All news for 2025-01-06

A major incident has been declared due to widespread flooding across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, with dozens rescued by emergency services.

Gunmen stormed satirical paper’s Paris offices, killing 11 people, over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad

The year 2024 included some stark reminders that drug trafficking money can reach the highest levels of politics. From Honduras to Mexico to Colombia, allegations of narco-political contributions shook the foundations of power and disrupted international relations.

Two Malaysian scammers behind SingliWorld and TriumphFX have been jailed.

Kim Jong Un has reportedly banned North Koreans from eating hotdogs and ordered imprisonment for divorcing couples in a bizarre new crackdown.

A prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate in his cell has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is facing trial over allegations that his 2007 presidential campaign was illegally funded by millions of euros from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

A 25-year-old man, Imran Chowdury, has been charged with assisting Daniel Khalife, a former British army soldier who escaped from HMP Wandsworth in south London in September 2023.

A six-month-old baby girl, critically injured after being struck by a car in a Tenby car park on Thursday, has passed away.