British foreign secretary Dominic Raab has called for a “full and transparent investigation” into the suspected poisoning of Russian activist Alexei Navalny. Mr Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, is in a coma after drinking a cup of tea reportedly laced with poison. He was moved from a hospital in the Siberian […]

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe looks at how some Italians are revaluating their colonial past in Africa. Rome’s city council voted earlier this month to name a future metro station in the Italian capital in honour of Giorgio Marincola, an Italian-Somali who was a member of the Italian resistance. He […]

Adviser linked to exams fiasco is given a key role in new planning changes that critics fear could see developers ‘concreting’ the countryside Tim Leunig joins team working on biggest changes to building laws in 70 years  Dr Leunig was on government group that advised how to standardise grades Standardisation led to the downgrading of […]

(Reuters) – The global death toll from the coronavirus approached 800,000 on Saturday, according to a Reuters tally, with the United States, Brazil and India leading the rise in fatalities. Nearly 5,900 people are dying every 24 hours from COVID-19 on average, according to Reuters calculations based on data from the past two weeks that […]

‘Covid? I need to get off my nut’: With nightclubs closed, police are battling to stop illegal raves blamed for spreading the virus… including 140 revellers cramming onto a canal boat in East London for brazen drugs party Soaked in sweat, random strangers hugged each other as music blared out. Class A drugs were openly […]

Police fear serial killer who targets elderly couples could still be at large after they re-examine two ‘murder-suicides’ A new 179-page report suggests that two cases of murder-suicide in the 1990s may be the work of a serial killer Stephanie Davies, Cheshire’s senior coroner’s officer, claims they were murders The report urges authorities to re-examine […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Fire crews made slow progress Saturday battling some of the largest wildfires in California history — thanks to improved weather conditions and additional resources coming from others states. But danger loomed with the threat of thunderstorms and lightning forecast for Sunday that could spark new fires and overwhelm firefighters battling hundreds of […]

BBC Radio veteran Richard Cartridge dies ‘from short illness’ aged 72 – just weeks after leaving job of 46 years Richard Cartridge, 72, died after a short illness just weeks after leaving his job Former BBC Radio Solent presenter retired in June after 46 years at the station He was one of Radio Solent’s longest-serving presenters […]

The body of Shakie Peters was discovered July 1 fatally shot along a roadside ditch in rural Amite City, Louisiana. She was 32. Police still don’t know if the victim was “shot there, or dumped there,” Chief Joe Chaney of the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office tells PEOPLE. No arrests have been made and no […]

A police officer has been sacked after he was filmed struggling with a black woman and tasering her during her arrest. Michael Oxford got into a scuffle with Kyndesia Smith, 22, on the porch of her mum’s house in Loganville, Georgia, US. The Gwinnett County cop was called to the property when a neighbour claimed […]