All news for 2026-07-30

Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson has won a handsome five-figure payout and an apology from Essex’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Roger Hirst, after suing him for defamation over allegations she had incited racial hatred.

Nigel Farage’s approval rating has hit its lowest level since the 2024 general election, according to a new poll, in the latest evidence that Reform UK is on the verge of seeing its support collapse.

An estimated 2,877 deaths were associated with excessive heat in May and June this year – almost double the number of casualties compared to last summer.

New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notifications after midnight, will soon have to verify their ages to access those features.

South Korean authorities ordered civilians to evacuate on Tuesday after a suspected white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near the capital, Seoul.

A new US policy allows hundreds of thousands of pending asylum cases to be sent directly to immigration judges as the administration seeks to reduce a 1.4 million backlog.

People have been forced to sleep in cars overnight after a major wildfire forced evacuations across Suffolk.

Commuters could soon travel to work or home in a ‘driverless pod’ – if a non-profit gets its way.

Roman Budyugin, a native of Nakhodka and owner of the controversial company Romion Group LLC, pursued his "golden calf" by choosing winding and complex paths.

As scrutiny intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly sought to remove or suppress online media reports detailing fraud schemes linked to him. Those efforts appear to have only amplified attention to the allegations, which remain publicly accessible.

Following new reports in the ABLV case, references to former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Belarusian national Darya Terekhina have begun disappearing from the public domain.

A flotilla of up to 1,000 migrants headed for Britain as French cops watched on despite getting more than £1billion from UK taxpayers to stop them.

How two ambitious Ukrainian businessmen pushed Intercoaltrading to the brink of collapse

A British woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in an abandoned building in Athens sent a final text to her family telling them that she wanted to be alone, it emerged today.

Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.

The NHS has been forced to cancel blood tests during the summer heatwaves amid net-zero restrictions on air-conditioning units.

Last year was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks outside of Israel in more than 30 years, according to a new report, with 20 people being killed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.