Another ally of Sir Keir Starmer is quitting the Government as a senior Treasury aide announced his departure today.

Matt Pound will leave his role as Rachel Reeves' political secretary after the Chancellor gives her Spring Statement next week.

A woman allegedly driven to kill herself by a 'tsunami' of abuse from her husband told her GP he was 'very dangerous' and felt he would 'always find her'.

Christopher Trybus, of Swindon, Wiltshire, is accused of the manslaughter of Tarryn Baird, who took her own life aged 34 in November 2017.

A conwoman pretended she had a critically ill husband to prey on her kind-hearted neighbours to fuel her cocaine habit.

Toni Balmer would knock on her neighbours' doors to tell them she urgently needed the money to help her husband, who she said was in critical condition, because she was 'desperate' for drug money.

Savannah Guthrie has now offered a $1 million reward for her kidnapped mother Nancy Guthrie and has conceded for the first time after weeks of searching that she may be dead.

'We need to know where she is, we need her to come home,' Guthrie said in a video posted to her Instagram account Tuesday.

Russian soldiers have revealed the brutality of their commanders, describing executions of their own men, 'meat storm' missions and horrific torture methods as punishment for fleeing the front line.

Speaking in a BBC documentary called The Zero Line: Inside Russia's War, several soldiers recounted how they saw fellow troops killed on the spot for refusing orders.

Passersby were spotted shouting and heckling outside the home of Peter Mandelson on Tuesday hours after his arrest. 

Flanked by suit-clad police officers, the disgraced former minister was led out of his £7.6million property in Camden and taken into custody shortly before 5pm on Monday.

Major underworld figures have pledged to kill the 'fools' responsible for the kidnapping and murder of an innocent 85-year-old man, a legal source has revealed.

Chris Baghsarian's remains were uncovered near a golf course in Sydney's north-west on Tuesday - 11 days after he was forced into a vehicle at 5am by a group of thugs in a tragic case of mistaken identity.

An Indiana school secretary accused of a sexual relationship with a student broke down in tears during a police interview as she admitted to having sex with the 18-year-old student 'three' times.

Alicia Hughes, 31, insisted sexual contact did not happen until after the boy turned 18, according to interrogation footage and reports on the case.

The Crown court backlog will take the 'best part of a decade' to improve under plans published today, ministers have admitted.

Justice minister Sarah Sackman said things would 'get worse before they get better', with the backlog rising from its current record level of 80,000 to hit 100,000 in a year's time.

As any man will testify, a blow to the nether regions is never a pleasant experience. But to compare that brief, if eye-watering, jolt of pain to the rigours of pregnancy and childbirth might seem a bit of a stretch.

Indeed, a tribunal has now ruled that telling colleagues that men being kicked in the privates is more painful than giving birth amounts to sex harassment.

One of Bali's biggest tourist hotspots is experiencing massive flash flooding following torrential rain.

Kuta, Legian and Seminyak, on Bali's south-west coast, have suffered constant rain since Saturday night, resulting in between 30 to 70 centimetres of floodwater.

Donald Trump's ambassador to France Charles Kushner has been banned from meeting government officials after he failed to show up to explain comments about a killed far-right activist.

Emmanuel Macron's government on Monday demanded that Kushner, whose son Jared is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, attend a meeting with the foreign minister to explain criticisms made by the State Department on the rise of 'violent radical leftism' in France.