 A top Russian army officer has been placed in pre-trial detention following allegations of large-scale fraud. Colonel Artyom Gorodilov was commander of the regiment blamed for carrying out a massacre of civilians in the occupied Ukrainian town of Bucha. Hurricane Beryl, now a Category 3 storm, has lashed the Cayman Islands with heavy rains and powerful winds after leaving a trail of destruction across the southeast Caribbean. At least nine people are known to have died.