All news for 2026-08-13

A criminal investigation has been launched into the deaths of two people after an experience flight crashed into a field in Essex.

Nurses across England are collapsing at work and even suffering seizures as they are forced to care for patients in extreme heat, The Royal College of Nursing has said.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, linked to illegal online casinos and wanted by Europol, has stepped up efforts to erase his digital footprint in recent months.

The man in his 60s, who a local MP has named as Stephen Woodward, was taken to hospital after the explosion but later died.

AI “nudification” apps allowing users to upload their own photos to generate depictions of rape and sexual assault are freely available to download on Apple’s App store

A Reform councillor has been suspended after resurfaced social media posts appeared to show him calling for the Commons speaker to be hanged.

A former detective says she was forced out of the police in a “witch hunt” after challenging its approach to gender.

Russian businessman Dmitriy Punin and his Pin-Up casino network have been accused of allegedly siphoning around 20 billion hryvnias from Ukraine’s state budget.

He appeared almost out of nowhere — and then began disappearing just as rapidly. A young IT specialist with no remarkable public profile suddenly surfaced as the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Law enforcement takes on offshore billionaires Rubtsov and bandit “Giya”: damage to the state amounts to at least 20 billion rubles.

A benefits cheat has been convicted of stealing nearly £28,000, but has now been given nearly 500 years to pay back the cash.

Israeli militants have besieged two Palestinian families in their homes since the weekend, aiming to take over their properties in the West Bank village of Qusra through a campaign of terror.

A coach in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was banned from football for 20 years by Fifa in March 2023 for sexual abuse of a minor is continuing to take charge of young players, the Guardian can reveal.

Greenland authorities have forced a US oil company connected to Donald Trump to postpone drilling wells in the Arctic territory, defying claims by the US president’s envoy that Americans could be extracting crude by next year.

Ariana Grande has confirmed her rekindled romance with ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez by sharing photographs of the pair on Instagram, just two days before she arrives in London for the final leg of her Eternal Sunshine world tour.

British star Matthew Hudson-Smith has taken a swipe at the BBC after winning the 400m at the European Athletics Championship.

Britons’ eyes went skyward this evening as the most significant solar eclipse in 27 years graced UK skies.

A British family has finally been caught by French police after evading as much as €3,000 (£2,500) in motorway toll charges.

As many as 75,000 Britons are set to make their voices heard today at the Clacton by-election - the sixth at Westminster since 2024.

Women will be left "outnumbered six to one" if Labour floods a tiny Yorkshire village with more than a thousand "asylum seekers".