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The Chicago man who allegedly doused a woman in gasoline and lit her on fire on 17 November was a “career criminal”, the White House has said. Lawrence Reed who was arrested for the crime had 72 prior arrests that include eight felony convictions and seven misdemeanors, according to the …

A British man who was accused of trying to drown his daughter-in-law at a Florida swimming pool has been released, after agreeing to a plea deal. Mark Raymond Gibbon, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, was arrested in August after an incident where he was alleged to have repeatedly held the 33-year-old underwater …

Volunteers at a community garden in central London have been reuniting phone theft victims with their stolen devices. BBC News

A man who admitted to assaulting two police officers during disorder in the Ely area of Cardiff has been given a suspended sentence. McKenzie Danks, 22, from Caerau, pushed one officer and threw a slider shoe at another but caused no injuries. On Wednesday, Cardiff Crown Court heard it happened …

Lucy AshtonSouth Yorkshire political reporter South Yorkshire Police South Yorkshire Police have crackdown on e-bikes in Sheffield city centre Immigration officers have joined police patrols after a number of takeaway delivery riders on e-bikes were found to be working illegally. South Yorkshire Police targeted e-bikes in Sheffield city centre and …

Binance and its founders, including billionaire Changpeng Zhao, are facing a lawsuit in the US accusing the company of helping send millions of dollars to US- designated terrorist organisations, including Hamas and Hezbollah. The legal action against the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform was brought by US victims of the 7 …

Police have released an e-fit of man they would like to trace six years after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted in the street. The girl had just left a party in Westhall Road, Warlingham, at about 23:30 BST on 25 May, 2019 when she was attacked by an unknown …

Shetland residents have been reminded to lock their doors after the first reported theft from a house on the islands this year. Three rings, which included wedding and engagement rings, were stolen between 08:00 on Friday and 07:30 on Monday at a property in Lerwick located between Hill Lane and …

Duncan CookGloucestershire Jean Bryan The driver was caught on a doorbell camera Police are investigating reports of parcels being taken away from doorsteps. The investigation follows footage being shared on social media by residents in the Kingsway area of Gloucester. Jean Bryan posted doorbell footage of a courier taking a …

Wales have brought forward their team announcement to Wednesday and Wainwright will be available along with fellow back-row forward Alex Mann, who went off in the closing stages last weekend and then passed a head injury assessment. The fixture will stretch Wales’ depth, but attack coach Matt Sherratt is relishing …

Russia and Ukraine have conducted overnight drone strikes against each other, killing at least five people. Officials in Kyiv said a “massive” overnight Russian drone strike on the city had killed at least two people and injured six more. The attack in the early hours of Tuesday also hit at …

Nottinghamshire Police said the dance caught on CCTV footage was a “cynical attempt” to distract the victim Police are investigating after CCTV footage appeared to show a man using a “bizarre” dance routine during a distraction theft. Nottinghamshire Police believe a pickpocket pretended to be drunk in order to trick …

A man accused of murdering a woman in August has been charged with murdering a second woman found dead five months earlier, police have said. Simon Levy, 40, who is due to appear in court for the murder of Sheryl Wilkins, in Tottenham, in north London has now been charged …

Duncan LeatherdaleNorth East and Cumbria NEROCU Giacomo Nikolov, Jela Jovanovic and Charlie Jovanovic admitted their involvement Members of an Italian family of burglars who stole more than £1.2m worth of goods, including from former Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been ordered to pay back £1 each. Brothers Valentino and …

Elaine MitchellBBC News NI south west reporter BBC Siobhan Mullen’s grandfather and Leo Flanagan’s father, Charlie, died in the incident A memorial to five men killed by a train in Omagh, County Tyrone, has been upgraded ahead of the 75th anniversary of their deaths. The railway workers died after being …

Jonny ManningNorth East and Cumbria BBC Police said a cordon would be in place around the scene for some time Eight people have been arrested after an attack which left two people in their 60s with serious injuries. Police were called to a property on Durham Street in Elswick, Newcastle, …

Women in public life get “much more abuse and criticism than men”, Sir Keir Starmer has said after Rachel Reeves claimed she was a victim of mansplaining. Ms Reeves, who is the UK’s first female chancellor, suggested in a recent interview with The Times that some criticism towards her is …

The G20 summit in South Africa, a gathering of the world’s major economies, has ended with a joint declaration committing to “multilateral co-operation”. The declaration, which covered climate change mitigation and economic inequality, was adopted despite objections from the US, which boycotted the meeting in Johannesburg. Speaking at the closing …

A panel of judges in North Dakota’s state Supreme Court has upheld a law that makes it a felony crime to perform an abortion in the state. The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling which temporarily blocked the new law. The ruling on Friday came after three of the court’s …

Linfield Football Club has terminated a sponsorship deal following a backlash over the involvement of a convicted sex offender. The Irish Premiership champions announced earlier this week it was “delighted” that Mooney’s Master Butchers on the Shankill Road had partnered with it for the 2025/26 season, and shared a picture …