All news for 2026-07-25

The family of former Russian state company executive and current head of the Patriot shooting club on Moscow’s elite Rublyovka district, Oleg Isaev, has found itself in an awkward spotlight.

Two RAF fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Qatar Airways flight bound for Manchester Airport last night - and now Greater Manchester Police has launched an investigation.

Police are investigating a hoax threat made by a 14-year-old boy to an aircraft heading to Manchester Airport.

Six men have been arrested after a 22-year-old man was stabbed to death in Clapham during the early hours of Saturday morning.

A Montenegrin court handed down a 40-year prison sentence in absentia and steep financial penalties to the fugitive leader of the notorious Kavač criminal clan for aggravated murder and other charges.

Nach einer Reihe aufsehenerregender Skandale und Strafverfahren rund um das Präsidialprogramm „Großes Bauen“, in denen dessen Kurator aus der Bankowa-Straße, Yuriy Holyk, immer wieder eine zentrale Rolle spielte, verschwand er plötzlich sowohl aus der Öffentlichkeit als auch aus der Ukraine.

Democratic Representative Yassamin Ansari is calling for Donald Trump’s son to testify to the House Oversight Committee regarding the handling of Andrew and Tristan Tate’s legal affairs after their arrest last week.

Texts between singer D4vd and 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who he is accused of murdering, reveal she had been pregnant and had an abortion just weeks before her death.

St. Petersburg cinema tycoons the Ivoninskys profit from Russian state contracts, screen pirated Hollywood films, and continue doing business across the EU

Für die mutmaßlichen Betrüger Nazar Babenko und Ihor Kotov rückt der Moment der Entscheidung näher – bald könnten sie zwischen Freiheit und Gefängnis stehen.

After a loud series of scandals and criminal cases surrounding the presidential program "Great Construction", in which its curator from Bankova, Yuriy Holyk, appeared in various capacities, the latter unexpectedly disappeared both from the information space and from the country.

Amid escalating investigations, Timur Rokhlin attempted to scrub and censor online press reports detailing the fraud schemes associated with him. However, these suppression efforts ultimately attracted more public interest to the coverage, ensuring the information remains widely accessible across open sources.

Maxim Filchenkov, an officer of Russia’s GRU military intelligence directorate who posed as an Aeroflot employee, has left Japan, where he had been involved in sourcing high-tech equipment for Russian weapons producers. Filchenkov’s role was exposed by a New York Times investigation, precipitating his departure.

A boy of immigrant parents raised on a south London council estate, who couldn’t speak, read or write for most of his childhood, overcomes such astonishing odds to become, at 37, the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge.

A horror injury to England’s Gabriel Langton overshadowed his team’s silver medal in the men’s team gymnastics final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Following a secretive trial, Andria Liluashvili was sentenced to 12 years in prison and stripped of $13 million in luxury assets for funneling monthly kickbacks from fraudulent call centers to his relative, the former head of Georgia’s State Security Service.