Just 24 hours after Amy Hunt celebrated her crowning moment in the women’s 100m, Glave and Azu ensured Britain’s continental sprint dominance continued on home soil. Glave has made significant progress this season, breaking the 10-second barrier for the first time in legal conditions to win his first British title in June. He has run […]
Russia has released a former US Marine who was jailed in 2022 and was reportedly in extremely poor health. Robert Gilman, from Massachusetts, was freed “from detention for humanitarian reasons” and flying on a US plane to Washington, DC, on Tuesday, according to Kirill Dmitriev, special envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Massachusetts Senator Ed […]
A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war. Assad fled from Damascus to Moscow with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending his family’s five-decade grip on power. In the […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an order that calls for fewer childhood vaccines and also recommends splitting the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) shots. “Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today,” Trump said. “In those times, people were much healthier and of course the high rates of autism […]
New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to stop betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high streets. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been “hollowed out” by decades of decline and “for many people, the high streets they grew up with have become unrecognisable”. BBC […]
A former Thai MP allegedly shot dead a local official in Bangkok, then dialled into a YouTube livestream to inform the host – a political pundit – of what he had done. Former Nonthaburi MP Chalong Reawraeng told the shocked host, Anchalee Paireerak, that he had shot Thongchai Yenprasert, a former police official, outside Thongchai’s […]
Thames Water paid its finance chief a £1m signing-on fee in July as the company struggles with a mountain of debt and faces temporary nationalisation. Steve Buck joined the company in April 2025 but it is understood the seven-figure payment was not made until last month after the company had taken legal advice over its […]
When Mathipa was assigned to the case a month later, he issued a subpoena to special forces to force them to hand over full details of this alleged training exercise and all the personnel involved. When access to these documents was finally promised, three months later, Mathipa had a premonition that he would be murdered […]
Netanyahu’s statement does not come as a surprise. But he has taken some time to make it, perhaps reflecting the difficult position the Israeli leader is in. He clearly is unhappy with Trump’s plan but at the same time he will not want to upset his closest ally. It’s just over a week since Trump […]
Prosecutors in Ecuador have charged a former interior minister and six others on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of a presidential candidate in 2023. José Serrano and the head of cartel Los Lobos, Wilmer “Pipo” Chavarria, were implicated in the murder of Fernando Villavicencio at a campaign event in the capital, Quito, days […]
