A coroner has warned drug mules that they are playing "Russian roulette" after a 24-year-old Brazilian man suffered a painful death when one of over 100 pellets of cocaine he had ingested burst on a flight from Lisbon to Dublin.

Ten people have been charged with plotting to smuggle drugs and phones into prisons using drones.

Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady are facing arraignment in New York after being arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into the US.