Billionaire boss of Le Monde newspaper was a teenage spy who hacked President Mitterrand’s mobile

Billionaire boss of Le Monde newspaper, 52, admits he was a teenage spy who once hacked the mobile phone of President Mitterrand for his security service bosses Xavier Niel, 52, was caught hacking Canal Plus aged 17 after quitting education The Directorate for Territorial Surveillance hired him to harvest data on Renault He also hacked … Read more

Teenage police cadet, 14, is praised for making TikTok film about domestic abuse during lockdown

A young police cadet has starred in a TikTok video – appearing upset and with fake bruises – to help young people feeling vulnerable to domestic abuse during lockdown get help.  Kaitlyn McGoldrick, 14, from Cleveland, in north east England, stars in two short videos illustrating how domestic abuse victims can make a ‘silent’ 999 … Read more

Teenage pair charged with murder of NHS worker David Gomoh who was stabbed to death last week

Teenage pair charged with murder of NHS worker David Gomoh who was stabbed to death days after his father died from coronavirus Two teenagers have been charged with the death of NHS worker David Gomoh The 24-year-old was attacked near his home in Newham, east London on April 26 18-year-old Muhammad Jalloh and a 16-year-old … Read more

Mummy of a teenage girl dripping in expensive jewellery discovered

The remains of a teenage girl who died 3,500 years ago have been found in a tomb in Egypt, covered in jewels that may have been a bridal dowry.   Spanish archaeologists found the remains of the girl during a dig near the city of Luxor in Egypt and say she would have been 15 or … Read more

Judge rules that Tommy Robinson ‘accused teenage Syrian refugee of gang attack’

Tommy Robinson accused a teenage Syrian refugee of a gang attack on a young girl and also said the youngster threatened to stab another child, a judge has ruled.   The High Court ruled on the meaning of the English Defence League founder’s comments about the boy who was filmed being attacked in a school playground. … Read more

Can Malta perform a miracle? A mother and teenage daughter spend three nights in Valletta

Last Easter in Venice’s Guggenheim Museum, my daughter Deia, then aged 13, announced she’d had enough culture for one morning, was fed up with my ‘selfishness’ and wasn’t prepared to do what I wanted a minute longer. ‘I want to go shopping,’ she insisted mutinously. So we trudged to a grimy area near the station … Read more