Ria Chatterjee

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been cleared of breaking the law when she refused to follow police orders to leave a protest at a London oil conference last year. There was applause in court as the judge acquitted her and her four co-defendants, saying there was not enough evidence against them and the order to…

A man has been shot dead by armed police in south-east London, after officers said he tried to force his way into a property. The police watchdog has now launched an investigation – something they always do when there’s a fatal police shooting.

Survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower fire have been testifying this week about their long term suffering, speaking directly to the companies accused over the disaster. 

Pro-choice, pro-abortion campaigners fear the UK government could be about to water down legislation which prevents women who are attending clinics for terminations being confronted by anti-abortion protesters. 

25 people have been killed by shelling at a market in Donetsk city, in Russian occupied Ukraine, according to Moscow-installed officials who blamed Ukraine for the attack.

The family of a fugitive Ecuadorian drug kingpin have been arrested in Argentina and deported back to Ecuador – after his escape from jail sparked a wave of violence and riots across the Andean nation. 

Rap music is art, not evidence, according to a new campaign which says lyrics shouldn’t routinely be used to prosecute people in court.

The actor Idris Elba says he can’t “stay silent as more young lives are lost to brutal and heartless crimes” as he launched a new campaign to tackle youth violence and knife crime. 

Now it’s Welsh rap that’s on the rise, and one person who’s helping to breathe new life into Welsh language music is the rapper Sage Todz. 

Police forces in England and Wales are failing to follow child safeguarding protocols and must do more to minimise harm whilst using their powers to stop and search, according to an investigation by the official inspectorate. 

We spoke to Dr Karin von Hippel, who’s director general of the Royal United Services think tank and formerly of the US State Department.

Tens of thousands more people will be homeless this Christmas, as charities warn that England’s housing emergency is spiralling out of control.

For more than two weeks, rescuers in India have been drilling and digging through debris, trying to reach a group of construction workers who’ve been trapped since the tunnel they were building collapsed.

The Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has condemned anti-immigrant rioters who went on the rampage in central Dublin last night – calling it an attack on Irish society and the rule of law. 34 people were arrested after the crowd set fire to vehicles, looted shops and clashed with riot police. The unrest began after…

Two Metropolitan police officers have been sacked after their behaviour over the stop and search of two Black athletes was declared to be gross misconduct.