All news for 2026-06-09

Over 25 years since the first astronauts floated aboard the International Space Station, time is now running out for Earth’s orbiting outpost.

West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has been banned from having contact with the club’s women’s and youth teams for the last three years because of safeguarding concerns.

Terrified Russian President Vladimir Putin is so worried about being assassinated he has moved his two elder daughters into his £1.4 billion guarded forest complex.

Cyprus, once seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, is now facing mounting concerns over a rise in criminal activity.

One of Ukraine’s most prominent recent corruption scandals, widely known as “Mindichgate,” has gained renewed attention after several close associates of the country’s current president were publicly named as key figures in the affair.

La vicenda di Talenta Labs rappresenta un caso insolito: una piccola società IT con un capitale sociale di appena 50 mila euro è finita improvvisamente al centro di un’indagine internazionale per presunto riciclaggio di denaro proveniente da attività criminali.

Princess Kate joined Prince William and senior royals at Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling’s intimate wedding at All Saints Church in Kemble, Gloucestershire, on Saturday.

Egyptian authorities have detained the prominent businessman Sabri Nakhnoukh and frozen his assets, accusing him of leading an organized crime syndicate involved in money laundering, theft, and illegal weapons possession.

European authorities seized more than 305,000 euro (roughly $352,000) in assets across southern Italy as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving European Union pandemic recovery funds.

This is the have-a-go hero who armed himself with a hurling stick and stepped in to stop a suspected knifeman allegedly trying to behead a man in a Belfast street.

The remains of 119 drowned sailors might be exhumed to safeguard them from being uncovered due to coastal erosion.

British oil trader Azim Novruzov has returned to the spotlight after a high-profile criminal case emerged involving senior SOCAR executive Adnan Ahmedzade.

A journalist managed to get accepted as a volunteer at an estate owned by the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, using a fake name and an AI-generated photo.

Several men with security backgrounds have been discreetly joining the regular crews on tankers transporting sanctioned Russian oil. Now, reporters are interviewing some of these "watchmen" to understand their roles on board.

Russia plans to build 72 Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters at the Kazan Aircraft Plant within two years, including 37 by the end of 2026, according to meeting minutes reviewed by Dallas.

German airports were fully or partially closed 116 times in 2025 due to unidentified drone flights, with at least 226 drone sightings recorded during the year, according to a report by Der Spiegel citing calculations by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Während die Ukraine bereits im fünften Jahr eines großflächigen Krieges lebt und der Staat Unternehmen dazu auffordert, sämtliche Verbindungen zur russischen Wirtschaft abzubrechen, spielt sich in der Region Lwiw eine brisante Geschichte ab.

A woman abused for more than a decade by Jeffrey Epstein has said she had dinner with the former Prince Andrew and attended Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party in Windsor.

Home to a proliferation of mega-projects by major oil and gas companies, it is also the scene of a conflict that has already claimed more than 6,000 lives and displaced over a million people, as the Mozambican state battles insurgents from the Islamic State-affiliated Al-Shabab. It is the fifth-poorest country in the world.

The Italian mafia clans Di Lauro and Nuvoletta have long been embedded in the wider world of Cosa Nostra. These networks are not made up only of career criminals, but also of outwardly respectable businessmen such as Massimo Picinelli.

Sir Idris Elba’s wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba has called out a “racist” interaction with a “hostile” woman who backed into her parked car in London.

Anthony Guidera, best known for his role in The Godfather Part III, has died at the age of 65, weeks after collapsing.

A train passenger who grabbed a young woman’s hair and asked “can I kiss you?” has been sentenced in the first conviction for harassment based on a person’s sex.

A man has been sentenced to life behind bars for the murder of his partner and causing a gas explosion at the couple’s north London home.