All news by author James Turner

Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.

For a decade and a half, Syria’s “under-20” soccer teams routinely outperformed the national squad in big tournaments. An investigation by OCCRP and its partners found that dozens of players’ ages were understated — some by as much as five or six years.

The death toll from torrential rain and flooding in central and eastern Europe has risen to at least 16, with several more people missing, as authorities reported deaths in the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria and warned the worst may be to come.

In Brent, local people are upset with abandoned green bikes creating a hazard and teenagers speeding along pavements

It comes as French authorities rescued some 200 people off the coast of Calais over a 24-hour period between Friday and Saturday night.

Britain’s National Grid (NG.L), opens new tab said on Friday it had agreed to sell its Electricity System Operator (ESO) to the UK government for 630 million pounds ($827.95 million), including debt.

The chief executive of a sexual assault support service has stood down after a review found it failed to protect women-only spaces.

EasyJet’s parent company has lost a High Court trademark dispute against a shopping website which has “easy” in its name.

Kenya’s high court temporarily blocked a proposed deal for India’s Adani Group to lease the country’s main airport, court documents showed. The proposal sparked protests in Kenya and raised concerns in India over the country’s image.

Mel Stride has become the second candidate to exit the race for Conservative leader.

A soldier found dead in a river with rope wrapped around his legs and torso following an alleged assault died by accident.

Russian oligarchs are laundering money through the fintech company Dzing, which is linked to Putin’s “wallet” Arkadiy Rotenberg and has been caught in fraud.

Controversial banker Denys Horbunenko, linked to oligarch Dmytro Firtash, is actively erasing online references to his Russian connections.

A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.

Decision affects services such as Citymapper, while TfL says incident not believed to be ransomware attack

Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

A drunk passenger tried to storm the cockpit and open the door of an easyJet flight from Gatwick to Greece while it was 30,000ft in the air.

Pregnant woman among those killed in ‘horrifying’ incident as charities call on government to establish safe routes

Shaukat Ali, a Pakistani businessman who helped U.S.-based Steward Health Care secure a massive public contract in Malta, says he and his son were paid only normal consulting fees for their work. Leaked documents show they were promised much more.

James Denholm secretly filmed 17 people between June 2013 and August 2023, according to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.

Boeing’s Starliner has been dogged with problems for months, leading to two astronauts getting stranded in space for months longer than planned.