Jose Carcamo, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, faces charges of aggravated kidnapping after allegedly holding a Chinese woman captive in Houston for five days. The victim, lured from New York with promises of a better job, was reportedly subjected to repeated assaults, denied food and water, and confined to a trailer.
The former foreign secretary will become shadow housing secretary, the BBC understands.
Jurors find Howard Phillips wanted to pass on details about ex-defence secretary Sir Grant Shapps.
Bangladesh is probing embezzlement tied to former regime families. The UK's NCA froze millions in assets, including those of Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and the Rahman family.
The monthly cost of renting rose just as fast as mortgage increases over the last three years, figures show.
The British and Irish Lions survive a huge scare in Melbourne but preserve their winning run in Australia with a hard-fought 24-19 win over First Nations and Pasifika XV.
Iran faces its hottest week with temperatures above 50°C as authorities urged water conservation and declared emergency holidays.
The dam project along the Yarlung Zangbo river, which becomes the Brahmaputra in India and Bangladesh, has stirred concerns as the river is a lifeline for millions downstream
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Kyiv and Moscow will hold a third round of peace talks on July 23The talks will be held in Istanbul, a Turkish government spokesperson said, as previous negotiations failed to make a ...more
Senedd politician Laura Anne Jones has defected from the Tories to Reform, Nigel Farage announces.
Maria Farmer, the first to report Jeffrey Epstein, claimed she alerted law enforcement about Donald Trump in 1996 and 2006.
Households are trading down or making simpler meals to save money on groceries, research shows.
In Deir al-Balah, Israeli forces have intensified operations with heavy airstrikes and a ground incursion that killed at least 18 Palestinians at a flour distribution site, including aid police, amid a broader assault that has displaced ...more
I ask that the free and independent press be allowed to access Gaza to show what is happening there and to bear witness, says French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot
Megan Kerrigan, wife of Andy Byron, is at her family's Maine mansion after a kiss-cam exposed ex-Astronomer CEO's affair.
Gita Gopinath, an Indian-American economist, is the first woman to serve as the First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF. She was also a tenured professor at Harvard.
More than 1,000 people have gathered outside the Epping hotel in separate protests in the past week.
Kulsuma Akter had been living in a refuge in Bradford when she was fatally stabbed by Habibur Masum.
A new photograph of Prince George to mark his 12th birthday has been issued by Kensington Palace.
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