October 2019

Pentagon Analyst Is Charged in Leaks of Classified Reports

WASHINGTON — A Pentagon counterterrorism analyst shared classified information with two journalists for more than a year, one of whom he was dating, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. The analyst, Henry Kyle Frese, 30, was arrested on Wednesday at his office at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he has worked since January 2017,

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Dancing on Ice: Steps singer Ian ‘H’ Watkins to be in same-sex couple

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ian “H” Watkins publicly came out in 2007, a decade after Steps launched Dancing On Ice is to beat Strictly Come Dancing to having UK TV’s first same-sex dancing couple. Steps singer Ian “H” Watkins will be teamed up with professional skater Matt Evers in the next series of

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Top Barclays executives ‘hid £280m payment’, court hears

Image caption Roger Jenkins is one of the former Barclays executives accused of fraud Two top executives at Barclays Bank dishonestly hid a £280m payment to investors from Qatar, a court heard today. Prosecutors said the executives created a bogus agreement for advisory services so they could pay Qatari investors extra fees for investing. The

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Hunt: ‘The EU don’t understand British politics’

Jeremy Hunt has told the BBC he fears a “catastrophic failure in statecraft” will prevent a Brexit deal being reached. In an exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the former foreign secretary and Tory leadership contender said the EU does not understand the state of British politics and was beset by “bureaucratic inertia”. “If

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