All news for 2024-11-29

Last week, Mr Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, made the winning bid at the Sotheby’s auction in New York.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he is prepared to end the war in Ukraine in exchange for Nato membership.

The restored interior of Notre Dame Cathedral has been unveiled for the first time after more than five years of reconstruction work.

Syrian rebels have breached Aleppo for the first time since 2016 following a shock offensive earlier this week, according to war monitors and fighters.

The Bank of England warned on Friday that higher trade barriers could hit global growth and feed uncertainty about inflation, potentially causing volatility in financial markets and pushing up borrowing costs for businesses and consumers.

The Belfast Irish-language rap group Kneecap won a legal challenge against the British government on Friday over a decision by the previous Conservative administration to refuse it an arts grant.

Britain’s health security agency (UKHSA) said on Friday another case of the new mpox variant clade Ib has been detected in England, the fifth case confirmed in the country in recent weeks

A global police operation has shut down one of the largest illegal streaming services, used by millions worldwide.

The email was sent by an officer with all recipients’ email addresses mistakenly visible to each other. The scandal involved various figures in Westminster being targeted with flirtatious messages.

The cost of a TV licence is to rise by £5 to £174.50 in 2025, the government has announced.

Police have launched an appeal to find a TikTok influencer who is wanted for failing to appear at court.

A series of human errors caused a New Zealand navy ship under the command of a former senior Royal Navy officer to plough into a reef off the coast of Samoa, where it caught fire and sank.

A police officer who sparked 2,000 complaints after ramming a cow on a road is returning to frontline duty after an internal investigation cleared him of wrongdoing.

A massive lorry fire has closed a major motorway today causing misery for drivers.

A 25-year-old mum who died after her e-bike was rammed by a Land Rover in a hit-and-run has been pictured for the first time.

Heidi Alexander has been named as the new Transport Secretary after Louise Haigh quit on Friday morning.

The Walton-on-Thames raid is believed to be linked to a similar incident in Kingston, and was witnessed by several locals who said the suspects drove into and looted the shopfront

The "sewage king" of Moscow, Aleksandr Ponomarenko, has built an international business empire using funds siphoned from the budget.