Trump top spy pick faces fresh scrutiny over Syria visit and Russia comments
Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard will face tough questions in US Senate confirmation hearings over her past controversies.
Crypto boss eats banana art he bought for $6m
Justin Sun, 34, gobbled up the pricy piece of fruit at a press conference in Hong Kong on Friday, days after he forked out an eye-watering $6.2 million for the piece.
Man jailed for murdering brother-in-law in shooting spree
Finlay MacDonald, who stabbed his wife then shot three people on and around Skye, was jailed for at least 28 years.
Scots city churchyard rapist jailed for seven years over early hours sex attack
"Wyness will now face the consequences of his despicable actions in prison."
Kneecap win discrimination case against UK Government - 'They have tried to silence us and they have failed'
Speaking after the judgement, Kneecap's DJ Provai said: "They don’t like that we oppose British rule, that we don’t believe that England serves anyone in Ireland"
Key homelessness stats in Ireland reach new high amid General Election
The figures came halfway through voting in the General Election and show the continuation of a near-consistent rise in recent years
Farmer Padraig Nally - who faced trial over shooting of John 'Frog' Ward' - passes away aged 81
Nally's conviction was quashed in 2006 and he was found not guilty of manslaughter in a retrial
Skye shooter found guilty of gun-rampage murder of brother-in-law and attempting to kill three others
Finlay MacDonald faced a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh and had denied the charges.
Hutch gang member James 'Mago' Gately and partner given four months to leave family home
Charlene Lam asked the High Court on Friday to let her and her three children remain in their house
Father-of-four guilty of murdering his brother-in-law
Following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, Finlay MacDonald, 41, was found guilty of repeatedly discharging a shotgun at his brother-in-law John MacKinnon (pic).
Moment police find class A drug dealer hiding in wardrobe
On October 2 2024 officers rushed to a house in Folkestone, Kent, and found Tallanius Bridgland, 29, skulking in a walk-in wardrobe packed with clothes.
Inside the three-bed bungalow where a 'rogue' landlord housed 15 people in tiny rooms and 'put lives at risk'
The property was divided into 15 rooms - some as small as 3.48 square metres - with a small kitchen and just two bathrooms
Sex pest who sexually assaulted female train passenger is SPARED jail
Hamada Salah, 28, who is seeking asylum in the UK, targeted two lone women in separate incidents on a TransPennine Express journey from Leeds to Middlesbrough in February.
Former IRA 'dirty protester' says Bobby Sands could have been saved
Bobby Sands was one of ten who went on hunger strike over the government's refusal to grant Republican inmates 'special category status'.
MI6 warns world'more dangerous than it has been in four decades'
Sir Richard More warned that Britain and its allies are facing a 'reckoning' as a new generation of potential terrorists are radicalised over the war currently erupting in the Middle East.
First pic of mum killed in e-bike hit-and-run as police probe fatal crash
"This is an understandably shocking incident that has left a family grieving the loss of a young woman."
Man guilty of murdering brother-in-law and shooting two other people in shotgun rampage on Isle of Skye
A man has been found guilty of murdering his brother-in-law and attempting to kill three other people during a shotgun rampage on the Isle of Skye and the Scottish mainland.
'Friends say part of Padraig Nally died 20 years ago - that terrible afternoon shattered his serenity'
'Peace of mind, once stolen, is notoriously difficult to rediscover'
Police hunt Scots driver after three hit-and-run incidents in less than half an hour
Road policing officers responded to reports that the same driver was involved in three crashes in just 25 minutes in Forth Valley.
Cop bought booze for underage worker and turned blind eye to weed
The former Nottinghamshire Police officer was told he would have been fired if he was still employed by the force
Namakkal man falls for age-old money-doubling trick in Madurai
Tamil Nadu man loses ₹3 lakh in money-doubling scam, police arrest five suspects and recover stolen money.
Germany 'will tell migrants they must adopt local cultural values'
Germany's centre-right Christian Democrats Union political party has been promoting the importance of making migrants in Germany adapt culturally
Friday court round-up — Nightmare Xmas Eve and Baynes bun fight
A round-up of court cases from Tayside and Fife.
Driver mounted pavement and mowed down student following fight outside Rock City
Mohammed Alam then left his victim for dead and sped off through a red light
Thug who killed church leader gran after befriending her is jailed
Nelly Akomah, 76, was found with fatal injuries and a black eye at the bottom of the stairs in her house on Ladbrook Road in Thornton Heath, south London , on June of last year.
'Remorseless' girl, 13, stabs her adoptive mum with knife then 'cries with joy'
The girl was aged just 12 when she plunged a kitchen knife into her mum's arm at the family home in Wimbledon, south-west London, before going on to attack a care worker
Man faces jail for tearing roof off neighbours' home
Mark Coates, 57, smashed a hole through the roof of his semi-detached home before climbing out.
Businessman put face of ex's teen daughter on photos of partially naked bodies: 'I've made mistakes'
The father of two admitted creating child pornographic images - the victim said she felt physically ill but 'most of all so angry'
Young Muslims in Scotland disillusioned by politics but politicized in other ways
Young Muslims are less interested in national politics in Scotland and instead are increasingly involved with local and global issues, research led by Newcastle University shows.
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