A politician resigning over a decade-old guilty plea for mobile phone fraud might not seem like the story of the year. But when Louise Haigh MP stepped down under a barrage of sensational headlines, I decided to file a complaint with the…
In a typical slice of shameless self-promotion, Elon Musk has claimed that the legacy media is a dead duck, swept away by a new generation of X-style bloggers and citizen journalists surfing the Trump tidal wave right into the White…
Italian officials have ended free access to the famous Juliet Balcony in Verona that is linked to the famous scene in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and will instead demand a GBP 10 fee from a maximum of just over 1,000…
Rescuers are in a race against time as they continue the desperate search for a British teenager who vanished near Dracula’s Castle after calling for help saying he was exhausted and suffering from hypothermia. His mother, Jo Smyth, has now…
A pilot who crashed a small aircraft with a popular TV presenter on board killing them both was high on drugs and drunk when he took off, it has emerged. The deadly crash happened near the Ciudad Mitras Industrial Park…
By Michael Leidig With his marriage in tatters and shocking revelations about his antics with co-star Rebel Wilson on a film set, you’d think Sasha Baron Cohen had enough on his plate. But now one of his most notorious creations,…
News agencies are often seen as stepping stones to bigger careers, but for Shantanu Guha Ray, who had already worked for some of the biggest names in the business, working for an agency meant freedom to do the stories he…
A few years back, I wrote a book that was an international bestseller after signing up with a major publishing house. Being a signed author is in a different league to being a journalist, I went back to London after…
The Asia Editor for a British newswire agency has won a prestigious award for his campaigning work in fighting sports corruption. New Delhi-based editor and author Shantanu Guha Ray has been awarded the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award for a series…
Newly appointed Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico who is in open warfare with local media outlets has hinted at potential restrictions on their access to government officials. Taking office in October as part of a coalition government led by his…