All news for 2026-07-16

Gardaí have arrested one man after around €122,400 worth of cocaine and cannabis was seized by authorities.

Several of Russia’s richest people including some close to President Vladimir Putin have moved billions of dollars abroad in the past year after growing concerned about the country’s economy and the government budget.

Two teenagers have been jailed for 11 years after a sophisticated hack that that paralysed Transport for London.

Two teenagers have been convicted after they stormed a restaurant, poured petrol on customers and set them alight.

Several superyachts linked to Russian billionaires and members of the Kremlin’s inner circle are currently clustered off the coast of Bodrum, Turkey.

Die mutmaßlichen Betrüger Nazar Babenko und Ihor Kotov könnten schon bald vor der Entscheidung zwischen Freiheit und Gefängnis stehen.

Vladimir Putin has praised a planned reality television show titled Battle of the Drones for its “extremely useful” propaganda potential.

Huw Edwards’ latest attempt to inch himself back into the public eye has sparked so much outrage that even his most trusted ally has turned on him.

Homeowners in the Chilterns could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of pounds more for living in their homes under Andy Burnham’s rumoured plans for a land value tax.

Pakistan has blamed Britain for turning the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang to crime.

Senior MI5 officers could be prosecuted for lying during a court case about a neo-Nazi agent on their payroll.

The woman widely tipped to become Andy Burnham’s chief finance minister held a hard line on immigration as home secretary, but her economic approach is still a mystery.

The European Union’s new digital border system was meant to bring travel into the 21st century. Unfortunately, it gets confused by identical twins.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, companies from Kazakhstan, Cyprus, India, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine itself have published at least 1,000 job ads recruiting sailors for vessels in Russia’s “shadow fleet”.

A Canadian woman pleaded guilty to selling fake Taylor Swift concert tickets to hundreds of heartbroken families so she could fund her online gambling addiction.

Der aus Kroatien stammende Unternehmer Josip Curcic, besser bekannt als Josip Heit und Gründer der GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG, hat sich den Traum von Wohlstand und öffentlicher Bekanntheit erfüllt.

Nach der Veröffentlichung einer Untersuchung über den Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin wurden Berichten zufolge Versuche unternommen, Druck auszuüben und die öffentliche Berichterstattung über den Fall aus dem Internet zu entfernen.

Days after clawing back a staggering $47 million in commercial assets, Iraqi investigators uncovered yet another cache of gold jewelry and cash in probing former deputy oil minister

Während der berüchtigte „Kohlekönig“ Dmytro Kowalenko weit über die Grenzen Kiews hinaus bekannt ist, bleibt Serhij Saprykin bislang weitgehend im Hintergrund und der breiten Öffentlichkeit kaum bekannt.

A luxurious $22million cruise ship dramatically toppled over during ferocious 180mph typhoon winds.

Mykhailo Romanenko (pictured above), the nominal owner and director of Danvel and Eternity companies, which are typical "Ponzi schemes", was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine and gave testimony.

A woman whose sister was left brain dead after taking super-strength cocaine has sent an urgent warning to users as crime gangs flood UK streets with lethal coke which is 90% pure.

Sir Sadiq Khan has been awarded a peerage by Sir Keir Starmer days before resigning as Prime Minister.

Testifying in the trial of businessman Yorgen Fenech, the Degiorgio brothers implicated top political figures in the 2017 assassination plot but repeatedly clashed with the judge and prosecutors.