Former cryptocurrency exchange boss Sam Bankman-Fried hugged his parents after being denied bail on charges relating to “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”....
The former boss of one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges has been criticised after he was charged with defrauding investors out of $1.8bn (£1.5bn). Sam...
A teenager shot in the head by police after allegedly driving off without paying for €20 of petrol has died. The shooting of the 16-year-old has...
The European Parliament has stripped a Greek MEP of her role as one of the body’s vice-presidents over allegations that Qatar had bribed her to influence...
New Zealand has passed one of the world’s toughest anti-smoking laws that will gradually ban more and more people from ever being able to buy tobacco. ...
Police fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse supporters of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after they attempted to invade the federal police headquarters in...
Indian and Chinese forces have clashed along their disputed border – the first such incident between the two nuclear powers since deadly confrontations in 2020. They...
Eight people have been convicted for their role in a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathiser that killed 86 people...
A newly discovered piece of debris from flight MH370 suggests the pilot lowered the plane’s landing gear just before it plunged into the ocean, supporting the...
US scientists have carried out the first ever nuclear fusion experiment to achieve a net energy gain, paving the way for a “clean energy source that...
Rishi Sunak has promised to bring in new laws to tackle illegal immigration, saying anyone who comes to the UK illegally will not be allowed to...
A Tory MP has been made bankrupt after a court heard he owed around £1.7m. Adam Afriyie, who has held the seat of Windsor since 2005,...
Six people, including two police officers, have been killed in a gunfight at a remote home in Australia’s Queensland state. Constables Matthew Arnold, 26 and Rachel...
Talks to avert the nursing strike on Thursday have failed after the union leader behind the action accused the health secretary of refusing to discuss pay....
The mother wept with relief as she cradled her newborn baby at the only maternity hospital still working in the Ukrainian city of Kherson. Yulia Khomchyk,...
The Sudanese businessman embroiled in the Farmgate scandal is currently cooperating with the South African authorities – and would be willing to testify in any legal...
Three people have been killed by police at a property in rural Australia after a six-hour standoff that began with the “execution-style” shooting of two officers...
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was recently freed in a prisoner swap for US basketball star Brittney Griner, has signed up to a far-right pro-Kremlin...
Farmers living in the Republic of the Congo say that they have been barred from accessing their land so that the French oil giant Total Energies...
North Korea is “ready” to test a nuclear weapon and will likely do so, the prime minister of South Korea has said. Speaking exclusively to Sky...