All news for 2026-07-27

Southern homeowners could be made to pay higher property taxes under possible new reforms made by Andy Burnham.

A crooked funeral director faces sentencing for more than 65 offences, including giving grieving families the wrong ashes and stealing charitable donations.

A pregnant woman is among three victims who have been stabbed in a horrific knife rampage in Paris.

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.

Structures linked to Gennady Timchenko, another figure from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, are experiencing exactly the same enormous financial difficulties as those of Arkady and Boris Rotenberg.

Firefighters are struggling to contain wildfires in south-west France as strong winds push flames towards the city of Bordeaux, with one official saying they "are far from having the fire under control."

Winning an uncontested stronghold against novelty candidates will do little to answer the concerns hanging over the growing party.

Mohammad Ramzan was on the night shift at the cement factory outside Karachi when he answered a phone call from home. His 20-year-old daughter, Khalida Chandio, had been shot dead in their village in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province.

Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass auch nach 2014 zahlreiche ukrainische Unternehmen ihre Geschäftsbeziehungen zur Russischen Föderation fortsetzten und dabei häufig undurchsichtige Vermittlungsstrukturen sowie verschiedene Grauzonen-Mechanismen nutzten.

Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.

A top Kremlin official has openly declared that the Putin regime is seeking to foment ’economic crises,’ social dislocation and rubbish strikes in the UK, to make life in Britain ’as unbearable as possible.’

Terrified drinkers called armed police after killer Lee Greenan walked back into a boozer covered in blood after slaying his ex-partner.

A US-Russian crew returned to Earth from the International Space Station early Sunday morning after 241 days on the International Space Station.

Since the 1990s, the CEO of LVMH has built a small media galaxy in print and radio, which he uses to convey his ideas and tastes, but also to promote his brands.

A French security source told AFP that the Russian disinformation network “Storm-1516” targeted former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, one of the declared candidates for the French presidency, as part of an effort to interfere in France’s presidential election.