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A man has been arrested over the alleged murder of a missing British woman in Florida, investigators in the US have said. The unnamed woman’s body was found in the town of Marion Oaks in central Florida last month. Analysis of the remains confirmed her identity and that she had …

Police Scotland Stuart McGeachie was attacked near a pub in Rutherglen Two men who murdered a man with a machete in a revenge attack have each been jailed for a minimum of 18 years. Callum Summers, 29, and Craig McColl, 24, teamed up to target Stuart McGeachie near a pub …

Ireland’s Andy McBrine took all four Bangladesh wickets to fall on day one of the second Test but it was the hosts who dominated in Mirpur. Mushfiqur Rahim ended 99 not out, with Litton Kumer Das, the other unbeaten batter on 47 as Bangladesh closed on 292-4. After the home …

A British woman is among five people who have died in a snowstorm in Chilean Patagonia. Victoria Bond, from Cornwall, was named by officials in Chile as among those killed in the tourist hotspot of Torres del Paine National Park, in the south of the country. Along with Ms Bond, …

Spindrift Andrew Polson currently sits as an independent for Bearsden South A former council leader who carried out a £188,000 romance fraud has been jailed for 22 months. Andrew Polson, 53, persuaded former partner Ann Kelly, 72, to give him money to buy property which would then be sold on …

Worcestershire have re-signed Australia pace bowler Ben Dwarshuis for the entirety of next summer’s T20 Blast. The left-armer was the leading wicket-taker for the Rapids in the 2025 competition with 18 victims in 13 matches – and he also contributed 226 runs. It was his second spell with the club, …

Surrey Police William Smith and his son Joseph Smith conned £86,000 from elderly and vulnerable people A builder who conned £86,000 from elderly and vulnerable people has been described as “absolute scum” by one of his victims. William Smith scammed unsuspecting residents in Surrey and Sussex by overcharging them for …

Dave GilyeatSouth of England Google The offenders left the vehicle in the Five Mile Drive area of Oxford Four arrests have been made after a group of masked men entered a vehicle and stole phones, a watch worth about £450,000 and cryptocurrency valued at about £1.1m. Two men and three …

A thirsty burglar who stole a fizzy drink from the fridge of the home he was raiding has been jailed after the can provided forensic evidence. Daniel Irvin smashed windows and ransacked two homes on Stonegate in Thorne, Doncaster, stealing items including jewellery, watches, a TV and a tablet device …

A man who carried out two attacks with a machete in Inverness has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years at the High Court in Edinburgh. Malcolm Macleod, 31, admitted attempting to murder Jay Williamson at Gilbert Street on 15 January last year. He repeatedly hit his victim on the head and …

Police Scotland Iain Kennedy, 32, died from his injuries in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow A killer who murdered a man in Lanarkshire after he allegedly made a comment about his mother has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years. Jordan Moore kicked and stamped Iain Kennedy, …

A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death of a man who murdered his lover and their three-year-old son in the Highlands almost 50 years ago. William MacDowell died in February 2023 – less than five months after he was convicted of the deaths of Renee and …

A French energy company is facing war crimes allegations, which it denies, over a massacre near its multi-billon dollar international gas project in northern Mozambique in 2021. In a complaint filed with French prosecutors, a human rights group accused TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes, including the torture and execution …

An off-duty pilot who tried to cut a plane’s engines mid-flight won’t serve any more time in prison, a US federal judge has ruled. Joseph Emerson, a former Alaska Airlines pilot, was sentenced to time served and three years’ supervised release by Judge Amy Baggio in the US District Court …

Former Paris St-Germain midfielder Kheira Hamraoui has filed a 3.5m euros (£3.08m) claim against the French club, alleging she was forced out after being attacked with an iron bar. In November 2021 Hamraoui was dragged from a car by two masked men who beat her legs with an iron bar …

A masseur who sexually assaulted five women during treatments at the luxury spa where he worked has been spared jail. Ibrahim Ali, 36, assaulted the women, who had booked in for back and foot massages, at the Nirvana Spa in Sindlesham, Berkshire, in November and December last year. Ali admitted …

Neil HendersonOld Bailey, London Family handout Camron Smith was stabbed to death in front of his mother in her bedroom A man has been jailed for 13 years for killing a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in front of his mother in her bedroom. Romario Gordon, 22, was …

A British man who hacked the X accounts of celebrities in a bid to con people out of Bitcoin, has been ordered to repay £4.1m-worth of the cryptocurrency, prosecutors say. Joseph James O’Connor, 26, was jailed in the United States for five years in 2023 after he pleaded guilty to …

Rescuers are searching for survivors after a bridge collapsed at a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 32 people. Unauthorised miners forced their way into the southern Kalando mine on Saturday despite being banned from the site, said local official Roy Kaumba Mayonde. Military personnel …

Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed after the bus they were travelling in caught fire in an accident near Medina in Saudi Arabia, the police commissioner of India’s Hyderabad city has said. The bus had 46 passengers, said VC Sajjanar in a press conference, adding that one man who survived …