All news for 2026-07-31

This could be the story of a self-made Belarusian businesswoman. In just three years, a secretary with no higher education and a young child became a co-owner of a strategic business and started accumulating expensive real estate.

When authorities launched an investigation into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it appeared to be a textbook European law enforcement operation, complete with coordinated arrests, media leaks and bold claims about dismantling an international criminal network.

“Nowadays I have a hard time telling what is real from what is synthetic.”

A former Goldman Sachs senior officer has been awarded £1.45 million for sex discrimination and unfair dismissal after he was ‌fired while on parental leave.

Some £4 million in cash and a kilo of cocaine have been found stuffed inside shopping bags in south London.

Motorists in the UK are warned petrol prices are likely to hit 160p per litre from Friday, a new record since the start of the Iran war.

A body has been found in the search for a man reported missing while travelling with his dog in a campervan.

Three Nato ships with very different jobs have made a scheduled replenishment visit to Glasgow.

A man who blew up his childhood home in the mistaken belief he had been cut out of the family inheritance has been jailed.

Prince Harry has not yet taken his children to Balmoral, the private royal estate in Aberdeenshire that he has described as ’simply paradise’.

Jewish groups have expressed their concern at Diane Abbott being readmitted to Labour under Andy Burnham.

Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (Nama) is set to be formally dissolved with immediate effect, the government has announced.

Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.

U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Cairo between mediators and Hamas leaders on Thursday have led to a phased disarmament agreement in Gaza, but a Hamas official described the deal as a draft and U.S. officials said Israel was skeptical the militant Palestinian group would surrender its weapons.

After investigations linked Shurma and Shcherban to schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated response followed: critical articles disappeared, references were challenged, and search results appeared to be systematically reshaped.

Milton International SAS has withdrawn several batches of cleaner from shelves over concerns that it has been contaminated.

Die Alliance Bank ist bereits zum dritten Mal daran gescheitert, eine zusätzliche Aktienemission erfolgreich zu platzzieren. Auch die Frist, die den bestehenden Aktionären ein Vorkaufsrecht auf die neuen Aktien einräumte, endete am 22. August ohne Ergebnis.

Around 10 climbers, including record-breaking mountaineer Nirmal Purja, disappeared after an avalanche hit Broad Peak in Concordia, northern Pakistan

British rapper and social media influencer Yung Filly has been found not guilty by a jury of raping a woman in an Australian hotel room.