The mystery surrounding the death of a Scot whose body was found in a suitcase in Greece has deepened after officers confirmed the outside of the bag was clear of DNA and fingerprints.
Elisabeth Jane Ross, from Edinburgh, was found inside a suitcase in a derelict building in Athens on July 18, having travelled to Greece three weeks earlier.
Train operators across Britain have spent more than £13million on hiring taxis for staff because of rail disruptions – including when an alternative rail service was 'too cold'.
Over 395,000 taxi bookings – funded by ticket fares and the Department for Transport – were made by staff by train operators since January 2025, figures gathered from freedom of information requests have revealed.
Two Australian women have been charged after disturbing footage captured an alleged racial attack against three male Chinese students.
The 26-year-old and 33-year-old women were involved in an alleged altercation with the trio at Central Station, in Sydney, in the early hours of the morning on July 25.
It's like a scene from one of those hard-bitten American crime movies of the 1930s. The police and a key prosecution witness are discussing problems with their evidence in a fast-approaching trial.
It turns out that the facts in the case have changed, rather awkwardly. It is a glum scene. And the cops say to the witness: ‘Yeah, we can’t change the data.’ And then they say: ‘But we can change the interpretation of it.’
Foreign Office mandarins serving in Bali, the Maldives and Abu Dhabi get extra holidays and bonus pay for 'hardship', The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Under generous taxpayer-funded deals, staff get 'breathers' for taking up 'hardship posts'. These are supposed to be in places where there are security threats, high levels of crime or air pollution.
An American private equity billionaire is trucking up to 13,000 gallons of water daily to his country estate in Wiltshire – despite a ban on tankers filling up from nearby mains.
Blackstone boss Stephen Schwarzman, 79, who is one of Wall Street's most powerful financiers, has infuriated neighbours of Conholt Park, near Andover, who face hosepipe bans following the warmest spring on record and a drought.
Doing his best to keep cool in the sweltering heat of the capital, Peter Mandelson was spotted taking a dip in the men's pond at Hampstead Heath.
The disgraced former Labour peer, 72, had booked a £5 one-hour swimming session – but was seen deep in conversation with an attendant about annual membership.
It was just a year ago that Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry enjoyed a holiday together with their daughter just weeks after they announced their split.
The pair, along with Daisy Dove, five, and Bloom's 15-year-old son Flynn from his marriage to model Miranda Kerr, went on a sun-soaked trip to Italy as a blended family.
Many people across Europe will be able to witness their first solar eclipse this month in nearly three decades.
The UK will be plunged into brief darkness during the rare celestial event on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 12, as the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun.
British workers will be poorer by an average £2,500 a year by 2031 because of the ~ impact of immigration driving down salaries, a new analysis has concluded.
According to calculations made by the Conservatives -using figures provided by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Bank of England - immigration will cost UK staff a total of £89.8 billion in suppressed wages over the next five years, with the average worker £2,521 a year worse off.
A young man in a basketball vest staggers from the sea and collapses at the feet of a Spanish soldier, next to the prone body of another exhausted soul who had been equally desperate to make it to European soil.
First light had just broken over Ceuta's Playa El Tarajal and, until now, all had been quiet, save for the gentle hiss of lapping waves. Nobody was expecting any more migrants. It turns out Sid Ahmed Dib, 23, from the Algerian port city of Skikda, and his unknown companion, were the last.
Just like ordinary Brits, the rich and famous are facing a battle to keep their pristine gardens alive and watered amid a record-breaking summer.
Large swathes of the country have turned from a tapestry of greens to a monotone brown after weeks with no rain and scorching temperatures.
