Month: February 2025

Russia has reportedly released a American citizen who had been detained on drug charges, just hours ahead of its talks with the US over Ukraine. 

A battle for power is raging in Germany.  

On a bright but chilly February morning, around a dozen volunteers gather by the beachfront at Minster, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. 

Nearly 39,000 child sex abuse image crimes were recorded last year - with an "unacceptable loophole" in the law leaving children vulnerable on messaging services, says the NSPCC. 

Successive governments trying to look "tough on crime" have driven a rising prison population that's overwhelmed the system, according to a report. 

At least 31 people have died after a bus crash in Bolivia, police have said. 

Sir Keir Starmer was the first leader to arrive at this meeting in Paris, strolling down the road from the British Embassy. 

A woman who stole Jellycat soft toys worth almost £3,000 from garden centres in Norfolk has been sentenced for shoplifting. 

A plane has crashed at Toronto Pearson International Airport – with local media reporting it flipped on landing. 

A fire that ripped through a luxury central London hotel popular with celebrities started accidentally from a pizza oven, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said.