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A glamorous Uzbek ‘princess’ with links to the British royals and London’s high society has been jailed for 13 years in a £1.7 billion corruption trial. Gulnara Karimova, 46, daughter of former tyrannical Uzbekistan ruler Islam Karimov, was sentenced by a secret court in Tashkent. A former billionaire, she was once believed to be the … Read more
The NHS is facing growing pressure to use experimental drugs to help patients diagnosed with the coronavirus. An online petition has been launched calling on authorities to start trials of an anti-malarial drug called chloroquine which has shown promising results in China. Doctors and scientists around the world are scrambling to find a way to … Read more
Former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond has said he ‘wished he had been more careful with people’s personal space’ as he started giving evidence in his trial. Salmond took to the witness box at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning facing accusations of sexual assault and one of attempted rape. The 65-year-old … Read more
Juror in trial of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s brother Hashem is discharged after going into self-isolation with suspected coronavirus The judge has said that the trial will continue with a jury of 11 for the time being Abedi, 22, is on trial for 22 counts of murder after the 2017 blast in Manchester Another 171 … Read more
An alleged fraudster accused of conning a council out of £31,800 by pretending to live at Grenfell Tower was caught out after spelling its name wrong, a court heard today. Shaffick Brimer, 50, raised suspicion with investigators when he misspelled the tower block as ‘Glenfell’ on housing claim forms, jurors were told. The court heard … Read more
Coronavirus vaccine starts clinical trials in the US on Monday – but it will be up to a year before it is ready for use By Associated Press Published: 23:29 GMT, 15 March 2020 | Updated: 01:25 GMT, 16 March 2020 A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will … Read more
Lori Loughlin receives International Women’s Day tribute from daughter Bella Giannulli… amid pending trial in college admissions scandal Bella’s parents Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli are preparing for their trial in the college admission scandal They are accused of paying a admissions official $500k to designate Olivia and her sister as USC crew team recruits, … Read more
Alex Salmond arrives for trial where he faces 14 sexual assault charges including one of attempted rape and claims he ‘pinned a woman against a wall then stripped her naked’ Former first minister faces 14 charges of alleged offences against 10 women He denies charges, including one of attempted rape and two of indecent assault … Read more
The controversial trial of an Army veteran over a fatal shooting during the Northern Ireland Troubles has been postponed due to the ill-health of the accused. Dennis Hutchings, 78, was due to be at Belfast Crown Court on Monday morning for the opening day of his trial. Mr Hutchings, from Cawsand in Cornwall, a former … Read more
An allotment owner has described his disbelief after watching a family friend pull a decapitated head from a bag and kiss it on the head. John Murray said Odessa Carey, 36, had visited him at his garden, where he lived in the shed, last April and shown him the severed head of her mother, who … Read more