A Metropolitan Police officer who worked at Charing Cross police station has been sacked after he was secretly filmed “boasting about and revelling in the use of force” on a detainee.

An asylum seeker who was accidentally released from prison where he was serving time for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl has been spotted boarding a London-bound train, Essex Police said.

Keir Starmer urged allies to “finish the job” on frozen Russian assets by using them to strengthen Ukraine’s defences as he sought to rally support for Kyiv amid stalled peace efforts.

The Sun first reported on Friday that he was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre to be deported but was freed by mistake.

National security adviser Jonathan Powell said Counter Terror Police and the Crown Prosecution Service were aware of the change.

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged to accelerate Japan’s military build-up and spending and complete an early ...

The trial of a civil claim against the owner of a container ship that collided with a US tanker in the North Sea will not be held before October next year, the High Court has heard.

Sir Keir Starmer met Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of a meeting of leaders at which he will urge allies to increase Ukraine’s supply of long-range weapons to strike back at Russia. The Prime Minister ...

Susan Hardwick, 65, was found by staff forcing pillows on the face of her 89-year-old mother, Joan, at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

The warehouse was targeted because it was being used to supply humanitarian aid and StarLink satellite equipment to Ukraine.

A man has been found guilty of killing his stepdaughter and her husband “in quick succession”, before picking their children up from school. Parents-of-four Josh Bashford, 33, and Chloe Bashford, 30, ...

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