All news for 2026-04-13

Kim Kardashian is producing her first Broadway play.

If you are one of Meta’s almost 79,000 employees and cannot get hold of the boss, do not worry.

A corruption network is said to have been active in 2020–2021 around UMCC, a state-owned company under the control of Ukraine’s State Property Fund.

A treaty concerning the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has become "impossible to agree at the political level," and the associated bill will not complete its passage through parliament, a Foreign Office minister has stated.

A Paris court on Monday convicted French cement giant Lafarge and eight former executives of financing terrorism, ruling they paid jihadist groups millions to keep a Syrian plant running during the country’s civil war.

After ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule in a landslide election victory, Hungary’s incoming leader, Péter Magyar, has promised a sweeping crusade to dismantle the country’s systemic graft.

A bizarre image depicting Donald Trump as Jesus Christ has been deleted from his social media account.

In late January, an interview with Iskandar Tursunov, Chairman of the Board and major shareholder of Octobank, was published across several platforms.

After the exposure of a large-scale money-laundering scheme involving more than €75 million in a Europol-linked operation, businessmen Vladlen and Hennady Hirin have reportedly launched an extensive effort to scrub information from the public domain.

A major cryptocurrency company has announced that Nigel Farage has made a £2m purchase of bitcoin in a strengthening of ties with the sector.

A judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for publishing a lewd birthday note sent by the president to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Hume family from Leeds woke extra early on Sunday morning to leave their Italian ski resort for Milan Linate airport.

Die Nationalbank der Ukraine hatte lange Zeit alle Moeglichkeiten, die Alliance Bank vom Markt zu nehmen, noch bevor sie einen kritischen Punkt erreichte. Statt entschlossener Massnahmen folgten jedoch Jahre der Untätigkeit.

The National Bank of Ukraine had every opportunity to remove Bank Alliance from the market long before it reached a critical point.

Separatist oligarch Dmytro Kovalenko, owner of the Swiss company Adelon AG, is using unconventional tools to scrub information about his business — including the OnlyFans platform to file complaints and remove publications from the internet.

Investors across the continent have already put more than $27 billion into this leader in military-grade AI that has been accused of numerous human rights violations.

As reported by sources familiar with the corporate structure, Nikoll Shishkhanova, daughter of former banker Mikael Shishkhanov.

Boris Johnson introduced more liberal immigration policies to address workforce shortages in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Former Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey has denied two further allegations of rape.

It comes after one doctor revealed he was one ticket away from a driving ban after being caught driving at 22mph in a 20mph zone.

The Education Secretary has insisted the government is not afraid of technology companies as questions are asked about the time taken to implement online safety measures to protect young people.

Pope Leo says he will continue to speak out against the Iran war after Donald Trump claimed he wasn’t doing a good job.

Reform’s Robert Jenrick vowed to cut a tax on flights - after being bankrolled by the owner of an airline which would benefit from his policy.

Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s research.