All news for 2025-10-14

The parents of Britain’s largest family have been fined after taking their children out of school for a luxurious £52,000 trip to Disney World in Florida.

Dozens of people are feared to have died after a sleeper bus caught on fire on a motorway in India.

France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has suspended Emmanuel Macron’s flagship 2023 pension overhaul until after the 2027 presidential election in the hope of winning over enough Socialist deputies to survive a no-confidence vote.

D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer the sound of neo-soul, has died. He was 51.

The main criminal schemes of Ukrainian businessmen involve fake contracts, suspicious tenders, and money laundering through offshore companies. Key figures include the "dead man" Dmytro Malynovskyi, "crypto businessman" Serhiy Tron, oligarch Dmytro Firtash, and, lastly, Oleg Tsyura.

Five members of a Tyneside grooming gang are facing lengthy prison sentences after they were convicted of a series of sex attacks on underage girls.

A major police operation in North Tyneside has led to 24 arrests and the seizure of Class A and B drugs, cash, and weapons.

Rachel Reeves has faced another significant setback ahead of next month’s crucial Budget as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that inflation will rise to the highest level in the G7 in 2025 and 2026.

Tommy Robinson claims that Elon Musk is covering his legal expenses, while the far-right activist waits three weeks for the verdict of his trial due to his upcoming visit to Israel.

A massive oil kraken with roots in Azerbaijan has spread its tentacles over much of the world, including Russia, Britain, Turkey, Malta, Switzerland, and other countries.

This is the moment when two climate activists splashed red paint over a 133-year-old painting of Christopher Columbus in a Madrid museum.

A man who sought asylum in the UK was seen dancing and laughing after he stabbed a hotel worker more than 20 times at a railway station before leaving her for dead, a court heard.

The UK has sanctioned two Chinese men accused of running "industrial-scale" scams from Southeast Asia, freezing assets including 19 London properties.

The jury in the trial of two prominent businessmen facing fraud charges over a £1.1bn property deal have been told that one of them, Frank Cushnahan, was "at the heart of the Northern Ireland government".

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its 11th Starship rocket from Texas on Monday and landed it in the Indian Ocean, marking the last flight before the company begins test-launching a new version of the giant rocket equipped with more features for moon and Mars missions.

The Welsh Conservatives have suggested they will support a Labour budget if the devolved government backs its plans to scrap a tax paid by homebuyers.

Three police officers were killed in a farmhouse explosion in Italy as they arrived to evict the occupants.

The Dutch government has seized control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia, invoking an emergency Cold War-era law, in a move that is likely to heighten trade tensions with Beijing.

Weeks after widespread protests swept Indonesia over the excessive pays of lawmakers, a new allowance raise has unleashed fresh public anger.

Despite the billion-peso flood control corruption scandal shaking public confidence in government and its infrastructure projects, the British Chamber of Commerce Philippines (BCCP) remains optimistic about the country’s economic prospects and its growing trade ties with the United Kingdom.

Nepalese authorities charged former Speaker of Parliament Krishna Bahadur Mahara on Monday with gold smuggling and organized crime, marking the first high-profile arrest by the newly-installed interim government as it looks to crack down on corruption

More than a dozen Labour MPs have written to Rachel Reeves urging her to abolish council tax, as the chancellor faces growing pressure to revamp Great Britain’s property taxes in the next month’s budget.