All news by author: Tim Hanlon

A yellow warning for wind has been issued by the Met Office with the possibility of 80mph gales while the country is also set to be battered by snow and heavy rain

Olivia Atkocaitis, now 19, is taking legal action against her adoptive parents as well as the police and several local bodies after she claims she was held as a slave, it is reported

Ilene Block, from Hawaii, has told how she has lost nearly 30 kilos in two and half years after becoming a bodybuilder in her 60s and is now competing in competitions

Nicola Bulley disappeared last Friday while taking her dog for a walk along the River Wyre, in Lancashire, and her children reportedly "cried their eyes out" when they heard she was missing

Disabled Gaby Assouline, 25, from Florida, who fell down a plane walkway after claiming she was not given help by Southwest Airlines staff, has now died after suffering horrific injuries last year

Stargazers are finding it ever more difficult to see into space due to the vast number of satellites that are now orbiting the Earth and it is expected to get far worse, astronomers have said

A TikTok video shows the bizarre scene of a fairground dodgem car heading down a residential road in Musselburgh, East Lothian, sparking laughter for people in a car passing by

Richard Thomas Alt, 31, disappeared in 1984 along with his girlfriend and a skull found in the Delaware River, Pennsylvania, has now been found to be his thanks to DNA testing

The body of missing Michigan teenager Adriana Davidson has been found by athletic fields at Pioneer High School, confirmed police, three days after she disappeared

The UK is set to see its economy contract 0.6% this year according to the International Monetary Fund which will be the worst performance of all the advanced nations

Puttawat Kamwan, 34, was found by his work colleagues in Thailand on a bed at his home where he appears to have died from an electric shock having fallen asleep while touching his charging mobile phone

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister has attacked the United States for supplying tanks to Ukraine and claimed that it is part of a "proxy war" to defeat Russia and have dominance in the region

The UK is set for another freezing start to the weekend with frost and fog, and -6C lows, before strong winds build up on Sunday afternoon that could reach more than 65mph

Flybe has gone into administration with all flights cancelled and will not be rescheduled, the airline and the Civil Aviation Authority have announced with people urged not to go to airports

US authorities have released footage from the attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband at their San Francisco home where he was hit with a hammer

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of US cities to seek justice following the release of a video showing five Memphis police officers beating black driver Tyre Nichols to death

Baltazar Lemos, 60, from Brazil said he had been saddened to see just two mourners turn up for a funeral and so he wanted to find out how many would come to his own

US President Joe Biden has said he is "outraged and deeply pained" to see footage of Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols, who later died from his injuries

Erin Cresswell, of Gateshead, who was described as an "exceptional" Cambridge University student was found dead in her college room and "had sadly been dead for some time", an inquest heard

Bitterly cold weather will continue into Friday with temperatures dropping as low as -6C while there is expected to be ice and dense fog in parts of the country

A United States military operation has killed a senior ISIS official along with 10 terrorists in a remote area of northern Somalia, with Joe Biden having given the go-ahead for the mission, said the US

A huge fire has torn through St Mark's Church in St John's Wood, north London, destroying the building which has been called an 'architectural and historical treasure'

Athena Brownfield's body has been identified in Grady County, Oklahoma, after remains were found last week. The four-year-old has been missing and is alleged to have been murdered on December 25

Construction work in Jerusalem has led to the discovery of a well-preserved mysterious handprint in the wall of a moat that dates back at least 1,000 years and it has left researchers baffled

New published research suggests that the inner core of the Earth may now be rotation more slowly than the mantel over the past 10 years