and has slammed the search response as being inadequate

Police in the Chamonix region said today the unnamed hiker was taking a difficult track near the Bionnassay glacier, the smallest on the French side of the Mont-Blanc massif

An American woman who was attacked by a shark when snorkelling has escaped death and "is stable, conscious, and underwent surgery on her right leg"

Pictures, captured in Luziania, Brazil, show the man struggling to pull a heavy suitcase up two flights of stairs after he kidnapped the girl from outside her school

Sunbed wars have long been a common start to the mornings of British holidaymakers' trips abroad, where people wake up at the crack of dawn and place their towels on beds

Doctor Muhammad Walid Tamer was treating patients at a hospital in Syria when it came under attack from cluster bombs - he has warned Biden about the risks of sending them to Ukraine

Australian Bella, 10, developed a blister after a day at the beach and the minor injury seemed harmless - however, Bella’s mother Emma soon realised something wasn’t right

The mother threw a bed sheet from the window of the apartment in Wenzhou, China before people on the street caught the one-month-old baby in the makeshift parachute

During more than five months as a prisoner of war, Aiden Aslin was beaten "black and blue", stabbed, threatened with execution and witnessed the killing of another prisoner

Three people at a Kenyan cheese factory have been arrested on indecent assault charges after they forced female employees to strip when a sanitary towel was found in "the wrong bin"

James Smith, from the Wirral, was working with a team to clear a number of landmines about 20 metres away from Russian trenches when he stepped on a landmine

Andrew O'Donnell and Max Wall, both 18 and former pupils at St Michael's College, died in separate incidents over the weekend in Greece and the cause of their deaths has now been revealed

Instead of buying a ticket for the baby after they realised they did not have one, the parents strolled to passport control and left their baby in the car seat in Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel

Today Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told reporters that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is still in Russia and his troops have also not left the camps they stayed in before the attempted coup

The attack was the largest on Lviv’s civilian infrastructure since Russia invaded Ukraine last year and it destroyed entire floors of the residential building that was struck

Volodymyr Zelensky has called the Russian President "weak" and said the "power he used to have is just crumbling down" in scathing new comments about the Wagner rebellion