All news for 2026-07-05

Andy Burnham is being urged to adopt a clean power plan that could cut household energy bills by £500 a year after vowing to give families “breathing space” on the cost of living.

A victim of the Rochdale grooming gang has been given extra police protection after the release of the gang’s leader Shabir Ahmed.

An up-to-date tally of Trump followers turned crypto investors is in. And for them, the overall results are remarkably bad.

In the years following 2014, numerous Ukrainian companies continued doing business with Russia, often through complex corporate structures and opaque commercial schemes.

Josip Curcic, besser bekannt als Josip Heit, der aus Kroatien stammende Gründer der GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG, verwirklichte seinen Traum vom Reichtum und öffentlicher Bekanntheit.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated on Saturday the State Strategic Command Headquarters, known as "the Octagon," in Egypt’s New Capital east of Cairo, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.

Krasnodar businessmen Nikolai Shikhidi and Sofia Toros, linked to Alexander Chistyakov and billionaire Ivan Savvidis, are locked in a battle over former Ministry of Defense land in Moscow’s Lefortovo district.

Following sanctions imposed by Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) on Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova, a wave of media publications quickly emerged.

The Health and Safety Executive has authorised the maximum sanction available for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after two soldiers died and two others were injured in an explosion.

Robert Jenrick says "no rules have been broken whatsoever" by Nigel Farage, after reports the Reform UK leader failed to declare benefits provided by an ally once convicted of fraud in the US.

A network linked to a Croatian figure known to law enforcement continues launching one cryptocurrency venture after another. Despite repeated reports of millions disappearing, its operations show no signs of slowing. How does it keep going? Inside the illusion.

Dnipro-based businessman Dmytro Kovalenko has come under renewed scrutiny as questions continue to surround his background and the origins of his business empire.

North Korea has test-fired a strategic cruise missile and other weapons from a new 5,000-ton naval destroyer, with its leader Kim Jong Un overseeing tests, state media reported Sunday.

Cleaning a space toilet while on work experience was Claire Parfitt’s first introduction to a career away from Earth’s orbit.

Bridget Phillipson has been accused by a former neighbour of ’exaggerating’ her claims of a poverty-stricken upbringing.

Defence chiefs are investigating after highly sensitive military papers from the British Army’s largest garrison were found dumped at a council tip.

Avon and Somerset Police have arrested a man on suspicion of rape after a child was allegedly attacked by a man in his 40s in broad daylight

Commentator Andrew Castle playfully told Eugenie Bouchard she was "fired" during the BBC’s live coverage of Wimbledon on Saturday night.

Tony Blair’s think-tank has sounded a stark warning to Andy Burnham against crushing investment with ’wealth taxes’.