Serving Met police officer arrested after BBC Panorama investigation

President Donald Trump has authorised the deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago to address what he says is out-of-control crime. The move came hours after immigration authorities said they faced off with protesters in the Democrat-run city and shot an armed woman when she and others rammed their cars into law enforcement vehicles….

Two men killed in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester have been named by police as Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66. One of the men killed was hit by police gunfire as they shot the attacker, police said. Three others remain in hospital with serious injuries after Jihad Al-Shamie rammed a car…

The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia has risen to 54, authorities said, with rescuers still searching for more than a dozen missing people. Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered for prayers at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java when it collapsed last Monday…

South Africa were voted the men’s team of the year at the World Rugby awards last year. Having picked up back-to-back Rugby Championships, the world’s number one-ranked team could be picking up the prize again. But what makes the achievement more remarkable is the amount of players head coach Rassie Erasmus has used. “I think…

In the end, Emmanuel Macron’s man wasn’t able to pull it off either. When Sébastien Lecornu was appointed France’s prime minister three and a half weeks ago, the spin was that this was President Macron’s last card. A last card, we were told, but a good one. The 39-year-old was a presidential protégé – loyal,…

Reuters Emergency services at the scene after the attack on Thursday morning Two Jewish people have died in a car ramming and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester. The attack came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar, and is being treated by police as a terror incident. Police say…