Mary Carole McDonnell spent years creating true-crime television series. Now she’s become entangled in a criminal drama of her own.

“What will fiction be like in the Trump era?” one writer wondered eight years ago. Now we have the answer: not as fanciful as reality.

A tranche of documents about Jeffrey Epstein will be unsealed this week. What are they, and what might they reveal?

A plan to vet the social media and personal history of tourists entering the US is a new low in Trumpian chaos.

The hit could be the deadliest on a hospital in almost five years of Myanmar civil war.

China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in more than three decades.

Taiwan is the reddest of red lines for Beijing, and Japan’s new prime minister has discovered the cost of crossing it.

In Indiana, the state Senate roundly rejected a push to redraw the electoral map to benefit Donald Trump. In the end, despite the president’s threats, the vote wasn’t even close.

A young man turned a carpet cleaning business into a massive fraud scheme, starring in his own commercials.

Indiana's Republican-led Senate decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map that would have favoured their party, defying months of pressure from President Donald Trump.

The US has added six more ships to its list of sanctioned vessels believed to be ferrying Venezuelan oil, amid expectations it will intercept and seize more tankers.

Mark Rutte urged allies to step up defence efforts to prevent a war that could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured”.

The architects behind Artificial Intelligence have been named Time Magazine Person of the Year 2025.

More than 600 high value artefacts have been stolen in a raid at a British museum.

The man accused of killing US political activist Charlie Kirk is due in court today.

Facing serious charges, Andrew Tate was barred from leaving Romania. Then weeks after Donald Trump took office, an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government.

A Saudi-registered blue Rolls-Royce worth nearly $501,000 was one of the cars removed in a council crackdown outside a London hotel that charges from $2800 a night.

The captain’s pick for the role of defence secretary is facing allegations he’s presided over a military mission that may have been marked by war crimes. That’s a step too far for some of the president’s fans.

Applying for a visa waiver is also set to get more complicated under the new plan, with authorities seeking to collect far more detailed information including biometrics, IP addresses and metadata and family histories.

Overnight, Maria Corina Machado has re-established herself as a major player in an escalating game of brinkmanship between the US president and Venezuela’s leader.