Former nurse found guilty of murdering seven infants files bid to challenge her conviction Lucy Letby, Britain’s worst child serial killer, has formally lodged a bid to challenge her convictions at the court of appeal, officials have confirmed. Court staff said on Friday they had received an application for permission […]
Only emergency workers to be allowed into devastated area over fears of contamination from dead bodies in limited water supply Libyan authorities have largely sealed off the flood-devastated port town of Derna from civilians in an effort to give space to emergency aid workers and amid concern that contamination of […]
Ellis, one of 18 Trump associates charged in Georgia election subversion case, says she ‘simply can’t support him’ again Jenna Ellis – the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 – says she will […]
Police arrest 30-year-old after Price attacked by dogs believed to be XL bullies A 52-year-old man who died after being attacked by two dogs believed to be American XL bullies near a school in Staffordshire has been named. Ian Price was mauled to death by the two animals in the […]
Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene variants may be told of higher cancer risk without accounting for family history Women are being unnecessarily alarmed about their risk of breast cancer by consumer genetic test results that do not take family history into account, researchers have said. Women who discover outside […]
Electric chopsticks and ‘jamais vu’ studies also scoop awards recognising research that makes people ‘laugh, then think’ From using dead spiders to grip objects to probing the weird feeling that occurs when the same word is written over and over again, researchers investigating some of the quirkiest conundrums in science […]
Labour leader accused of pandering to anti-migrant sentiments by those on the left while Tories seize on proposal for deal with EU Keir Starmer was under attack from left and right on Thursday after he set out plans to stop small boat Channel crossings in Labour’s first big intervention on […]
Attorney general asked to investigate amid allegations warnings ignored about dangerous state of two dams Libya’s attorney general has been asked by senior politicians to launch an urgent inquiry into the catastrophic floods that have killed tens of thousands of people, including into allegations local officials imposed a curfew on […]
Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik charged after Sara, 10, found dead at her Surrey home in August The father, stepmother and uncle of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have been charged with murder after police found her body at their Surrey home in August. Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, 41, her […]
Apology and ‘substantial’ payouts to Patsy Stevenson and Dania al-Obeid mark major climbdown after years of legal battles Arrested at a vigil: how Patsy Stevenson’s life changed for ever Scotland Yard has apologised and paid “substantial damages” to two women arrested during the vigil for Sarah Everard, in a major […]