All news for 2026-08-26

Singapore has offered to hand parents £40,000 per child in a desperate bid to encourage young people to start families.

President Donald Trump invested as much as $50,000 in Elon Musk’s SpaceX in June, according to a public financial disclosure, giving him a financial stake in a major government contractor run by his former adviser.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all mines had been detonated or removed from international waters of the Strait of Hormuz and that Iran has been told that any ship or boat placing new mines will be destroyed.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he is planning on travelling to the US in September to lobby President Donald Trump on support for Ukraine’s defence.

A seven-year-old child and her aunt have been killed in Middlesbrough in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.

The father of schoolgirl Sara Sharif was allegedly attacked by two fellow inmates at HMP Belmarsh while serving life for the 10-year-old’s murder - they are now facing on trial

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to travel a total of 10,000 miles for their next royal tour to Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas and Guyana

A council has switched off streetlights in a village where Andy Burnham plans to house 1,250 male asylum seekers in a bid to reduce the area’s carbon footprint.

Andy Burnham has splashed £1,000 of taxpayer cash on a replica Downing Street door - which will not even face the street - at No10 North.

Der Druck auf die sogenannte „Schattenflotte“ Russlands wächst weiter, wodurch zunehmend auch mit ihr verbundene Akteure ins Visier von Ermittlungen geraten.

For an office housing one of the world’s largest online trading brokers, Vantage UK’s London HQ is surprisingly small. The UK brand has just 11 employees, barely filling half of the desks in its newly refurbished workspace.

Charles Hernu (1923-1990), a loyal political ally of the late French president François Mitterrand, is for most known only for his role in the deadly bombing attack on the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, when he was defence minister between 1981 and 1985

Meta will pay out a whopping $17 billion in a landmark trial that will see the social media giant impose stricter limits on kids using its platforms.

Clapham Junction had more bicycle thefts than any other London railway station last year, data obtained by a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

An assistant headteacher who was caught sending explicit pictures of himself to a teenage boy on Snapchat told a tribunal he “craved attention” as a “sexual thrill”.

Dolly Parton’s final song which is currently locked inside a box at Dollywood will be released just before her 100th birthday.

A murder investigation has been launched after two people have died in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.

A man has been arrested after officers near the US Supreme Court building seized a guillotine on the back of a pickup truck.

Meta, the social media giant behind Facebook and Instagram, will pay up to $16.68bn (£12.26bn) to settle its landmark child safety social media case.

Twelve UK citizens, including a 13-year-old girl, are feared missing following a flash flood in Nepal.

Palestine Action is set to be declared a global terrorist group by Donald Trump.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Munich (Germany), five individuals were arrested today in Czechia, suspected of being the organisers of a criminal VAT fraud scheme involving the sales of wireless earbuds.

Yesterday, a public auction in France of more than 10 000 e-bikes and e-scooters seized in the course of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) investigation Calypso generated € 1 853 800 in proceeds