A man has been found guilty of murdering a Saudi Arabian student in an unprovoked attack in Cambridge. Chas Corrigan, 22, knifed Mohammed Algasim, 20, outside student accommodation near the city’s train station late on 1 August, last year. Mr Algasim, who had never met Corrigan before, was stabbed in the neck in an “unprovoked […]
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Police investigations into the Epstein files send the “right message” that “no one is above the law”, the Metropolitan Police commissioner has told Sky News. In a wide-ranging interview about violence against women and girls (VAWG) marking five years since the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer, Sir Mark Rowley said “it helps
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Winter was the wettest on record for parts of the UK, according to provisional figures from the Met Office. Cornwall, Leicestershire and the West Midlands experienced their wettest winter since comparable records started in 1836. Dorset and Warwickshire had their second wettest winter, while southern England experienced its fourth wettest. The period saw the UK
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A man has denied criminal damage after a statue of former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill was defaced with graffiti. Words including “Zionist war criminal”, “Stop the Genocide” and “Free Palestine” were sprayed in red paint on the bronze sculpture in Parliament Square in Westminster. Further slogans such as “Never again is Now” and “Globalise
A man has been arrested after a knife incident in Edinburgh which left two people requiring hospital treatment. Armed police locked down the Calder Gardens area of the Scottish capital following reports of a man with a bladed weapon at about 8.25am on Monday. Armed police outside Cobbinshaw House tower block. Pic: PA Image: Armed
The first American flag-draped coffin to arrive home will land with greater force than any Iranian missile. For President Donald Trump, the loss of US military personnel redraws the political battlefield at home. Trump has long cast himself as a president who understands the cost of war in human terms. He mocked “forever wars” and
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Sinners triumphed at this year’s Actor Awards, with the vampire horror winning best ensemble and best actor for Michael B Jordan. The awards show, which has rebranded after formerly being known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards, is seen as a decent bellwether to the Oscars, which take place next month. While Paul Thomas Anderson’s
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The RAF base Akrotiri in Cyprus has been hit by a one-way attack drone, amid a fresh conflict in the Middle East that started on Saturday. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told Sky News’ Mornings With Ridge and Frost the strike hit the airport’s runway and said “all of the precautionary measures are being taken around
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It is an image that will haunt very many people across Israel. A corner of Beit Shemesh, flattened by an Iranian missile; a synagogue destroyed; people killed while they sought refuge in a bomb shelter. If you wanted proof that war, even this war, is not just about aerial defences and surgical strikes, this was
A formal declaration of war has not been made but it looks and sounds like war in central Tehran. Clouds of smoke and the crack of high explosives rupture the air as the Americans and the Israelis bring their operation to the heart of the capital city. And if the elimination of the senior Iranian