9 h. ago Former Lebanese minister ordered released on $100,000 bail amid financial crime allegations

Officials say Lebanon's judicial authorities have ordered the release of a former economy minister on $100,000 bail after months of detention over alleged financial crimes

Politics

4 d. ago Jeffrey Epstein photos: Nearly 100 images released including weird selfies and home pics

The House Oversight Committee in Washington have decided to make more than 70 new Jeffrey Epstein photos available to the public after Democrats released 19 images today

Culture

4 d. ago House Democrats release Epstein photos with Trump, Bannon, Clinton and others

Notable figures in the batch of images include Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Woody Allen and Bill GatesHouse Democrats published a new tranche of what they called “disturbing” photographs from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, featuring among others Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the British former royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.The 19 photographs, some of which have been seen before, represent a small number of the almost 100,000 images released to the House oversight committee that is looking into the actions and connections of Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by apparent suicide in a New York jail cell in 2019 after he was charged with sex-trafficking offenses. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Andrew pictured with Bill Gates in latest Jeffrey Epstein email dump

The new photo was one of a series of nearly 100,000 released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, with others showing Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton

Politics

4 d. ago Nationwide fined £44 million by watchdog after missing Covid fraud ‘red flags’

The building society had inadequate anti-financial crime systems and controls between October 2016 and July 2021, according to the FCA.

Economics

4 d. ago Nationwide fined £44mn over ‘failings’ in financial crime controls

UK regulator says building society lacked effective systems in monitoring customers’ transactions

Economics

8 d. ago 100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released; more still being held

The Christian Association of Nigeria says 100 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school last month have been released

Politics

9 d. ago Nigerian state secures release of 100 out of 265 kidnapped schoolchildren

Gunmen abducted 315 pupils and staff last month from St Mary’s school in Niger state as part of spate of kidnappingsNigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained unclear.In November 315 students and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014 Boko Haram abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Judge sets bail for Indiana man accused of killing house cleaner, sets trial for March

A judge has set bail at $25,000 for an Indiana man accused of killing a house cleaner who mistakenly came to his home

Events

4 w. ago FTSE 100 falters ahead of inflation print and Nvidia earnings release

The FTSE 100 index closed down 22.94 points, 0.2%, at 9,675.43.

Economics