Crime

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online New York has marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a powerful aerial memorial, using 2,977 illuminated drones to recreate the outline of the Twin Towers above New York Harbor. Each light represented one person killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001, turning the night sky above the city into a visual remembrance of...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A former Household Cavalry soldier who plotted to sexually abuse two young children after believing he had reached an agreement with their mother has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Graham Jarvis, 38, was convicted after arranging to travel from his London barracks to Wales to commit sexual offences against a seven-year-old girl and a 10-month-old baby....

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Philippine rescuers have finally entered the charred remains of the MV June Aster more than 40 hours after a devastating fire broke out aboard the passenger-cargo ferry, as the search continues for 84 people still unaccounted for. Five people have been confirmed dead and 43 have been rescued, according to the Philippine Coast Guard, while many of those...

Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has rejected a warning from the UK’s Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, that the government’s sanctions against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank could make British Jews less safe. Miliband, who has described himself as a “proud British Jew”, said it was possible for the UK government to challenge policies pursued by Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A year after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the organisation he founded is still grappling with grief, political pressure and deep questions over how to move forward without the man who built it from a small youth movement into a powerful force within American conservative politics. Turning Point USA, the ultraconservative activist organisation founded by Kirk in...

Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A Sydney woman endured years of domestic abuse before discovering that her former partner could remotely control her Tesla, manipulating the vehicle’s speed, temperature, locks and other functions to intimidate and harass her after their relationship ended. The woman, identified by the pseudonym Stacey, had already experienced four years of alleged abuse by her former partner, Enrico Pucci, before...

Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The family of a British father whose body was discovered in Grenada in January has urged authorities in the Caribbean nation to cooperate fully with Metropolitan police investigators in the UK as they continue efforts to establish how he died. Andrew Donald Frederick, 47, was found dead on 4 January at the property where he had been staying in...

Published: 09 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A 22-year-old Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the United States to helping organise one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever prosecuted by American authorities, admitting his role in a conspiracy that stole approximately $245m (£181m) in bitcoin. Malone Lam pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in a US court after prosecutors accused him of...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Councils across England are spending more than £125 million a year to place some of the country’s most vulnerable children in care settings that are not legally registered, an investigation has found, exposing the scale of a rapidly expanding market created by a severe shortage of suitable accommodation. Analysis of local authority payment records covering the past two...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. CAGNES-SUR-MER — Two thieves broke into a museum dedicated to French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir on the French Riviera early Tuesday, stealing four artworks in a raid that authorities estimate could involve works worth about €9 million. The incident took place at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the painter spent the final years of...