Facebook have taken down a network of more than 100 accounts and pages for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on its social network; this is the first time it has done this for UK-based operations seeking to influence British citizens. The operation was spread over Facebook and Instagram, it used a network of face accounts to pose…
An air and sea search for a British and French tourist has been scaled back. Passersby found the belongings of Hugo Palmer and Erwan Ferrieux on a beach north of Sydney on Monday. Police searched the beach and discovered the pair’s rental car nearby. Other personal items including travel documents were found in the vehicle….
DNA that was found on Alesha MacPhail’s body matched the 16-year-old accused of her murder, a court has heard. Forensic scientist Stuart Bailey told the jury that the odds of the intimate samples belonging to anyone else were more than a billion to one. The teenager still denies abducting, raping and murdering six-year-old Alesha. Alesha’s…
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died, aged 85, in Paris. The German designer who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi was one of the most prolific figures and worked until the day he died. Lagerfeld also designed collections for his own brand and collaborated with high street brand H&M. Many tributes have been posted…
A British man and a French man have gone missing while backpacking in Australia, sparking a police search. The alarm was raised when passersby found the belongings of Hugo Palmer and Erwan Ferrieux on a beach north of Sydney on Monday. Police searched the beach and discovered the pair’s rental car nearby. Other personal items…
Australian prosecutors have dropped their case against a man who had been accused of murdering a UK-born toddler almost 50 years ago. The disappearance of three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer from a New South Wales beach in 1970 is one of Australia’s longest-running mysteries. A man was arrested in 2017 and pleaded not guilty to murder. This…
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