He was acquitted last month of racketeering and sex trafficking while being convicted of two counts of a prostitution-related offence.

A massive wildfire is churning through Los Padres National Forest in central California, threatening hundreds of homes after injuring at least three people, authorities said. The Gifford Fire spans ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered house arrest for former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial for allegedly leading a coup attempt after losing the 2022 election. Prosecutors accuse Bolsonaro ...

AI has ‘supercharged’ fraud threats, according to Cifas, whose members include banking, retail, insurance, and telecoms bodies.

The Tories claim scrapping the £500 dividend allowance will drag an estimated 5.22 million more people into paying investment levies.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has led tributes following the death of former Labour Party general secretary Lord Tom Sawyer. He said the former trade unionist’s “place in our party’s history is ...

Ross Moran, Network Rail Scotland’s route director, said: “Storm Floris has caused significant disruption to Scotland’s railway, with wind speeds of up to 90mph, unprecedented for a summer storm. “Our ...

Around 2,700 homes in Ireland are still without power after Storm Floris brought strong winds to the island. Weather alerts remain in place on both sides of the border. In Northern Ireland several ...

MOTORISTS are being warned to expect delays after the M62 was closed in Warrington this rush hour, Monday. The road has been shut eastbound between junction eight at Burtonwood and nine at Winwick.

Dame Stella Rimington, the first female director general of MI5, has died aged 90, her family announced. Dubbed the “housewife superspy” when she came into the role, she is widely credited as the ...

The defections of the Cambridge spies – Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean – still cast a long shadow over the intelligence community, fuelled in part by the conspiracy theories of MI5 officer ...

Reform UK’s Warrington branch is ‘not getting carried away’ after winning the by-election in the Bewsey and Whitecross ward to secure ...