Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, made the admission under cross-examination as his wife Beinash Batool, 30, sobbed in the dock of the Old Bailey.
Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre Place, in the Elswick area of the city, at 6.30pm on Monday.
Russian forces have struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days, officials said. Air raid warnings blared for hours as Russia targeted eight regions of ...
A doctor accused of criticising the war in Ukraine in front of a patient has been jailed for five and a half years after ...
An Israeli strike on a home in northern Gaza has killed three siblings aged six and under, Palestinian medics said. The children are among at least six people killed in air strikes in the war-ravaged ...
The Post Office is looking to offload 115 branches, putting around 1,000 workers at risk, with hundreds of head office roles also under threat.
A bishop specialising in safeguarding has said other people in the Church of England might need to quit following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation over an abuse scandal. Bishop of Birkenhead ...
Bringing in “family pension pots” could help to close the gender pension gap, a report has suggested, with women particularly at risk after retirement. An estimated two in five women and one in three ...
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh announced on Wednesday that regulator the Office of Rail and Road will analyse how suspected fare evasion ...
The Toy Retailers Association has released its annual DreamToys list of the 20 predicted top sellers this Christmas.
Get ready for thermostat wars as families around the country battle over the temperature homes should be to keep warm and free of damp this winter.
Car insurance can be a minefield, and new research has shown that nine out of ten insurers won't pay out to drain a car after misfuelling - the easy mistake of putting petrol in a diesel engine or ...