Newly unsealed court filings have revealed that US singer D4vd – real name David Anthony Burke – is the target of a grand jury investigation into the apparent murder of a 14-year-old girl, whose remains were found in his car in September. The filings were released after D4vd’s family were summoned by a California court to testify before the grand jury. Dawud Burke, D4vd’s father, fought against the summons in a Texas court, and in doing so included portions of material from the California case that had not been previously available to the public. The filings confirm that D4vd has…
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Four people were found guilty and given jail terms by a Greek court after a wiretapping scandal shook the country in 2022. In what became known as “Greece’s Watergate”, surveillance software called Predator was used to target 87 people – among them government ministers, senior military officials and journalists. The four who had marketed the software were found guilty by an Athens court of misdemeanours of violating the confidentiality of telephone communications and illegally accessing personal data and conversations. The court sentenced the four defendants to lengthy jail sentences, suspended pending appeal. Although they each face 126 years, only eight…
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced early elections – hailing the next four years as “decisive” for her country. “We as Danes and as Europeans will really have to stand on our own feet,” Frederiksen told parliament. “We need to define our relationship with the United States,” she added. The past few months of Danish politics have been dominated by US President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland – a semi-autonomous Danish territory. Last month, Trump dropped threats to use force against the fellow Nato ally to seize the Arctic island he argues is necessary to defend against possible…
The top Democrat on the congressional committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein has accused the US justice department of withholding files containing allegations of sexual abuse of a minor made against President Donald Trump. Robert Garcia, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said he had personally viewed documents containing the allegation that had not been made public. In response, the justice department said “NOTHING has been deleted”, adding that documents were withheld only if they were “duplicates, privileged, or part of an ongoing federal investigation”. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to the Epstein case and has recently said…
An inquest into the death of Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 21-month-old son will formally begin on 14 April. The date was set during a preliminary hearing at the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos, roughly seven weeks after Nkanu Nnamdi Esege died at a Euracare hospital. Adiche and her family have accused Euracare of negligence, saying medics denied Nkanu oxygen and gave him too much sedation, causing a cardiac arrest. The hospital expressed its “deepest sympathies” over the death but denied wrongdoing, saying its care had been in line with international standards. During the preliminary hearing on Wednesday, Magistrate Atinuke…
An editor for the YouTube streamer MrBeast and a former California governor candidate are the first two people revealed by prediction market Kalshi to face disciplinary actions for insider trading. Kalshi said it had suspended and fined YouTuber Artem Kaptur and former political hopeful Kyle Langford. The company said it had opened 200 investigations into potential violations of its trading rules over the past year – over a dozen of which have become “active cases”. Prediction markets have surged in popularity in the US, with companies like Kalshi and Polymarket letting users bet on everything from sports to politics. But…
The director of Global Face Limited was Thursday charged with recruiting Kenyan youths to Russia. Festus Arasa Omwamba, a 33-year-old, is alleged to have recruited twenty-two Kenyan youths to Russia for exploitation by means of deception. The Kahawa court heard that on diverse dates between December 1, 2024 and September 24, 2025 at Great Wall Gardens in the Athi River area, Mavoko Sub County within Machakos, with another before the court trafficked by recruiting twenty-two Kenyan nationals to Russia for the purpose of exploitation by means of deception. He pleaded not guilty to charges before magistrate Gideon Kiage. Omwamba surrendered…
Cart abandonment remains one of the biggest barriers to online revenue, and it is still rising globally in e-commerce. In 2025, the global average cart abandonment rate stood at about 70.19%. In early 2026, estimates show it is still hovering around 70–72%, proving that checkout friction continues to disrupt purchases year after year. For online businesses in India, this challenge feels even sharper because digital payments are now part of everyday shopping behaviour. Customers expect fast, familiar and secure payment flows, and they rarely retry a slow or failed checkout. That is where the best payment gateway for India can…
Chip giant Nvidia has reported record annual revenue of $215.9bn (£159.1bn), despite a wave of investor scepticism about the massive amounts of money being spent on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The firm also beat analyst’s forecasts as sales for the last three months of its financial year jumped by 73% compared to 12 months earlier. “Computing demand is growing exponentially,” boss Jensen Huang said. “Our customers are racing to invest in AI compute – the factories powering the AI industrial revolution and their future growth.” While providing chips for companies across the AI sector, Nvidia has also laid out plans…
FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the ouster of at least 10 employees involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, four people briefed on the matter told CNN. The ousters are part of a wider internal investigation into the actions taken in the probe that resulted in criminal charges against Trump and two of his employees, three people briefed on the matter said. Patel ordered the wider investigation following the discovery of records showing that the FBI used subpoenas to obtain his communication records and the communications of now White House…
The Trump administration is weighing a new requirement for US banks to verify citizenship information of current and future customers as part of the president’s aggressive immigration crackdown, sources told CNN. The potential action, which one source said could take the form of an executive order, has raised concern in the industry that banks could be compelled to ask customers for an unprecedented category of documents, including passports and other documents that verify citizenship status. The source cautioned that plans haven’t been finalized and that there are still considerations underway over other options and legal authorities. “It’s a bad idea.…
The Trump administration is withholding more than $250 million in Medicaid funds from Minnesota, claiming widespread fraud as it escalates a pressure campaign on the state’s Democratic leadership. Vice President JD Vance announced the extraordinary move on Wednesday, blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for failing to adequately police the safety-net program and warning the pause would continue until the state submitted an acceptable plan for targeting its misuse. “We are stopping the federal payments that will go to the state government until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American taxpayer,”…
A former US Air Force fighter pilot with more than two decades of experience with nuclear delivery systems and aircraft, including advanced F-35 stealth jets, has been arrested and charged with conspiring to help the Chinese military. Gerald Eddie Brown Jr., 65, was arrested in Jeffersonville, Indiana, on Wednesday and charged with violating the Arms Export Control Act by providing training to pilots in China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. “Providing US military training to our adversaries represents a significant threat to national security,” Lee…
The drone strike that killed M23 military spokesperson Willy Ngoma in eastern Congo this week left at least nine people dead but narrowly missed the rebels’ military commander, who escaped unharmed, four sources told Reuters. The strike hit near Rubaya, a strategic mining hub controlled by M23 that produces around 15% of the world’s supply of coltan and was recently added to a shortlist of mining assets being offered by the Congolese government to the United States under a minerals cooperation framework. Ngoma’s death marks a sharp escalation in the conflict, removing one of the M23’s most visible senior figures…
The High Court in Kibera sentenced a young man to 40 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his employer in Kabete, Dagoreti Sub-County, Nairobi. Delivering the sentence, Justice Diana Kavedza said the circumstances surrounding the killing were particularly disturbing and aggravated the offence, despite the accused saving the court’s time by admitting to the charge. The court heard that the convict killed his employer, Miriam Wangari, in 2021 before proceeding to dismember her body. Parts of her remains, including her head and limbs, have never been recovered. Justice Kavedza observed that the brutality of the…