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A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the felling of one of the UK's most celebrated trees. The landmark at Sycamore Gap, beside Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, was cut down overnight.more

The murder of a 15-year-old girl in London, who was stabbed on her way to school, has again drawn attention to the problem of rising violence among British teenagers. Since the beginning of the year, 15 teenagers have been murdered in London alone, which is more than in all of last year.more

Three people died in the shootings that took place yesterday in Rotterdam, the Netherlands: a 46-year-old man, a 39-year-old woman and her 14-year-old daughter, said local police chief Fred Westerbeke.more

Almost 400 skulls of protected primate species have been confiscated in seven months; a sign of the growth of the lucrative trade in this commodity, said French customs, as cited by France24.more

Spanish police officers have broken up a large-scale international drug trafficking group. By this afternoon, 197 members of the gang, including Polish nationals, had been arrested.more

The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) has been the victim of a cyber attack, said the tribunal's spokesman. The NOS website revealed that hackers managed to intercept a large number of confidential documents.more

Five Bulgarian citizens who were detained in Great Britain on suspicion of spying for Russia have been formally charged and will appear in court next Tuesday, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced today.more

One-and-a-half-year-old boy Nicholas Dominici is suspected to have died as a result of a drug overdose. The New York nursery he attended for a week held fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin, under sleeping mats, local police reported.more

The trial of the father, step-mother and uncle of Sarah Sh., the 10-year-old Polish-Pakistani girl who has been charged with her murder, will begin on 2 September next year and last for six weeks, a London court was told yesterday.more

The case of allegations of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse made against well-known English comedian and actor Russell Brand in the UK is growing in seriousness.more

Post Office employees wrongly accused in connection with the faulty software scandal will receive 600 000 pounds each in compensation - the Guardian newspaper reported.more

The 21-year-old Sikh who broke into the grounds of Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021 with a crossbow to assassinate British Queen Elizabeth II has written a letter of apology to King Charles III and the royal family, his lawyer announced yesterday.more

On the day a former British army soldier accused of terrorism escaped from London's HMP Wandswoth prison, 39 percent of staff were absent from work, the Justice Ministry admitted yesterday.more

The father, step-mother and uncle of Sarah Sh., the 10-year-old Polish-Pakistani girl whose body was found in her home near London in August, have been formally charged with murder, Surrey County Police reported today.more

Federal prosecutors in Delaware yesterday charged US President Hunter Biden's son with three counts of illegal gun possession. Biden junior lied on his gun permit application about his drug use.more

Yesterday, Dutch police detained approximately 300 protesters blocking the A12 motorway in The Hague for the fifth day in a row - informs the police headquarters in this city. Representatives of the prosecutor's office, police and city authorities met at the city hall to consider how to put an end to the troublesome protests of climate activists who have been paralyzing one of the most important amore

In Uppsala, in southern Sweden, there have been four shootings in the last week, killing two people. According to the police, the wave of violence is caused by the conflict surrounding the leader of a gang called the Kurdish Fox, who is in Turkey.more

The father, half-mother and uncle of Sara Sh., a 10-year-old Polish-Pakistani girl killed near London in August, were arrested last night after returning from Pakistan to the UK on suspicion of murder, British police said.more

An elite cyclist said he spent almost £6,000 to track down four stolen bikes in Poland after police in the UK failed to intervene. Damian Groves, 34, had four professional bicycles worth £36,000 stolen on 25 June in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.more

The referee of Sunday's European Championships football qualifying match between Albania and Poland (2:0) Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez has been investigated for possible involvement in corruption. A total of four soccer referees from Spain have been reported in the case.more

A 24-year-old woman was hit by a stray Kalashnikov bullet in her apartment in Marseille during a street clash between drug trafficking gangs.more

An accused terrorist former British army soldier who escaped from a London prison on Wednesday and was caught three days later, stood trial today on escape charges.more

The search for escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife has entered a fourth day, with police racing to investigate the first confirmed sighting of him. The ex-soldier was spotted by a member of the public on Wednesday morning, shortly after he left HMP Wandsworth by hiding underneath a delivery truck.more

Despite the manhunt lasting for the second day, no traces of the former British army soldier accused of terrorism, who escaped from prison in London the day before yesterday, were still found - the police admitted late afternoon.more

The British government announced sanctions on 11 members of a Russian hacking group found to be responsible for a number of ransomware attacks, including those targeting hospitals and other critical infrastructure during the Covid-19 pandemic.more