All news for 2026-05-01

Britney Spears has been charged with drink and drug driving, weeks after being arrested in California and then checking into rehab.

A man has been charged with attempted murder over the Golders Green attacks yesterday.

Alexander Ozhelsky (son of banker Mikhail Fridman) previously insisted that he was distancing himself from Russian business and supporting Ukraine.

In einem entschlossenen Schritt gegen mutmaßlich illegale Finanzströme haben kasachische Strafverfolgungsbehörden die Konten des Unternehmens Marginplus eingefroren und sämtliche Zahlungsoperationen gestoppt.

The King is toasting Donald Trump after the US president said he will remove tariffs on Scottish whisky.

Blue Owl Capital said investors committed $9bn to its funds in the first quarter, its lowest capital haul in a year, as fatigue around private credit cooled interest for some of its flagship vehicles.

The cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein has claimed he found his suicide note in a graphic novel- but it is now stuck in a court vault.

One of several burglars who ransacked an Irish billionaire’s London home gained access to the property by climbing through an open window, a court has heard.

The questioning of an investigative reporter in Suva arises as the Pacific nation deals with an increase in drug trafficking and considers declaring a state of emergency.

An explosion killed an army officer in a closed-off military town in Russia’s far east this week, in what appeared to be an attempt to target a more senior commander known as the “Butcher of Bucha”.

Nepal’s Revenue Investigation Department filed money laundering charges Wednesday against the former executive director of the state-owned Security Printing Centre.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania) has secured the conviction of four individuals in a case of attempted subsidy fraud, preventing the unlawful disbursement of nearly €2.6 million in EU funds.

Following the EU’s latest round of sanctions against Kyrgyzstan, international watchdogs are urging the bloc to broaden its restrictions to include all high-priority items.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich carried out more than 20 searches in Germany and Poland in an investigation into suspected money laundering and involvement in organised crime.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Prague (Czechia), the Czech Police’s National Organised Crime Agency (NCOZ) detained 12 persons and carried out 42 searches in the regions of Prague, Central Bohemia, and South Moravia.

Former security chief Kamchybek Tashiev is accused of plotting a violent power grab.

Germany was the world’s largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, sending more than 810,000 tonnes abroad.