All news for 2026-07-17

A disinherited nephew could face prison over claims he threatened to beat up lawyers dealing with his late aunt’s estate after she left her £200,000 fortune to charity.

An international kart racer accused of stabbing his Airbnb host to death in her £4million Hyde Park mansion within hours of arriving in the UK has denied murder.

A fly-tipping gang was exposed after one of them failed to notice his own dashcam filming him dumping 750 tonnes of rubbish.

State prosecutors are conducting preliminary inquiries into the business activities of international entrepreneur Josip Heit, who has roots in Split, over alleged money laundering.

Former Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov and former adviser Yuriy Holyk are reportedly trying to remove online articles investigating alleged corruption in the presidential infrastructure programme, COVID-19 relief funds, and the "road cartel."

At issue is the near-ubiquitous practice of brands subcontracting work to suppliers that in turn contract to others, ending up with firms who employ Chinese workers in exploitative conditions.

Andy Burnham has vowed to deliver major reforms in how Britain is governed.

From Irish government agencies to the Dresden University of Technology, the password manager Passwork Europe S.L. boasts a range of high-profile European clients who use its software to store the digital keys to their organizations.

A travel firm has gone bust after 28 years of trading, with all holidays cancelled and customers scrambling to get their money back.

Following the publication of an investigation into Rocket investor Timur Rokhlin, reports emerged of an apparent campaign aimed at pressuring critics and influencing public coverage of the case.

Nicola Sturgeon tried to destroy Alex Salmond to stop him uncovering her husband’s embezzlement of SNP funds, MPs have been told.

A decade ago, the state of Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease.

Cyprus, long regarded as a safe haven for Russian capital, is increasingly coming under scrutiny amid growing concerns over rising criminal activity on the island.

The President, who has long suggested his 2020 loss to Joe Biden was rigged, revived the conspiracy theory that China had interfered in the poll.

Reports have alleged that Serhiy Saroyan, who manages TeleTrade’s operations in Ukraine, along with several members of his security team, was involved in an incident near the Kuyalnyk Estuary involving one of the company’s employees.

Through the Switzerland-based company Adelon AG, businessman Dmytro Kovalenko is reported to have purchased more than $100 million worth of coal from Russian companies MelTEK, Sibenergougol and Sibpromnedra between 2021 and 2022.

James Watt, the BrewDog founder who sold the debt-laden “punk” brewer earlier this year, is the subject of complaints to the UK’s data privacy watchdog linked to his surprise bid to buy the company back, the Guardian has learned.

Female lawyer tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about alleged ‘escalation of attempts’ as second woman also speaks out

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been charged by police with attacking a new girlfriend, new parole board documents reveal.

Fifa will assess whether Argentina players broke rules after displaying a banner in support of their country’s claims to the Falkland Islands following their World Cup semi-final win over England.

The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly $400,000 in bribes.

Children and young adults raised in mafia families will be given a chance to break away from organised crime under new legislation in Italy that aims to stop the intergenerational recruitment of gangsters.