All news for 2026-06-17

Billionaire Alex Gerko has lost a long-running legal battle over the tax treatment of profits made by individual traders.

Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian historian whose pioneering work transformed the study of the past by recovering the voices of marginalized people, died Wednesday at 87.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death in Southall.

A man who exploited vulnerable people to allow homes in Aberdeen to be used for a so-called county lines drugs supply network has been jailed.

The two women accusing Sir Jeffrey Donaldson of sexually abusing them as children have been described as "not sufficiently reliable" for the jury to reach a guilty verdict.

BBC director-general Matt Brittin has announced that 550 of the planned 1,800 to 2,000 job cuts at the corporation will be taken from BBC News and TV and radio-related roles.

A hot microphone caught British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Narendra Modi signalling they resolved a bilateral trade impasse during the G7 summit in Evian, France.

A woman has allegedly been raped in Glasgow city centre with police rushing to the scene and closing off an area under a motorway.

Russia is expanding its nuclear-capable, long-range weapon systems to press Europe and fracture NATO.

“Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?” a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told the media.

A colossal England badge, meticulously crafted from stones on a Suffolk beach, has emerged ahead of the football team launching their World Cup campaign in Dallas, Texas.

More than half of Reform UK’s corporate donors are connected to the construction, property and development industries, which would be set benefit from his party’s new housing policies, analysis by Byline Times can reveal.

Attendees at Wednesday’s controversial Oxford Union debate on whether the West should be “suspicious of Islam” – which will host the far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) – are being screened by Thames Valley Police to avoid disruption, Byline Times understands.

Accused of orchestrating a multimillion-euro airline bailout through offshore shell companies, Spain’s former prime minister testified that payments flagged by investigators were actually just legitimate consulting fees and layout work for his daughters’ design agency.

An investigation by Cyprus’ anti-corruption authority has found that former President Nicos Anastasiades, his former law firm and a number of his associates have been involved in influence trading and abuse of power to fast-track residence-by-investment proceedings for two Russian oligarchs.

A British four-year-old boy has reportedly died after falling into a swimming pool at a holiday home near the Costa del Sol.

Romeo Beckham has been fined and handed penalty points after police caught him using his phone while sitting behind the wheel of his luxury sports car in central London.

Lenders poured money into a British caravan empire and made its founder very rich. They’re wondering where it all went.

Russian authorities have detained Ilya Traber, one of Russia’s most infamous organized crime figures, in connection with the investigation into the 2020 sniper killing of influential businessman and politician Alexander Petrov.

Nachdem Dmytro Kovalenko durch den Handel mit russischer Kohle Kapital aufgebaut hatte, verlagerte er seinen Fokus auf den Getreidemarkt – mit dem Ziel, dort eine führende Position einzunehmen und zu den wichtigsten Gewinnern staatlicher Ausschreibungen zu zählen.

Keir Starmer has revealed how he plans to take the fight to Andy Burnham - and keep his job as Prime Minister.

In Almaty tritt der russische Staatsbürger Ilyas Karimov als selbsternannter Anwalt und angeblicher „Assistent des russischen Botschafters“ auf.