Three people have been charged after four ambulances run by the Jewish volunteer service Hatzola were deliberately burned in a synagogue car park in Golders Green in the early hours of 23 March.Two men, aged 20 and 19, and a 17-year-old with dual British-Pakistani nationality face counts of arson and of acting in a way that could have endangered life.All three were arrested on Wednesday at...

A 2,500-year-old Dacian golden helmet has been recovered and returned to the Drents Museum in Assen more than a year after it was stolen.Two matching gold bracelets from around 450 BC were also handed back, while a third bracelet remains missing.The treasures — on loan from Romania’s national history museum for an exhibition about the Dacian world — were placed behind glass in the museum...

A month of air strikes, economic collapse and harsh crackdowns has left many Iranians living on edge, sleepless and worried about survival.In Tehran a young woman — given a pseudonym for her safety — describes the moment the war came into her office: a violent blast, smoke on the skyline and instant panic as colleagues fled to the roof.Her employer closed the business that day and let staff...

Outlander picks up this week after a dramatic cliffhanger and the return of a familiar face, with episode five promising to raise the stakes for Jamie Fraser.The instalment, titled Send for the Devil, lands in the UK on Saturday, April 4 via MGM+ on Prime Video.Viewers will need both MGM+ and Prime subscriptions to stream it, and episodes can be downloaded for offline viewing. In the United...

Buckingham Palace has pushed back against comments from US President Donald Trump suggesting King Charles would take a different line from the British government on the war in Iran.Trump told The Telegraph he viewed the monarch as a courageous figure who had endured much, and said he believed the King would have adopted a stance unlike that of the UK administration.He contrasted that view with...

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats emerged as the largest party in Tuesday's election but suffered their poorest result in more than a century.With 21.9% of the vote, the Social Democrats remain the single biggest force in parliament, yet the left-leaning coalition they lead fell well short of a working majority.The so-called red bloc secured 84 seats in the 179-member Folketing,...

A Paris court has sentenced Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to 18 years in prison after finding him guilty of raping three women.The verdict follows a separate conviction in Switzerland two years earlier for a different sexual assault.The case in France surfaced in 2017 amid the wider Me Too movement, when two of the three complainants first went public. The women said the assaults took place in...

Germany is preparing to tighten its laws on pornographic deepfakes after a television actress accused her former husband of circulating sexually explicit fake images of her online.Collien Fernandes has filed a complaint in Spain against actor Christian Ulmen, saying fake social media accounts with sexualised images of her have appeared for about a decade.She says the offending material was traced...

The European Parliament has approved legislation to put an EU‑US trade framework into effect, but only after adding measures to protect European interests.Lawmakers insisted on conditions that would force a pause or end the deal if Washington fails to meet its commitments.MEPs voted 417 in favour, 154 against and 71 abstained. The text still needs formal approval from all 27 EU governments...

The UK is set to experience the steepest slowdown in growth among G20 economies as a result of the war involving Iran, the OECD warns.The organisation now expects UK GDP to expand by just 0.7% this year, a marked downgrade from its earlier 1.2% forecast.At the same time, UK inflation is projected to rise to about 4%, up sharply from previous estimates. Global forecasts were also adjusted.While...