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A former YouTuber who gave parenting advice online has been jailed for up to 30 years after she admitted to physically and emotionally abusing her children.Ruby Franke, a mother of six from Utah who gave parenting tips via a once-popular video blog called "8 Passengers", convinced her two youngest children that they were evil, possessed and needed to be punished to repent. She and her business partner, mental health counsellor […]

An infamous cyber crime gang has been disrupted by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and a coalition of international police agencies. Lockbit and its affiliates have hacked some of the world's largest organisations in recent months, but as of Monday their extortion website displays a message saying it is "under the control of the National Crime Agency of the UK".Five Russian nationals have been charged.But what is Lockbit, what are […]

An infamous cybercrime gang that holds victims' data to ransom has been disrupted by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and a coalition of international police agencies. A post on Lockbit's extortion website on Monday said: "This site is now under the control of the National Crime Agency of the UK, working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement task force, 'Operation Cronos'." Europol and other international police […]

A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine last year has reportedly been found dead in an underground car park in Spain. Maxim Kuzminov's body was found with gunshot wounds on 13 February in the town of Villajoyosa, near Alicante in southern Spain. Spanish media reported that investigators were searching for two suspects who had fled in a vehicle that was later found burnt out in a nearby town.Russia-Ukraine latest: Follow live […]

Donald Trump has broken his silence on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny - but avoided casting blame on President Vladimir Putin.Mr Trump, who drew criticism for praising the Russian ruler during his presidency, spoke out in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. The former US president wrote on Monday: "The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what […]

An uncontrolled satellite is expected to hurtle through Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, almost 30 years after it was launched.The satellite, known as ERS-2, is expected to break up into pieces on reentry, the majority of which will burn up. Because the reentry is "natural" - in other words, not controlled by humans - it is impossible to predict exactly when and where it will happen, according to the European Space […]

The widow of former Russian Federal Security Service agent, Alexander Litvinenko, has said Vladimir Putin critics in Russia need support from the West. Marina Litvinenko's husband, a prominent Putin critic, died in 2006 after being poisoned in London with Polonium 210, a rare and very potent radioactive isotope. The former FSB agent's murder was suspected to have been personally signed off by Mr Putin, but Russia has always denied any […]

In the days since Alexei Navalny's death, people have kept coming to lay flowers at two sites in the heart of Moscow which commemorate the victims of Soviet repression.One is the Solovetsky Stone, right beside the FSB's headquarters on Lubyanka Square; the other is the so-called 'Wall of Grief', a more recent memorial site, which is as harshly emotive as the name suggests. Police tell them to move on, not […]

Alexei Navalny's body has been transferred to a morgue, according to a Russian news outlet, with guards reportedly "mysteriously" searching prison cells the night before his death.Many have blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the opposition leader's death, which was reported on Friday, and calls are growing for an independent investigation. His body has been taken to the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital's morgue, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports, but as of […]