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Teenager admitted it was not the first time he had taken the vehicle but told the court he ‘won’t do it again’A 13-year-old boy who drove his family’s Volkswagen campervan on a 70mph road in the middle of the night for a joyride in Dorset has been given penalty points for a future licence, a court heard.The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was spotted by other motorists […]

Vatican appears to order removal of restored painting that looked like Italian PM after embarrassing debacleThe face of a winged angel bearing a striking resemblance to the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been erased from a fresco in a historic Rome church, putting an end to a debacle that embarrassed the Vatican.The image on the wall painting in a chapel of the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina in […]

Local politician says armed men rounded up residents, bound their hands behind their backs and shot themMore than 160 people have been killed in two villages in western Nigeria in the country’s deadliest armed assaults this year, as communities reel from repeated and widespread acts of violence perpetrated by jihadists and other armed groups.The death toll from Tuesday’s attacks in Woro and Nuku in Kwara state stood at 162 on […]

Julie Le expressed frustration to judge, in response to questions on why ICE has failed to comply with court ordersAn ICE attorney who publicly expressed frustrations with her role and told a court “this job sucks” is no longer detailed to the US attorney’s office for the district of Minnesota, according to NBC News.“The system sucks. This job sucks,” Julie Le, an attorney representing the US attorney’s office in Minnesota, […]

House Democrats say US anti-trafficking efforts have been hamstrung by diversion of resources to immigration raidsA diversion of law enforcement personnel and resources to assist with Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and deployments to US cities has undermined the government’s efforts to combat child exploitation and human trafficking, Democratic lawmakers warned.In the letter, sent on Wednesday and first shared with the Guardian, nearly two dozen House Democrats demand that the […]

Sheriff’s department says detectives are speaking with anyone who may have been in contact with Nancy GuthrieAuthorities in Arizona have still not identified a suspect in the investigation surrounding the apparent abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the elderly mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie.In a statement posted on X, the Pima county sheriff’s department said that detectives are continuing to speak with anyone who may have been in contact with […]

Position of Mountbatten-Windsor now appears even more grave, and the shadow cast over his family even darkerWhen King Charles stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his titles and announced he would be booted out of Royal Lodge, Buckingham Palace said the “censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him”.Four months and more than 3m documents later, Charles must surely feel vindicated on his tough […]