All news for 2025-01-31

Hearing likely in May, seven months after government decided to carve out jet parts from arms export ban

Gaie Delap had prison term extended because contractors could not find wrist strap of right size

OpenAI on Friday released o3-mini, an AI model that focuses on improved reasoning capabilities at a more modest cost than its predecessor.

South African authorities have recovered R475,000 from Chinese “click a button” app Ponzi scammers (~$25,640 USD).

On Thursday, Dawei Zhang (38) and Han Chung Tang (46) were sentenced by the three-judge Court of Appeal to two years and six months in prison with the final 12 months suspended on condition they be of good behaviour

A Dublin woman has told how she was scammed out of €25,000 by a fraudster pretending to be Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.

Georgian journalist jailed after protest, on hunger strike as EU and rights groups call for her immediate release.

Authorities confiscated real estate and cryptocurrency from the suspects.

KRIK reports that energy deals feature prominently in encrypted messages between a drug trafficker and his associates, including a pro-government businessman.

Emily Damari, 28, was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October 2023 by Hamas gunmen who shot her in the hand and leg, as well as killing her pet dog. She told Sir Keir Starmer she was given a single bottle of out-of-date iodine to treat her wounds.

A young man was thrown into the air and landed in the backseat of a BMW convertible after being struck by a speeding drug dealer.

Steven Paul McInally was stopped by border guards at Orlando International Airport when he arrived for a holiday in Florida. He had almost 4,000 images of child abuse on his phone

The workers who traveled from China to northeast Brazil to build a new factory for electric car maker BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab earned roughly $70 per 10-hour shift, over twice the Chinese hourly minimum wage in many regions. For many, that made signing up an easy decision - but getting out would be much harder.

A British man who went on holiday to Thailand to see his friend has been reported missing after failing to board his flight home.

A financial company found itself at the center of a scandal due to suspicions of money laundering in favor of the gambling business.

Hamas has released the names of the three Israeli hostages who are set be freed this weekend.

The black boxes have been found for the passenger plane that crashed with a military helicopter over Washington DC which has left 67 presumed dead.

Facility near Beijing, 10 times size of Pentagon, may have been under construction since mid-2024.

Oligarch Igor Yusufov, close to Dmitriy Medvedev, continues to actively remove information from the internet, especially materials mentioning connections between his family and the Medvedev family.

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti’s disappearance earlier this month sparked a major search operation. Police Scotland previously said there had been nothing to suggest "suspicious circumstances or criminality".

The judges who oversaw family court proceedings involving Sara Sharif in the years before her death have been named following a Court of Appeal ruling.

An expert has been accused of signing off fire safety certificates for flats in high-rise blocks using the credentials and signature of another engineer without permission, the BBC has been told.

The US President appeared to be stepping on the toes of Washington DC first responders early this morning when he made a series of bizarre claims following the plane crash