Berlin authorities have reported a decrease in violence during New Year’s Eve celebrations in comparison to the previous year. The holiday saw the temporary detention of 390 people and injuries to 54 police officers. A significant police presence of 4,500 officers patrolled
One person died, and 21 people were severely injured when fire broke out at a bar in the southeastern Austrian city of Graz in the early hours of the New Year. Austrian police said that the fire broke out around 4 a.m.
In the cold morning light of 1 January 2024, one local reporter took it upon herself to assess the damage after New Year’s Eve had been and gone in Hanley, near Stoke-on-Trent. Hannah Hiles had anticipated scores of beleaguered boozers nursing the
A young woman has lost her life after a fire ripped through a house in Oxford this morning. The 25-year-old is yet to be named and died in hospital, after the fire broke out in the city’s suburb of Headington. Police raced
Sadiq Khan has come under criticism after last night’s fireworks display (Image: GETTY/BBC) Sadiq Khan has triggered a furious backlash on social media after last night’s spectacular fireworks display in London, with one critic branding him a “narcissist”, and another accusing him
A murder investigation has been launched after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in London on New Year’s Eve. The teenager died following an attack in Primrose Hill on Sunday night. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called at around 11.40pm
Sadiq Khan stumbled through an awkward New Year’s Eve interview in which he was put on the spot over London’s knife crime epidemic – and asked to explain why the capital was “doing so badly”. Mr Khan was interviewed by Sky News’s
A “major tsunami warning” for a broad area of central Japan has been issued in the wake of a powerful earthquake. The warning is uring people to quickly leave areas of the Asian country’s western coast, including in the prefectures of Ishikawa,
Vladimir Putin warned that Russia “would never back down” in a chilling New Year’s Eve address following deadly air strikes on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Although he didn’t directly mention the Ukraine conflict, he praised his country’s military personnel, saying: “We
The list has included recipients from areas including the ceremony’s orchestra conductor, to the clerk who arranged the seating plan at Westminster Abbey, along with police officers tasked with security measures and even the Archbishop of Canterbury. With that said, Edward Fitzalan-Howard,