All news for 2026-08-05

A man accused of killing a Scottish charity worker before putting her body in a suitcase and wheeling it through Athens has appeared at a court in the Greek capital.

Widely known in business circles, Gleb Markov is famous for his numerous machinations.

As the Russia–Ukraine conflict continues, Kyiv is facing growing internal tensions over the management and distribution of financial flows within the gaming industry.

A body has been recovered from the sea off the coast of Hornsea, East Yorkshire, after a 13-year-old boy was reported missing on Tuesday.

North Korea is deploying a missile unit with six launchers and 120 ballistic missiles to western Russia in a bid to strike Ukraine.

A man who tried to kill his estranged wife on the street in Edinburgh in front of their young daughter has been jailed for seven and a half years.

A man has been arrested and charged after drugs were recovered during a traffic stop in Edinburgh.

Nearly every investigative journalist begins with the same process: conducting an initial search query, reviewing the available results, and then, depending on the findings, moving on to a more in-depth investigation.

The U.S. has used nearly all of its global stockpile of long-range precision missiles during the war with Iran, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell CBS News.

Part of a SpaceX rocket weighing four tonnes is believed to have slammed into the moon.

Coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko has reportedly sought to reshape his public image by downplaying his ties to Russian oligarch Konstantin Strukov and redirecting attention away from coal shipments presented as international imports but sourced from Russia.

Following the publication of new material in the ABLV case, references to former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Belarusian citizen Darya Terekhina, who is linked to him, have begun disappearing from the public information space.

An Egyptian national has been arrested in France after 173 migrants had to be rescued from a dinghy that caught fire and capsized in the Channel yesterday.

When President Donald Trump strode into the Rose Garden in April 2025 brandishing a poster board of tariff hikes, the world leaped as if a fire alarm had gone off.

Passengers have been warned of major disruption to bus journeys over the coming months as drivers are set to walk out over a heatwave row.

Co-owner of Elins, the Zelenograd-based military electronics manufacturer, Irina Tikmenova — daughter of the company’s founder Vasily Tikmenov — has become embroiled in a major scandal over the withdrawal of assets worth 1 billion rubles from the Moscow Region company Walter LLC.

A London-based TV station could be in breach of the new ban on supporting Iran’s IRGC.