All news for 2025-02-10

The man accused of trying to murder Salman Rushdie said "free Palestine" as he entered a US courtroom on Monday.

The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been told to stop minting one-cent coins, or pennies as they are widely called, by US President Donald Trump in an announcement on his Truth Social media account.

As soon as Donald Trump took office, Elon Musk effectively became the second most powerful figure in the White House.

‘Choose Europe and France for AI,’ says president amid speculation US and UK playing hardball over declaration

A father has been jailed for at least 15 years for murdering his daughter after the jury rejected his claim he had killed her in a play-fight.

A former Radio 1 DJ and convicted pedophile, known for his friendship with Jimmy Savile, has died at 79 after falling from a boat into a river.

A teenage soldier took her own life after she feared her ’psychotic and possessive’ boss had hacked her phone, an inquest has heard.

Aleksandr Lukashenko has been ruling Belarus for 30 years and plans to be “re-elected" for a seventh term in 2025. But what do voters really know about the "national leader", apart from what is broadcast by the press service and propaganda?

An inventor whose jet suits have won him comparisons with Iron Man says he’s poised to sign £24,000,000 of deals with special forces.

“Persistent and peaceful” campaigning by farmers on new inheritance tax rules could “get change”, Nigel Farage has said.

Kanye West has seemingly deleted his entire website with the exception of a single t-shirt that features a swastika symbol, available for purchase for $20 (£16.15).

The son-in-law of a Mexican drug lord pleaded guilty this week to a scheme that used violence and threats to fix prices and control the transnational used-car market at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Diane Abbott has condemned the participants in a group chat that mocked her and other Labour colleagues – which has led to two of the party’s MPs being suspended.

North Yorkshire power plant has been criticised for burning wood pellets sourced from US and Canadian forests.

CNN suffered yet another embarrassment Friday after using a graphic with the name ’Obama bin Laden’ on air.

Hamas says it is suspending the release of Israeli hostages from Gaza – leaving a ceasefire agreed with Israel to end 15 months of war inside Gaza on a knife edge.

A man was rushed to hospital last night after a stabbing in the centre of Croydon, police say. The victim, believed to be in his 20s, is expected to survive, but the knifeman remains at large, according to the force.

Eurojust and Europol supported an operation that put a halt to a criminal group that produced and sold counterfeit euro coins and bills.

An investigation reveals how suspected mafia-linked companies used fake documents to win 100 million euros in EU-funded contracts in Romania.

Greater Manchester Police has said that a "non-crime hate incident" has been recorded after a health minister was sacked over the weekend following comments made in a WhatsApp group chat.

In 2018, the company introduced policies that excluded applying AI in ways “likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone.