Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat BBC News Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Top secret intelligence files uncovered by the BBC confirm for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of the now-deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Former Syrian officials have also confirmed Mr Tice’s detention...
Meghan Owen Work & Money Correspondent, BBC London BBC Shanice Aird, 29, will soon be homeless after rejecting a flat an hour away from her children’s school “I spent all of half-term looking for somewhere to live,” says mother-of-three Shanice Aird. The 29-year-old from west London rejected her council’s most recent temporary accommodation offer “an...
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...
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 search is under way for a girl who is missing in the River Thames in Kent, police have said. Officers were called by the Port of London Authority (PLA) at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns for for the welfare of two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road, Gravesend. Emergency...
The Iranian Embassy in India has said it is investigating the case of three Indian nationals who went missing in Tehran earlier this month. The men, all of whom are from the northern state of Punjab, had a stopover in Iran on 1 May, and were on their way to Australia, where they were promised...
Police Scotland Missing teenager Cole Cooper was last seen in Banknock on 7 May. Police are becoming “increasingly concerned” for a teenager who has been missing for three weeks. Cole Cooper, 19, was last seen at about 20:45 on 7 May in Longcroft, Falkirk, near his home village of Banknock. Ch Insp Alex Hatrick told...
An Garda SÃochána Fiona Pender, 25, was seven months pregnant when she disappeared The disappearance of a pregnant Irish woman almost three decades ago has been upgraded to a murder inquiry. A new search is under way to try to find the remains of Fiona Pender, 25, who went missing in County Offaly. She was...
More than a few times during the season, Maynard lamented that his side did not get the results that performances warranted. No game left the former telecommunications engineer more exasperated than their 1-0 play-off first-leg defeat by AFC Wimbledon. Conor Grant had a late goalbound effort cleared by Josh Neufville, having been repeatedly denied by...
“Melania” appeared on the banks of the River Sava in July 2020, four months before her human inspiration left the White House. Now, four months after the erstwhile Melanija Knavs resumed residence at Washington’s most famous address, her larger-than-life-size avatar has apparently made an undignified exit from her Slovenian hometown, Sevnica. All that remains of...
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book on the Biden administration, Original Sin, is out this week, and with it, media falling all over themselves to excuse away their culpability in minimizing what 80% of the country, reflected in polling, saw in Joe Biden – He was too old and infirm to serve another four years...
Dutch club Fortuna Sittard’s dreams of playing European football next season have been dashed because of missing paperwork. Fortuna sit ninth in the Eredevisie with two games left – a position that would earn them a play-off place for a spot in the Uefa Conference League. However, the club do not have the required Uefa...
The sister of a man who went missing nearly 22 years ago has resumed her mother’s hunt for answers after she died last year. Neil Nortrop, from Devon, was 32 when he disappeared from London on 10 June 2003. He had left his mother’s house in Brixham and travelled to Greenwich and Dartford to visit...
Sinner had previously been cleared of any wrongdoing by an independent panel after testing positive for the banned substance clostebol in March 2024. Wada lodged an appeal against that decision with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, saying at the time it was seeking a “period of ineligibility of between one and two years.” Wada...
A woman missing for nearly 63 years has been found alive and well after the case into her disappearance was reviewed, police in the US state of Wisconsin said. Audrey Backeberg was 20 years old when she disappeared from her home in the small city of Reedsburg on 7 July 1962. In a statement, Sauk...