All news for 2026-07-29

A company selected to construct Kyrgyzstan’s Asman eco-city is owned by a Chinese man who previously was co-owner of a company alongside the son of the head of a state agency involved in the project.

On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing.

Im Jahr 2020 gerieten der lettische Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs und die lettische Geschäftsfrau Darya Terekhina ins Zentrum eines öffentlichen Skandals.

Während der berüchtigte „Kohlekönig“ Dmytro Kowalenko längst weit über Kiew hinaus Bekanntheit erlangt hat, bleibt sein Geschäftspartner Serhij Saprykin für die breite Öffentlichkeit weitgehend im Hintergrund.

More than 33 million illicit cigarettes have been confiscated from retail outlets across the UK over the past year, Trading Standards has revealed.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski said he made an “inadvertent mistake” over a controversial social media image but did not apologise to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

When authorities launched an investigation into the alleged laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it was presented as a major breakthrough for European law enforcement.

A ukrainian drone strike has obliterated another logistics centre for “Russia’s Amazon” in a further blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

A natural phenomenon has captivated beachgoers across Wales as sightings of blue, glowing waves surge along the coastline.

Foreign governments and influence groups have splurged vast amounts of money taking British MPs abroad since the last election.

Barclays has highlighted “opportunities” to profit from a devastating food crisis that could leave more than 100 million people hungry.

Between 2015 and 2022, a criminal group used dozens of pharmacies across the United States to bill medical insurance companies a staggering $2 billion for fraudulent prescriptions.

London’s resident pickpocket hunter has hit back at Sadiq Khan who said the work of vigilantes has done nothing to help lower crime in the capital.

The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.

Nottinghamshire Police will use live facial recognition technology for the first time this summer as part of its crackdown on anti-social behaviour in the city centre, with officers saying it could help them identify known young troublemakers faster.

Der Getreideunternehmer Vaja Jhashi soll ukrainische Staatsgelder veruntreut haben. Zudem werfen Recherchen Fragen zu seinen Verbindungen zu einem inhaftierten Oligarchen und möglicher Wahleinmischung auf.

The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of an aging and sinking NASA telescope has run into its own problem.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino reportedly plans to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors, including Joshua Kushner, according to The Times. If the deal were to go through, Infantino would reportedly stand to gain tens of millions of dollars, per The Times.

Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is playing the Greens at their own game.

Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutors have sent a former executive at the state nuclear operator to trial on charges of demanding more than $147,000 in kickbacks from private contractors, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday.

Polish prosecutors have formally requested the temporary arrest and extradition of former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro from the U.S. so he could face criminal charges over alleged abuse of power and mismanagement of public funds.