A team of detectives believe they can build a strong enough case for the Crown Prosecution Service to authorise charges before the 20th anniversary of Maddie's disappearance next year

Pensioner Stephanie Thomson, 75, vanished from a campsite in western France and has not been seen since her disappearance on January 29, sparking concern among her family

US presses Project Freedom as Iran threatens war amid fears the fragile ceasefire will kick off again - and it emerges Tehran's nuclear programme hardly affected

Russian forces targeted rescuers battling major blaze in double-tap onslaught as Moscow braces for revenge attacks threatening its Victory Day Parade celebrations this weekend

Unscrupulous scammers have swindled animal loving Brits out of thousands of pounds by posting pitiful pictures from fake shelters of pet dogs, cats and rabbits - asking for cash to aid their recovery.

As airlines have been granted a green light to consolidate or cancel flights with just two weeks' notice, experts have warned of inevitable chaos this peak holiday season

People on the MV Hondius have been forced to stay on board as it sits off the coast of West Africa - a travel operator revealed the body of the first victim was on the vessel for nearly two weeks

68 Ryanair passengers missed their flight to Edinburgh from Lanzarote on Monday, reportedly due to issues with the airport's new Entry/Exit System (EES) used to register third-country nationals including British travellers

WARNING: SENSITIVE CONTENT Wendy Duffy travelled to Switzerland to end her life - her family claimed they did not know but the clinic says they told the woman's siblings

Asked about reports of dolphins being deployed as weapons in Iran, Pete Hegseth said 'I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins'

The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, which acts as a 'flying gas station' for US military planes, issued a 7700 distress signal while flying over the Persian Gulf

Terror group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia sparked fear across Europe after being suspected of using local criminals to carry out arson and explosives attacks

Russian leader Vladimir Putin's fears of being targeted in assassination attempts and drone attacks has led to him being ridiculed in memes on social media

The 25-year-old Brit had been at the centre of a major search effort by police, coastguards and Red Cross officials for almost three days after he was seen entering the sea at a popular beach in Malaga

Josef Stoffel wrote letters to his mother while he was being held in a Prisoner of War camp in St Neots, Cambridgeshire - but in the chaos of the end of WW2 they were never sent, until now

Holly Cooper and her boyfriend Taylor Johnson, both 20, were arrested at an airport in Istanbul while they were heading to their connecting flight back to London

Met Police detectives have reportedly been building a file of evidence for the Crown Prosecution Service on suspected abduction and murder, with suggestions they can gather a strong enough case for the CPS to authorise charges

Dramatic footage showed the China Eastern Airlines plane smashing into the passenger boarding bridge and causing a large chunk of it to fall off as it landed in Shanghai

The dust turned to a paste in his lungs

World Health Organisation officials have confirmed the suspected cases of Hantavirus on a luxury cruise ship has risen as they reveal the symptoms sick passengers presented with

Brent Crude, the primary benchmark for oil prices worldwide, climbed at the start of the week amid reports that Iran carried out strikes on the UAE and markets worried over the Strait of Hormuz

Russia's appears to be threatening Ukraine with the hypersonic Oreshnik missile, which Vladimir Putin boasts in its conventional mode has the power of a full nuclear explosion

Almost 500 rescuers were deployed to the fireworks factory in south-central China after an explosion killed at least 26 people and left several others injured

Three people have died and a UK passenger remains critical but stable

The 10-year-old girl was admitted to hospital on February 9 - she was suffering from dehydration, critical malnutrition and significant untreated injuries - and remains in ICU