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Three women have been stabbed in Paris, according to the capital’s prosecutor. Police detained a man suspected of carrying out the attacks at three Paris Metro stations on Friday evening. The women were stabbed at Republique, Arts et Metiers and Opera at around four pm local time. Firefighters treated all three at the scene and they suffered only minor injuries, with wounds reported to backs and thighs, according to Le […]

Coastguard and RNLI teams searching for two missing men off a beach in Devon have now been stood down. The men, aged in their forties and sixties, were believed to be in the water near Budleigh Salterton. Although several people were rescued earlier, the two men were not found, remain missing, and their families have been informed. Searches ended there. Ukraine has struck a major Russian oil refinery using British […]

A Slough man is among three arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a nineteen year old was stabbed in High Wycombe. A nineteen year old from Slough and two eighteen year old men from Birmingham were arrested and remain in custody. Police cordoned off an alleyway beside the Swan Car Park on Tuesday afternoon. Police are calling on the public to help find a thirteen year old boy who […]

An email sent to Ghislaine Maxwell referring to “the girls” being “completely shattered” at a Royal Family summer camp at Balmoral is among documents due for release in the latest Epstein files. The message was written by someone using the name The Invisible Man, signing off as A with three kisses, and is believed to be Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The context is unclear and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing. […]

Two men who were part of what police have called "London's most prolific Grindr gang" have been jailed for a combined eight-and-a-half years. Rahmad Khan Mohammadi, 23, and Mohammed Bilal Hotak, 21, used the gay dating app to target victims, stealing phones, passports and wallets in 35 burglaries and 20 related frauds, totalling sixty-eight thousand pounds over six months, the Met said. One victim was hospitalised with stress after loans […]

More than eight hundred migrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday in thirteen small boats, according to Home Office data. The figure is a record for a December day in recent years and is thought to reflect a backlog of people attempting the journey after recent periods of bad weather. The crossings take the total for the year to forty one thousand four hundred and fifty five people, surpassing the […]

The United States has been warned it risks a humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela after seizing another oil tanker. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed the operation on X, saying the vessel had last docked in Venezuela. She said the US would continue targeting the illicit movement of sanctioned oil used to fund narco terrorism in the region in a social media post. Jeffrey Epstein led two lives as a sex […]

David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins UK. A spokesperson said the company decided not to release any new titles by Walliams after careful consideration under the leadership of its new chief executive. HarperCollins said it takes employee wellbeing extremely seriously and has processes for reporting and investigating concerns, but would not comment on internal matters to respect privacy. Kylie Minogue’s festive hit Xmas is this year’s Christmas […]

The UK has named career diplomat Christian Turner as its new ambassador to the United States, Downing Street has confirmed. The previous ambassador, Peter Mandelson, was sacked by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer after evidence including emails and photos showed his continued association with the paedophile Jeffery Epstein. Turner has spent nearly thirty years working across Whitehall and the Foreign Office. In Washington he will need to manage relations with […]