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The Court of Appeal in Paris on Wednesday sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison, including two years of probation, for corruption and influence peddling in the wiretapping scandal. Sarkozy will not be serving his sentence in prison, but at home under the supervision of an electronic bracelet.more

Germany is considered a haven for money laundering in Europe. The lack of a limit on cash transactions is responsible for this, which criminals are eager to exploit, stresses Florian Koebler, chairman of the German tax union DSTG.more

British men are taking payments of thousands of pounds to pose as fathers for migrant women's babies, a BBC investigation has found. more

On the eve of a summit of Council of Europe heads of state and government in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for concerted action to curb illegal immigration.more

There has been a significant increase in the number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria over the last decade, with more than half of teenagers in England knowing someone of their age who wants to change gender, the Daily Telegraph reported.more

Labour is considering extending voting rights to some EU citizens living in the UK if the party wins the next general election. more

The Tory government's controversial mega-barge set to house hundreds of asylum seekers arrived in British waters today. more

Spain's supreme court has upheld the 135-year prison sentence handed to a British teacher and nanny who created and distributed pornography featuring children in his care after changing his name following previous convictions.more

In the village of Barlasina near Monza, pensioner Claudio Trenta had been asking the authorities for several months to patch a pothole in the road adjacent to his house. He finally repaired the road himself. He was fined €882 and ordered to restore a section of the road to its original state, writes the Corriere della Sera.more

For the second time in a matter of days, investigators took aim at the yacht 'Luna' of a Russian oligarch. According to the Spiegel weekly portal, they confiscated works of art worth several million euros. The yacht allegedly once belonged to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the weekly magazine reveals.more

Londoners may be offered the chance to have their voices heard on the Ultra Low Emission (ULEZ) expansion in a vote. The Brexit-style vote would see all residents in the currently non-ULEZ areas of Greater London given a say before the zone expands.more

The British government wants to limit the ability of foreign students to bring in their family members, which is one of the causes of record immigration, the Financial Times reported. This is especially true of students from India and Nigeria.more

The government has ditched its plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year. The plan - dubbed a post-Brexit bonfire - would see laws that were copied over to the UK after Brexit vanish, unless specifically kept or replaced.more

The government's illegal immigration bill is "morally unacceptable and politically impractical," Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told the House of Lords, adding that it was damaging Britain's reputation.more

The Constitutional Court of Spain has ruled that the abortion law in force in this country since 2010 is constitutional. In the justification, he stated that a woman can have an abortion if she is not "forced" to do so.more

A 23-year-old UK citizen accused of hacking Twitter accounts and other cyber crimes faces 77 years in prison; he hacked into the accounts of US presidents and other celebrities, high-tech website The Record reported yesterday.more

New artificial intelligence cameras are set to be installed on motorways to catch litter louts red-handed. more

Michael Gove is poised to unveil the biggest shake-up of the private rented sector in a generation — but reports are emerging that the legislation has been delayed due to ‘procedural issues’.more

The British government will soon recognise the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company that plays a major role in the war in Ukraine, as a terrorist organisation, 'The Times' reported today.more

President Biden's administration intends to change the immigration law from that in place during the Covid-19 pandemic to one referring to the earlier one. This is to curb undocumented border crossings and encourage legal efforts to come to the US.more

Portugal's Constitutional Court has ruled that prostitution does not have to be a criminal offence if the person committing it 'acts in accordance with free will'. According to the media, this ruling paves the way for the legalisation of earning money from unchastity.more

A jury in New York yesterday found Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing and defaming the now 79-year-old American writer E. Jean Carroll in a civil trial. It awarded her damages of $5 million.more

Labour is considering moves to levy higher taxes on foreign buyers of UK homes, as a senior Conservative blamed their party’s abolition of housebuilding targets for woeful results in last week’s local elections.more

Police Scotland is planning to introduce a new clean-shaven policy for frontline officers, according to correspondence seen by the BBC. It means hundreds of officers will have to shave off their beards and moustaches by the end of the month.more

The Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women and girls, if not lifted, could lead to mass femicide, a UN panel of experts has warned.more