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Torrential rain following Typhoon Bualoi has triggered more flooding and landslides in Vietnam, where at least 26 people have been killed and more are missing. More than 30cm of rain hit parts of the country within 24 hours, with forecasters on Tuesday warning heavy downpours would continue. As the death …

A woman has pleaded guilty to money laundering offences over the UK’s biggest-ever cryptocurrency seizure of Bitcoin, currently worth more than £5bn. Chinese national Yadi Zhang, 47, who is also known as Zhimin Qian, was arrested in April last year after spending years on the run. She first arrived in …

Dozens of students are feared to be buried under the rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia. Rescuers were still working to free survivors in the early hours of Tuesday morning, more than 12 hours after the incident, with one fatality so far confirmed. The victim is a 13-year-old …

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5m (£18.6m) to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, filed after the video platform suspended his account in the wake of the 6 January attack on US Capitol. The settlement from the video streaming giant’s parent company Alphabet – which also owns Google – …

Electronic Arts (EA) is to be taken private under a $55bn (£41bn) buyout – a record sum for such a deal. Under the terms, private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Affinity Partners will pay the video game maker’s shareholders $210 per share. The …

The front window and door of a pizzeria have been smashed in what police are treating as a racially-motivated hate crime in County Antrim. The interior of Pizza Max on Main Street in Bushmills was also extensively damaged during the attack, which was reported at about 04:30 BST on Monday, …

Spain’s Valencia region has been struck by more bad weather, a year after deadly floods killed more than 230 people there. A red alert has been put in place as Storm Gabrielle hits the region. Footage shows floodwater in parts of Valencia and Zaragoza, in the neighbouring Aragon region. The …

Getty Images Gardaí (Irish Police) are currently at the scene of an ongoing “serious” incident in County Louth, in the Republic of Ireland. RTÉ (Irish broadcaster) has reported that three people, two men and a woman, have died. It is believed they were violently attacked and sustained fatal injuries. All …

Masked men have threatened a man and smashed several windows at a house in Londonderry. The attack happened at about 10.50 BST on Sunday evening in the Strabane Old Road area of the Waterside. No injuries were reported, but the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it was a …

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri’s upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company’s struggles as it tries to keep pace in the AI race are no secret. The next-gen Siri has been delayed multiple times and the debut of Apple Intelligence was met with …

A seafood firm has offered a £25,000 reward for information on the theft of a trailer containing £100,000 of frozen prawns. Sykes Seafood Ltd said criminals using a white DAF tractor unit carried the “fully loaded” trailer out of its secure facility in Merseyside earlier at about 00:50 BST. The …

A search for a fisherman missing off the coast of County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland has resumed. Emergency services were alerted at about 20:00 local time on Thursday when a member of the public reported a fishing vessel had run aground close to Mullaghmore Head. A multi-agency search …

Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of a child abduction offence after a missing teenage girl was found in Bournemouth, Dorset Police say. The 16-year-old who was believed to have travelled to the seaside resort was reported missing after she was last seen on 12 September. …

A man has been charged with murder after the body of a missing man was found in a derelict building in south-east London. The Metropolitan Police said officers searching a property in Brockley Road, Lewisham, on 19 September discovered the body of Junior Ryan Coleman. The 34-year-old had been reported …

Police are investigating vandalism at a mosque in East Renfrewshire that saw a pole thrown through a window while children were inside the building. The incident occurred at Clarkston Community Centre about 17:30 on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the mosque said the vandalism had caused distress to “children, their families …

The majority of OnePlus phones in use today may be vulnerable to a security flaw that leaves SMS and MMS data exposed, and it won’t be patched until mid-October. Only OnePlus phones still running 2020’s OxygenOS 11 or earlier are believed to be safe from the flaw. Security company Rapid7 …

Namibia’s authorities have warned people not to hold parties at cemeteries after a social gathering at a gravesite in the capital, Windhoek, sparked outrage last weekend. According to City of Windhoek officials, the event at Gammams cemetery “showed seating arrangements, cooler boxes and alcohol” on full display. One Windhoek resident …

Meanwhile, cycling’s world governing body the UCI announced it will retire the number 84 from women’s junior competition at the road worlds. It was assigned to Muriel Furrer, who died of a head injury following a crash during the women’s junior road race a year ago today in Switzerland. Organisers …

Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of “state interference” in the Netherlands, prosecutors say, in a case with reported links to Russian spying. The pair were allegedly contacted by pro-Russian hackers on the messaging app Telegram, Dutch media reported. One of the boys allegedly walked past the offices …

Steve Martin/BBC Suffolk Police arrested two males after a spate of vehicle fires in Ipswich A man and teenager have been arrested after cars, a minibus and transit van were set on fire overnight in four locations near each other. Suffolk Police was called by the fire service to reports …