A police volunteer has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor who was on duty in Kolkata, a crime that sparked protests across India amid concern about violence against women and girls. The outcry over the killing of the 31-year-old physician in August led to the trial being fast-tracked through…
Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, joining other European far-right figures including Éric Zemmour, a one-time French presidential candidate known for his xenophobia. Meloni’s attendance at the event in Washington DC on Monday was confirmed by her office and will be seen as further cementing relations with the…
A key figure in the fight for justice after the Hillsborough disaster has died, the campaign group has announced. Phil Hammond, whose teenage son was killed in the tragedy, was remembered as a “very kind, fair, honest and humble man” by members of the Hillsborough Family Support Group (HFSG) which Hammond chaired, battling for truth…
Three more people have been charged with murder after a woman was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a north-west London church. Michelle Sadio, 44, died after shots were fired in Harlesden at about 9pm on 14 December. She was standing with mourners outside the River of Life pentecostal church after a wake. Two men…
Sunday train services will be as reliable as those on weekdays under plans to renationalise the railways, the new transport secretary will claim in a keynote speech on Monday. Issuing a series of pledges on which the government will be judged by millions of passengers – as well as its political opponents – Heidi Alexander…
The diaries of an antisemitic British socialite who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and struck up a personal relationship with the Nazi leader have been discovered, according to the Daily Mail. The leather-bound journals, which had been lost to historians and unseen for eight decades, appear to reveal the extent of Unity Mitford’s relationship with…
The impeached president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, has argued that he be released from custody before a court in Seoul, which is considering whether to grant a request for his formal arrest. Yoon has been in detention since being seized in a large law enforcement operation at his residence on Wednesday. He has…
A British man living in Italy has admitted stabbing his partner to death, claiming he did it after she accused him of cheating on her. Michael Whitbread, 75, told a court he could not remember how many times he stabbed fellow Briton Michele Faiers, 66, in October 2023. The couple had been living in a…
A doorbell camera on a Canadian home has captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as it crashed into a couple’s walkway. When Laura Kelly and her partner returned home after an evening walk, they were surprised to find their walkway littered with dust and strange debris, according to the Meteoritical Society,…
Trump says inaugural address will be delivered in Capitol rotunda due to cold weather Donald Trump has confirmed that his inauguration ceremony will take place inside the Capitol on Monday, due to low temperatures forecast in Washington DC that will make holding the traditional outdoor swearing-in unsafe. Trump made the news official in a post…
