West Midlands Police Reanne Coulson, 34, from Coventry, had been missing since 21 May Officers searching for missing Reanne Coulson have found a body and charged a man with her murder, West Midlands Police have said. She had been missing for a month and failed to contact family on her birthday. The body was discovered...
Getty Images Peter Falconio was killed while travelling around Australia with girlfriend Joanne Lees Police in Australia have announced a new reward of up to A$500,000 (£240,000; $325,000) for information leading to the discovery of the remains of British backpacker Peter Falconio, 24 years after his murder. Mr Falconio was shot dead on a remote...
The IDF have released new footage that they say shows the underground tunnel network underneath the European hospital in southern Gaza. The Israeli army say they’ve found the body of Mohammed Sinwar – the Hamas leader in Gaza – who they said was the target of Israeli airstrikes on 13 May. Following BBC Verify’s previous...
Police Scotland Cole Cooper was last seen alive in the Banknock area in early May The family of teenager Cole Cooper, who was missing for four weeks, have said their “worst fears have become reality” after the discovery of a body. Police notified the 19-year-old’s relatives after the body was found in a wooded area...
IDF The Israeli military released a video in December 2023 that it said showed Mohammed Sinwar being driven through a Hamas underground tunnel The Israeli military has said it has located and identified the body of Mohammed Sinwar, the military leader of Palestinian armed group Hamas in Gaza. His body was discovered in a tunnel...
Israel has retrieved the body of a Thai national taken hostage during the Hamas-led attack in October 2023, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says. He said the body of Nattapong Pinta was retrieved during a special operation in the Rafah area of southern Gaza on Friday. The 35-year-old was working as an agricultural labourer in...
Police Scotland Cole Cooper was last seen in Banknock on 7 May A body has been found in the search for teenager Cole Cooper who has been missing for four weeks. Police said the body of a man was discovered in a wooded area near Kilsyth Road in Banknock, near Falkirk, at about 16:15. Formal...
The new interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has told the BBC she will do “whatever it takes” to reform the embattled legal appeals body. Dame Vera Baird KC said the CCRC seemed “incapable of learning from their mistakes” and she wanted to “root out” the culture causing them. She has has...
A body has been found in the search for a Scottish man reported missing in Portugal. Greg Monks, 38, was reported missing last week after leaving the main strip in Albufeira in the Algarve in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Mr Monks, from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, had travelled to the resort on 27 May...
Family Handout Aziz Ziriat “lived every moment with optimism, good humour and humility”, his family said The family of a London hiker who died on an Italian mountain range have said they are “heartbroken” after his body was discovered on Saturday. Aziz Ziriat, 36, went missing while hiking in the Dolomites with his friend Sam...
The body of a British hiker who went missing in the Dolomites has been found, a search team in Italy said. Aziz Ziriat, 36, was discovered lying in a rocky crevice on Saturday, around 400m (1,300ft) below where the body of his friend, Sam Harris, 35, had previously been found. The pair, who were both...
UK steelmakers said US President Donald Trump’s decision to double import taxes on steel and aluminium to 50% is “yet another body blow” to the industry. Trade group UK Steel warned some orders could be delayed or cancelled, with uncertainty surrounding some shipments which are already halfway across the Atlantic. Trump’s new 50% import tax...
A body has been found in the search for a girl missing in the River Thames in Kent. Police were called at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns were raised for two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road in Gravesend. Emergency services attended the scene, where a boy was retrieved from...
A man has been charged with preventing the lawful burial of a woman after a body was discovered in a Devon flat, police have said. Jamie Stevens, 51, from Reddenhill Road, Torquay, was charged of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body in Torquay between 21 May 2022 and 28 May 2025, said...
Lucy Hooker Business reporter Photo by ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Compensation for sub-postmasters is not being decided by a “kangaroo court”, the body overseeing the payouts has said, pushing back against allegations made by Sir Alan Bates. Sir Alan, who led the campaign for justice, said he had been made a “take it or leave it” offer...