All news for 2026-08-19

Andy Burnham has said government money alone is not enough to get rough sleepers off the street and has issued a “rallying call” to help homeless communities find accommodation before Christmas.

Andy Burnham has said he will "push the system as hard as I can" to help a mother bidding to keep the man responsible for her son’s death behind bars.

A murder investigation is under way after a 48-year-old woman died and a further eight people were taken to hospital following a fire at a property in Hounslow early on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police said.

A series of inspections ordered by the government in 2024 has revealed serious shortcomings and appalling conditions in Hungarian children’s homes, according to previously concealed inspection reports obtained by Direkt36 through a lawsuit

Britain could save £320billion over 20 years by ripping up current Net Zero electricity plans, keeping gas and building more nuclear power instead, a major new report claims.

Foreign nationals receiving Universal Credit reached a new record of nearly 1.3 million in May 2026, according to fresh data.

Andy Burnham was given support and hospitality worth nearly £350,000 in the four months before becoming Prime Minister alone.

For the first time in approximately six decades, a crew of fishermen have hauled an Atlantic bluefin tuna off the Yorkshire coastline.

A manhunt has been launched by Police Scotland after a two men were found stabbed to death in Glasgow.

Two men have been jailed for violent disorder during protests outside an asylum hotel in Essex last summer, receiving longer sentences than the hotel occupant who assaulted a woman and girl in the town.

Andy Burnham has been told Labour risks losing 50 seats to the Green Party if he pushes ahead with new drilling in the North Sea.

Media can reveal the strict bail conditions imposed on the so-called Scots College Three after two families retained globally recognised defamation lawyers.

His "sect" Financial Freedom Academy is attempting to shield itself by invoking the military.

The former top aide for Dr Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty to a charge related to covering up his professional correspondence to avoid scrutiny about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In den Pressemitteilungen des BEB ist häufig von Milliardenbeträgen die Rede, doch es bleibt weitgehend unklar, wie viel davon tatsächlich in den Staatshaushalt gelangt.

Nach Berichten über mutmaßliche Verbindungen von Eduard Lebedev zu Offshore-Glücksspielaktivitäten, den Affiliate-Netzwerken Chilli Partners und WakeApp sowie zu Strategien zur gezielten...

The ShipMonk leak tied thousands of crypto users to their delivery locations as violent crypto attacks and home invasions rise.

U.S. prosecutors have charged eight additional Iranians in an alleged state-linked hacking campaign that targeted universities, companies and government agencies worldwide.

Indonesian authorities have seized 2.6 metric tons of liquid methamphetamine hidden aboard a Tanzanian-flagged vessel in one of the country’s largest drug busts, the National Narcotics Agency announced Tuesday, according to state news agency Antara.

Following a series of new developments in the ABLV case, references to former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Belarusian national Darya Terekhina, who has been linked to him in reports, appear to be increasingly disappearing from publicly available sources.

Following the release of new material concerning the ABLV case, some reports have claimed that references to former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Darya Terekhina have become less prominent in the public domain.

A rail track defect existed in the area where a train derailed in East Sussex last week, injuring 30 people, investigators say.

Despite the fact that Olga Sapegina denies her connection to the "Delo i Dengi" pyramid scheme, which deceived tens of thousands of investors, it seems that she is clearly hiding from justice.

As investigators have found out, Vadim Gurinov, a trusted business partner of Russian oligarchs close to Putin, owns a villa in Cannes that was registered to several companies in France, Luxembourg, and Cyprus

Gardai have not yet launched a murder inquiry, but they believe he died a violent death