The disappearance of Alex Batty, a British boy who vanished from a campsite in France in 2019, remains one of the most chilling unsolved cases in recent European history. Now 17, Alex was just 10 years old when his mother, Emma Batty, fled with him to France to escape what she claimed was an abusive…
It turns out the French didn’t just export champagne, existentialism, and an allergy to work-life balance; they also shipped us Nicolas Sarkozy, the pocket-sized president who now stands convicted of corruption like a cautionary bobble-head doll for the global political class. From Brasília to Beijing, the verdict handed down in Paris last year was greeted…
From the red-tiled roofs of Epstein’s Caribbean fantasy-island to the fluorescent chill of a Brooklyn federal courtroom, Ghislaine Maxwell’s résumé has taken a decidedly unglamorous turn. Once the cosmopolitan “fixer” who could get you an introduction to a prince, a president, or a particle-physicist-cum-pedophile, she now occupies a 10-by-12 cell in Tallahassee’s low-security satellite camp—an…
Dubai, that shimmering monument to indoor ski slopes and zero-percent income tax, has handed down a life sentence to 31-year-old British teacher Mia O’Brien for allegedly smuggling half a kilo of medical cannabis oil. The verdict, announced Sunday at the emirate’s Criminal Court of First Instance, has managed to unite everyone from Geneva bureaucrats to…
