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The police watchdog is to examine new complaints from victims of Mohamed Al Fayed about the way the Metropolitan police handled allegations against him

The complaints by two victims of the former Harrods owner will be investigated by the force’s directorate of professional standards under the direction of Independent Office …

The asylum seekers sent to live on the Bibby Stockholm complained of the same recurring dream. As they slept in narrow bunk beds on the barge, they dreamed they were disappeared from the UK in the dead of night, the boat slipped from its moorings by the Home Office, drifting …

Rescuers in China’s Tibet region were continuing to search for survivors in freezing conditions on Wednesday after a devastating 6.8-magnitude quake struck the remote area and killed at least 126 people.

The powerful quake struck the foothills of the Himalayas

on Tuesday

Good morning. What is a news story in the UK? Whatever Elon Musk says it is. That is the conclusion you might draw, anyway, from the influence of the billionaire Trump adviser’s posts on X claiming that “a quarter-million little girls were – still are – being systematically raped by …

As South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol

remains barricaded

The scenes outside …

Music lovers spent a record £2.4bn on streaming subscriptions and physical music last year as the UK music industry finally recovers from the digital revolution that ushered in rampant online piracy and the

slow death of the CD

Subscriptions to streaming services such as Spotify, Amazon and …

The UN special envoy for Syria will urge the security council to back a transition to a pluralist democratic Syria, but faces resistance within the country. The interim government fears the lifting of sanctions will be tied to excessive demands imposed by the west, with suspicion of the UN deeply …

The ring of fire is a 40,000km long horseshoe shaped belt that wraps around the Pacific Ocean.

The ring, also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is home to 75% of the world’s active volcanoes, and 90% of its earthquakes. Many of the world’s most powerful earthquakes have occurred along this …

A former Cambodian opposition MP and French citizen was shot dead by a gunman on a motorcycle in Bangkok on Tuesday, according to Thai media.

“Lim Kimya... died at the scene. Officers with the Metropolitan Police Bureau have launched a manhunt for the assassin,” the Bangkok Post reported, adding that …

China’s military launched a record number of warplane incursions around Taiwan in 2024 as it builds its ability to launch full-scale invasion, something a former chief of Taiwan’s armed forces said Beijing could be capable of within a decade.

Analysts said China’s relentless harassment had taken a toll on Taiwan’s …