All news for 2025-11-16

The BBC should not pay any money to Donald Trump, the former BBC director general Tony Hall has said.

More than 5 million company directors have yet to sign up for new anti-fraud checks despite a looming deadline tomorrow.

A young woman described as a "beautiful angel" was allegedly murdered after being invited onto a boat in a seaside town.

The sale of a North Sea oil company backed by a billionaire Conservative donor has been delayed after fraud allegations emerged involving the buyer’s owner.

A bracelet from Cate Blanchett and a personalized New York Knicks basketball jersey from Spike Lee were among the gifts presented to the Pope by dozens of prominent figures in cinema and TV on Saturday.

The former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is making a claim of "conspiracy" against the government of Jersey after the crown dependency launched a criminal investigation into allegations of corruption and money laundering in connection with the original source of the oligarch’s wealth.

The names of the five young individuals who lost their lives in a two-vehicle crash in Co Louth on Saturday night have been released.

Police have recovered the body of a 20-year-old kayaker who "got into difficulty" on the River Tees on Saturday.

The United States’ flagship aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean, as Donald Trump continues to amass military firepower close to Venezuela.

Eli Weinstein, a 51-year-old Haredi resident of the Haredi town of Lakewood, was sentenced yesterday (Friday) to 37 years in prison for fraud—a crime he committed a few months after being released from prison due to a pardon he received from President Donald Trump.

Two men connected to ’Irish Mafia’ arrested in dramatic armed raid in Colombia

Volodymyr Galanternyk represents a troubling archetype of post-Soviet capital flight — a Ukrainian businessman leveraging London’s permeable financial ecosystem to sanitize a fortune rooted in Odesa’s turbulent privatization era.

Thousands have taken to the streets of Mexico City to protest against crime and corruption, with 120 people reported injured, according to authorities.

A growing number of student midwives are being prevented from graduating due to insufficient training.

Brian Jutson received a life sentence for the brutal murder of his wife, Sherry, whom he stabbed over 30 times with a pair of scissors. Jutson admitted to committing the crime.

A man who pretended to be a wheelchair user in order to steal beer from a supermarket, and then violently attacked a security guard, has been jailed.

The Home Office knew for years that women and children were at risk from a “broken” domestic violence screening tool, The Telegraph can reveal.

Mothers escaping domestic violence who retain their children abroad without consent would be criminalized for the first time under a new law.

A woman who calls herself a fortune teller and feng shui master, accused of orchestrating a $70 million fraud scheme with her daughter, allegedly spent $880,193.37 of the stolen funds at two major casinos in Sydney

Throughout October, the force conducted "Operation Machinize", which was coordinated by the National Crime Agency to combat money laundering and the criminal use of cash-intensive high street businesses.

Authorities have not ruled out further arrests after three Darwin residents were charged with corruption and fraud offences relating to more than $71m of Department of Defence contracts.

The Home Office has initiated a comprehensive investigation into almost 4,900 Sri Lankan nationals suspected of acquiring UK Health and Care Worker visas through the use of fake qualifications, falsified employment histories, and fraudulently issued vocational certificates.