Month: December 2024

The doors of the white van are thrown open. Dozens of armed French police jump on board, their colleagues on the ground form a human chain and get to work. 

The moment the suspect in a fatal attack on a German Christmas market was arrested has been captured on video by a passer-by. 

A police investigation is under way after a car was "driven at speed" into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany. 

At least one person has been killed after a car was driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany, local media reports. 

The US government has narrowly avoided a crippling shutdown after politicians agreed on a last-minute spending deal. 

Tesla has recalled almost 700,000 of its electric vehicles because of an issue with the warning light on the tyre pressure monitoring system. 

A children's charity has rejected a Christmas donation from outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. 

Wham! have made chart history, with Last Christmas becoming the first song to be crowned Christmas number one two years in a row. 

The co-manager for Donald Trump's presidential election campaign has called Lord Mandelson an "absolute moron" - as the peer was officially announced as the next UK ambassador to the US. 

A Frenchman who is on death row in Indonesia has made a last-ditch plea to return home - as the country's new president plans to pardon 44,000 prisoners.