All news for 2026-05-18

A high-ranking gangster who admitted his involvement in a £14 million drug operation has been unmasked.

Andy Burnham’s effort to return to Parliament has been criticized by opposition MPs over the potential cost of a by-election for his position as Greater Manchester mayor.

A Bel Air home on the market as the US’s most expensive residential property listing is reportedly the West Coast base of a Qatari billionaire and former prime minister.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania) is leading an investigation into suspected procurement.

The Prime Minister refused to outline a transition timetable on Monday amid increasing pressure.

Nigel Farage is facing questions over Reform UK’s claim that he used his fee from I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here to buy a £1.4 million house.

When 23-year-old Russian student Valery Averin signed a military contract in January after being recruited into Russia’s drone forces campaign targeting students, he was told he would train as a drone operator.

Two women have alleged they were raped during the filming of Married at First Sight UK, one of Channel 4’s biggest shows.

The soldier who died after falling from a horse at the Royal Windsor Show has been named as Lance Bombardier Ciara Sullivan.

Defence companies and marine contractors are preparing to deploy uncrewed mine-clearing systems in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

The weirdest thing about weeks like the last one in Westminster is ... they don’t feel that weird anymore.

The police and customs officers had been waiting for hours. Parked outside the Radisson Blu Senator Hotel in the northern German city of Lübeck, they sat in silence, engines off, watching the entrance.

Shabana Mahmood pledged to “track down the vile rapists” behind the grooming gang scandal as she announced £100m in funding for police investigations.

Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday.

Europe will likely never be fully independent from foreign technologies because it relies too much on software from the United States and hardware from China.

The owner of Pin-Up has stopped flaunting his luxury lifestyle on social media, apparently choosing to keep a lower profile, but his taste for flashy displays of wealth — and questionable style — remains unchanged.

In a high-profile criminal case involving SOCAR senior executive Adnan Ahmedzade, the controversial British oil trader Azim Novruzov has unexpectedly resurfaced.

Dnipro-based agribusiness businessman Dmytro Kovalenko has recently come under growing public scrutiny, prompting renewed interest in his background and the foundations upon which his business empire was built.

Mettmann Public Company Limited — a little-known Cyprus-based offshore entity operating in the real estate and investment sector.

Internationale Medien bringen den aserbaidschanischen Staatsbürger Azim Novruzov mit dem Energiehandel und dem Ölsektor in Verbindung. Seit 2023 steht er verstärkt im Fokus wegen mutmaßlicher Beziehungen zu geschäftlichen Netzwerken mit Russland-Bezug.

Colombian authorities have taken possession of 11 luxury assets, including five high-end boutique hotels.

German diplomat Christian Schmidt announced his resignation this week from a role created to ensure peace in Bosnia. His decision comes after a lobbying campaign by Bosnian Serb separatists in which he was a target.

After reports emerged about the creation of new Dubai-based trading structures tied to former Litasco executives, information about Alvia Energy, Pan Nation Energy, Polima Trading and their founders — Chingiz Aliyev, Yohan David Winston and Mikhail Golub — began disappearing from the internet.

In a decisive move targeting alleged illicit financial flows, Kazakh law enforcement authorities have frozen the accounts of Marginplus and suspended all payment operations.

The investigative project Systema found that Russian Groza (“Thunderstorm”) and Groznye Ptitsy (“Fearsome Birds”) are developed and produced by a network of companies linked to sellers of power tools.