Europe

    A young British student has died after she fell from a balcony whilst she was holidaying in Thailand. She was due to return to the UK in three days after the tragic accident. Maxine Missick, 23, was found dead in a hotel in Southern Thailand at 5.30am on Friday morning by a passing motorcyclist who heard her body hit the ground. She had checked into a room on the 31st floor of the hotel in Hat Yai last Monday. Friends of the student have demanded that police begin an investigation into her death. However they have now ruled out foul play as they was no signs of a robbery in her hotel room. Police have now said they believe that she committed suicide or she fell from the balcony by accident. According to the MailOnline, her friends said that Maxine was happy and planning fo...

    Russian ambassador Migayas Shirinskiy has become the eighth Kremlin diplomat to die since the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, sparking conspiracy theories. Shirinsky, ambassador to Sudan, was swimming in the pool of his residence in Khartoum last Wednesday when he seemed to suffer a heart attack. While there is no evidence to suggest his demise was suspicious, he is just the latest in a string of Russian emissaries to die unexpectedly. Foul play has been ruled out in some cases, but questions linger in others. That's either because the facts have changed over time, details are hard to come by, or the deaths are still under investigation, says CNN. A darker theory links the deaths to the claims of Russian state interference in the 2016 US election and the electio...

    Danish authorities have filed another charge against the inventor of a home-made submarine suspected over the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, whose headless torso was found off Copenhagen. Peter Madsen, already charged with preliminary manslaughter for Ms Wall’s death, now faces a charge of indecent handling of a corpse, according to chief investigator Jens Moeller Jensen. Madsen denies wrongdoing, saying Ms Wall died in an accident aboard the submarine and he buried her at sea. She was last seen alive on the submarine on August 10 and her naked torso was found on Monday. Police said her head, arms and leg had been deliberately cut off. They also said a piece of metal had been attached to the torso likely with the purpose to make it sink, and marks on it indicated so...

    Around 100 people are evacuated from small villages after the landslide, while 12 farm buildings have been destroyed. Eight people are missing following a landslide in southeastern Switzerland, police have said. Around 100 people have been evacuated from several small villages in the Val Bondasca region following the landslide on Wednesday. Graubunden cantonal police have said that German, Austrian and Swiss citizens are among the missing. Officers said they had been missing for more than a day, and that six of the eight had been reported missing by relatives. They added that 12 farm buildings, including barns and stables, had been destroyed. Hikers were airlifted from nearby huts after the area was hit by rocks and mud. An army helicopter has been called in to help with t...

    A mother has died after she was cut in half in a hospital lift shortly after giving birth to her third daughter. Rocio Cortes Nunez was being transported on a stretcher to another floor of Our Lady of Valme Hospital in Seville, southern Spain, when she became trapped in the elevator. She had just given birth by C-section and was on her way to a maternity ward to recover and spend time with her newborn on Sunday, according to a report by El Correro. Her baby escaped unhurt, the newspaper said. She had two other girls, aged four and five-years-old, according to local media, which reported the 25-year-old had been decapitated in the horrific tragedy. It is thought the lift began moving upwards before the stretcher was fully in, following a suspected mechanical failure. The vi...

    Isis has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack in Russia that injured eight people, the group's Amaq news agency has said. An attacker was killed by police after knifing people in the Siberian city Surgut on Saturday morning. Russian authorities had earlier declined to comment on whether the incident was being treated as a terrorist attack. The state-owned RIA Novosti agency said two people were in critical condition in hospital. It happened at about 11.20am local time, Russia Today reported. Surgut, with a population of about 320,000, is an oil- and gas-producing centre 2,100km (1,300 miles) northeast of Moscow.

    Knife attack Eight people have been injured after a knifeman attacked pedestrians in the street in the Russian city of Surgut. The perpetrator was then shot dead by a police patrol, according to reports. A man was running along the main streets stabbing people, the TASS news agency reported. Authorities are now trying to identify the attacker and find out the motive for his stabbing spree. There are claims he had mental health issues.

    A huge manhunt was underway across Europe last night for at least one jihadist feared to be still at large after plotting the Barcelona terrorist attacks. Police and security services were hunting for the remaining members of a Moroccan-born terror cell, amid fears that they could be preparing further attacks at popular tourist areas. Moussa Oukabir The 17-year-old key suspect of the Barcelona van outrage, Moussa Oukabir, was one of five terrorists shot dead by Spanish police during an attack on the coastal resort of Cambrils in the early hours of yesterday, authorities confirmed last night. They also named Said Aalla, 18 and Mohamed Hychami, 24 as among those shot dead. Four other suspects were taken into custody. But police were last night continuing to appeal for inform...

    Spanish police intensified a manhunt Friday for suspects behind two deadly vehicle attacks on civilians, shooting and killing five people wearing fake bomb belts who attacked a seaside resort and arresting four others believed linked to the carnage wrought on a Barcelona promenade. Spanish authorities said the back-to-back vehicle attacks Thursday afternoon and early Friday morning as well as a deadly explosion earlier this week in a house elsewhere in Catalonia — were related and the work of a large terrorist group. The Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for Europe's latest bout of extremist violence, which left 13 dead and 100 wounded after a van roared down Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas promenade on Thursday. Hours later, a blue Audi plowed into peopl...

    The majority of British motorists heading out to Europe are unaware of a new law that could land them a £640 fine if caught speeding, new research has revealed. A new EU cross-border directive on traffic offences means that Brits who get caught speeding in the European Union now face fines of up to £640. The new law allows foreign police officers to use DVLA data to track down drivers who’ve committed a driving offence abroad. Analysis by breakdown provider Green Flag found that 81 per cent of British drivers are unaware of the new law introduced in May this year. This is made worse with 69 per cent of drivers putting themselves at risk by admitting they do not know how to convert their speed from miles per hour to kilometres per hour. Cross border offences were previously...