Helen Burchell BBC News Essex Border Force The cocaine haul was one of the largest of the past decade Cocaine with a street value of almost £100m has been seized by Border Force officers in “one of the largest drugs busts of the past decade”. The shipment was intercepted earlier this month on a container...
Seven men from California have been charged in the “largest jewellery heist in US history”, involving the theft of $100m (£75m) worth of gold, gems, and luxury watches. The heist has been a mystery in California for nearly three years after a Brinks company truck transporting the jewellery was robbed at a remote stop as...
BBC The Little Drop of Poison pub on Fore Street serves as the festival’s HQ The South West’s largest comedy festival has returned for its second year -promising to be twice as big as the first. The Exeter Comedy Festival, which features more than 60 shows in 15 venues across four days, is taking place...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. The Yurok people have lived, fished, and hunted along the...
Israeli ministers said the expansion is aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state. Israeli officials have announced a plan to advance settler colonialism in the occupied West Bank by establishing 22 new settlements, in open defiance of international law. Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who have previously pushed for...
US President Donald Trump has said he is “not happy” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, following Moscow’s largest aerial attack yet on Ukraine. In a rare rebuke, Trump said: “What the hell happened to him? He’s killing a lot of people.” He later called Putin “absolutely crazy”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said Washington’s...
London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and… Bristol? Despite being the eighth-biggest city in England, Bristol has never hosted Premier League football – but that could be about to change. After reaching the Championship play-offs, a two-legged semi-final against Sheffield United and a possible final against Coventry or Sunderland at Wembley is all that stands between...
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Madison, a 12-year-old from Illinois, visits a medical clinic every other week to get injections of Xolair, a powerful asthma and allergy medication. The drug helps protect her from severe asthma attacks...
California’s economy has overtaken that of the country of Japan, making the US state the fourth largest global economic force. Governor Gavin Newsom touted new data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis showing California’s growth. The data shows California’s gross domestic product (GDP) hit $4.10 trillion (£3.08 trillion)...
PA Media Foiled again? Not quite – the wrapping has been recreated in paint, although everything else is real-deal chocolate Chocolatiers have unveiled what they say is the world’s largest Cadbury Creme Egg. Funny foodstuffs had seemed to reach their zenith as recently as Friday, when the King had a blow on a carrot whistle....
The UK’s “largest queer festival” is coming to North Devon, organisers have said. The Out & Wild Festival, billed as the UK’s largest festival celebrating the lesbian, bi, trans, and queer women and non-binary people community, is set to take place in June near Bideford. Organisers said the event, which started during the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Rushdi Aboualouf Gaza correspondent AFP Hundreds of people took to the streets of Beit Lahia, with many chanting anti-Hamas slogans Hundreds of people have taken part in the largest anti-Hamas protest in Gaza since the war with Israel began, taking to the streets to demand the group step down from power. Masked Hamas militants, some...