Hurricane Melissa has made landfall with sustained winds of around 185 miles per hour, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The storm remains a category five hurricane and is described as “extremely dangerous and life-threatening.” Authorities in affected areas are urging residents to take all precautions, with evacuations underway in some coastal communities. Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his military to immediately carry out strikes in Gaza. […]

David Lammy has confirmed an independent investigation into the accidental release of a migrant jailed for sexual offences, blaming “human error” for the incident. The deputy prime minister and justice secretary told MPs he was “livid” on behalf of Hadush Kebatu’s victims and said the man would be deported to Ethiopia “as quickly as possible”. Kebatu, convicted in September of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, […]

Police are urgently searching for a man suspected of raping a woman in what officers are calling a racially motivated attack. West Midlands Police say they were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall just after seven fifteen on Saturday evening after reports of a woman in distress. The victim, in her twenties, was found to have been raped and assaulted at a nearby property by a man she […]