Symeon Brown , News Correspondent

Since June 2023, at least 400 deaths have been linked to new synthetic opioid drugs that were either not previously linked to severe public health concerns or had been created with compositions that allowed them to evade legal restrictions.

In six day’s time, Donald Trump will once again be president of the world’s most powerful nation.

From New Zealand to Kuala Lumpur, parts of the world have already been welcoming in the new year.

A day after the father and stepmother of Sara Sharif were found guilty of her murder, a report has revealed that 485 children were killed or seriously harmed by abuse or neglect in England in the year to April.

When she died at the age of just 10, Sara Sharif had 71 external injuries, including bruises, burns and human bite marks. Before fleeing to Pakistan, her father Urfan Sharif left a handwritten confession saying he’d “lost it” and killed her. During the trial he lied for six days, before finally accepting full responsibility for her death. 

Storm Darragh left tens of thousands of homes without power after millions of people were warned to stay indoors after a rare red weather warning was issued and alerts were sent to mobile phones. 

President Trump celebrated his election win last night in New York at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, whose president was one of HIS most high-profile supporters. 

Thousands of volunteers have turned up outside an abandoned South African gold mine to help rescue thousands of miners feared to be trapped deep underground. 

Tuition fees may be going up, but three out of four universities are still expected to be in the red next academic year.

The father of Sara Sharif has told the Old Bailey he takes “full responsibility” for her death. 

Don’t call it a comeback. Rapper, film and TV star LL Cool J has a new album out called ‘The FORCE’, 40 years after he became one of hip-hop’s earliest and biggest icons.

Quincy Jones – a titan of the US music industry – has died at the age of 91. Musician, composer, arranger, producer – there was little the man known as “Q” didn’t do in his career – which spanned more than seven decades. From Frank Sinatra to Aretha Franklin, he worked with a huge array…

Video footage has emerged of the moment the family of the murdered 10 year old Sara Sharif were detained by police.

The Washington brothers have been speaking to Symeon Brown.

The Spanish government has declared three days of mourning after scores of people were killed in flash floods which swept across southeastern Spain.