The death toll is expected to climb today after a 14-storey tower block in Spain was gutted by an uncontrollable inferno, with experts blaming its flammable cladding.

Video posted by a Russian news agency shows 33-year-old Ksenia Karelina being led into a courtroom in handcuffs with her face blurred.

HMRC began investigating the TV presenter’s IR35 status in 2014 when she hosted ‘The Kaye Adams Programme’ on BBC Radio Scotland, since then she has won three court battles.

Anatoly Evsyukov, 65 and his wife, Anna Evsyukova, 64, were aboard the Dassault Falcon 10 aircraft when it fell off the radar near the rural Badakhshan province, in northeastern Afghanistan, on Saturday.

Around 160 of the gentle giants perished in a matter of weeks in the country’s Hwange national park, which did not experience a single drop of rain between February and November 2023.

The missing man is understood to have entered the water at Penrith Beach, about 58km west of Sydney at about 2.35pm on Boxing Day.

Elizabeth Lawrence, who works at Apple in Silicon Valley, was on board the Norwegian cruise ship MS Maud when it was struck by a huge ‘rogue wave’ in the North Sea on Thursday.

David Kozak, 24, was suspected of being behind the slaying of the 32-year-old father, named locally as Martin, and his daughter as she lay in her pram during a walk through a forest.

The SS Richard Montgomery sank in the Thames Estuary in August 1944, coming to rest at a depth of 49ft with 1,400 tonnes of explosives still in her hold.