Month: February 2025

A woman has died and thousands of people have been urged to move to higher ground due to major flooding in northern Australia. 

A former British soldier who escaped from Wandsworth prison while awaiting trial for spying for Iran has been jailed for 14 years and three months. 

A member of one of Scotland's largest paedophile gangs intends to appeal against his conviction and prison sentence. 

Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu has died at the age of 48, after contracting pneumonia that developed following the flu. 

Harry Parker was just 14 years old when he was hit and killed by a car on his way to school in Swindon. 

A man has been charged with attempted murder after three police officers were injured in an "altercation" at a police station in Rhondda Cynon Taf. 

Bill Gates says he believes he would have been diagnosed with a form of autism if he had grown up in this era. 

KKR, one of the world's biggest private equity investors, is advancing plans to play a crucial role in a rescue of Britain's biggest water supplier. 

The UK and the US have a "fair and balanced trading relationship", Number 10 has said, after Donald Trump claimed the UK is "out of line". 

A senior pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine has been killed in a bomb blast in the lobby of a luxury apartment building in Moscow.