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Knifeman on LNER train ‘caused terror and fear on unimaginable scale’, court hears

Anthony Williams is accused of attempting to murder passengers and staff on board a London-bound train last November

A knifeman “caused terror and fear on an unimaginable scale” to passengers when he stabbed 10 people on a London-bound train, a court has heard.

Anthony Williams, 33, is accused of attempting to murder 10 passengers and staff on an LNER train on 1 November last year and stabbing four people in the 24 hours before.

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© Photograph: British Transport Police/PA

© Photograph: British Transport Police/PA

© Photograph: British Transport Police/PA

Three plead guilty in $9m romance fraud scam targeting elderly Americans

28 October 2026 at 19:57

Twin brothers, 22, from Ghana and a 53-year-old American woman targeted older adults in 25 US states, officials say

Three people have pleaded guilty in a $9m romance fraud scam that targeted elderly Americans.

On Monday, the US attorney’s office in the northern district of Ohio announced that twin brothers from Ghana and an American woman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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© Photograph: US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio

© Photograph: US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio

© Photograph: US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio

US teen whose father arranged her marriage to Islamic State fighter convicted for weapons training

28 October 2026 at 16:36

‘You try to leave, it is death,’ Halima Salman testified. Her mother and defense attorneys wept after the verdict

A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter was convicted on Tuesday of receiving weapons training from the militant group.

Prosecutors said Halima Salman, a US citizen, pledged loyalty to the extremist group and willingly participated in its activities. Jurors were shown a video of her holding an assault rifle, a photo of her with the group’s flag and loving text messages she sent her husband.

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© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

Conservative influencers charged with unlawful voting, disguising themselves in ‘Muslim garb’

28 October 2026 at 21:07

James O’Keefe and Cam Higby were trying to show vulnerabilities in allowing a voter to vouch for another

Two rightwing influencers have been charged with felonies in Minneapolis over attempts in the state’s election primary to disguise themselves in what they called “Muslim garb” and claim they were local voters.

James O’Keefe and Cam Higby went to polling places in Minnesota during the state’s August primary in an attempt to show vulnerabilities in the practice of “vouching”, where a registered voter from the same precinct can vouch for another voter’s eligibility.

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© Composite: Getty Images, SOPA Images, LightRocket

© Composite: Getty Images, SOPA Images, LightRocket

Three plead guilty in $9m romance fraud scam targeting elderly Americans

28 October 2026 at 19:57

Twin brothers, 22, from Ghana and a 53-year-old American woman targeted older adults in 25 US states, officials say

Three people have pleaded guilty in a $9m romance fraud scam that targeted elderly Americans.

On Monday, the US attorney’s office in the northern district of Ohio announced that twin brothers from Ghana and an American woman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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© Photograph: US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio

© Photograph: US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio

© Photograph: US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio

Tommy Robinson facing up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of harassing journalists

28 October 2026 at 19:04

Judge says he will consider all options when sentencing far-right activist who trial heard deployed ‘bullyboy, intimidatory tactics’

Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of harassing two journalists to the point it caused them fear of violence.

Journalists from the Daily Mail and their family members fled their homes after “bullyboy, intimidatory tactics” were deployed by the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, his trial was told.

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© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of harassing journalists

28 October 2026 at 19:04

Judge says he will consider all options to sentence far-right activist who trial heard deployed ‘bullyboy, intimidatory tactics’

Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of harassing two journalists to the point it caused them fear of violence.

Journalists from the Daily Mail and their family members fled their homes after “bullyboy, intimidatory tactics” were deployed by the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, his trial was told.

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© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

US teen whose father arranged her marriage to Islamic State fighter convicted for weapons training

28 October 2026 at 16:36

‘You try to leave, it is death,’ Halima Salman testified. Her mother and defense attorneys wept after the verdict

A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter was convicted on Tuesday of receiving weapons training from the militant group.

Prosecutors said Halima Salman, a US citizen, pledged loyalty to the extremist group and willingly participated in its activities. Jurors were shown a video of her holding an assault rifle, a photo of her with the group’s flag and loving text messages she sent her husband.

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© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

Russell Brand tells court he ‘misused’ fame for ‘reckless philandering’ – latest updates

28 October 2026 at 18:57

Brand, 51, who has been charged with three counts of rape says he acted ‘consensually’

  • Content warning: this article contains references to allegations of sexual abuse which some readers might find distressing

Winter moved on to count 5, in which a woman alleged Brand sexually assaulted her when she was in her 20s and working at a radio station in 2004 or 2005.

Winter asked Brand whether he “sloppily kissed her”.

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© Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

© Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

Russell Brand tells court he ‘misused’ fame for ‘reckless philandering’ – as it happened

28 October 2026 at 19:31

Brand, 51, who has been charged with three counts of rape says he acted ‘consensually’

  • Content warning: this article contains references to allegations of sexual abuse which some readers might find distressing

Winter moved on to count 5, in which a woman alleged Brand sexually assaulted her when she was in her 20s and working at a radio station in 2004 or 2005.

Winter asked Brand whether he “sloppily kissed her”.

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© Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

© Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

© Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

A US woman feared dead was reported alive in Mexico. But police now say that isn’t true

28 October 2026 at 13:00

Mexican police had said they found Shayna Feinman in Tijuana, raising the hopes of missing Arizonan’s family

Arizona authorities say their Mexican counterparts were resoundingly mistaken when they publicly claimed recently that they found alive a woman who was feared slain after disappearing in 2024 – a turn of events that her sister has called “turmoil” and “heartbreaking”.

The case in question centers on Shayna Feinman, who was reported missing in rural Yavapai county, Arizona, in March 2024 at age 38.

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© Photograph: Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

© Photograph: Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

© Photograph: Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

DNA links serial killer Ted Bundy to 1974 murder of Utah girl

28 October 2026 at 02:52

Discovery comes months after Utah county detectives confirmed that Bundy had killed another Utah girl that year

The notorious serial killer Ted Bundy has been found responsible, through DNA evidence, for the murder of a 17-year-old Utah girl who went missing in 1974 before her nude body was found days later, state authorities announced at a Tuesday news conference.

The breakthrough in the investigation of Melissa Ann Smith’s death comes months after Utah county detectives confirmed in April that Bundy had killed another Utah girl, 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, in 1974.

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© Photograph: Ken Hawkins/Alamy

© Photograph: Ken Hawkins/Alamy

© Photograph: Ken Hawkins/Alamy

Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years for drugging and raping dozens of women

Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander sentenced to prison in New York after being convicted in sex trafficking case

Three Florida brothers who exploited the wealth and influence of their family’s luxury real estate business to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York on Tuesday for sex trafficking.

Twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, were convicted in March on multiple charges after a five-week trial heard details of years of sexual assaults committed in Miami, New York and other high-end locations including the Hamptons; Aspen, Colorado; and on a Caribbean cruise.

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© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

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