A person who intervened during an assault on a police officer has been thanked for their assistance. Torquay Police said on Facebook a patrol officer was attacked by a man outside the town’s station on Saturday morning. The team said a member of the public came to help the officer and helped stop the assault...
Lucy Manning & James Bryant BBC News Anjorin family Daniel Anjorin was 14 when he was killed on his way to school A paramedic who went to treat schoolboy Daniel Anjorin, who was killed in a sword attack in north-east London, has spoken of her fear when the defendant allegedly turned on the ambulance. Marcus...
United Nations trucks carrying aid for the war-torn Sudanese region of North Darfur have been attacked, with initial reports of “multiple casualties”, a spokesperson for the organisation has said. The Sudanese government said “guards, drivers and civilians” had been killed in the assault, which it blamed on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group...
Image Credit: Bettmann/Getty (R) We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.” “During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities...
A former assistant of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a New York court that he repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was employed by him for eight years. The witness – who testified anonymously under the pseudonym “Mia” – also tearfully said she lived in fear of violent rages from Mr Combs as...
A young man was attacked by four adults with weapons in part of a “wider, large-scale disorder” at seaside town beach, police have said. Officers were called to Back Beach in Teignmouth at about 20:45 BST on Friday, where 50 to 100 teenagers and adults were present. Devon and Cornwall Police said it was trying...
Activists who were planning to sail an aid ship to Gaza say it was attacked by drones in international waters off the Maltese coast in the early hours of Friday. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said its ship The Conscience was targeted at 00:23 local time (22:23 GMT) and issued an SOS distress signal right after...
Catriona MacPhee BBC Disclosure Gavin Hopkins Liz Shanks is calling for changes to the law Warning: This article contains details readers may find upsetting Liz Shanks installed cameras around her home to protect her prized collection of classic cars – but instead, they captured the escalating and violent domestic abuse carried out by her former...