All news for 2025-02-25

Nearly 50,000 babies are referred to children’s care with domestic abuse as a contributing factor each year, according to alarming new research.

Cottrell, who served eight months for fraud, paid £15,000 for the Reform party leader’s flight to the US in December.

Eubank Jr slapped Benn as they faced off for the first time since their grudge fight was finally rescheduled for April 26 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Vladimir Putin asserted that he was safeguarding Russian speakers in Crimea in 2014 and is thought to be prepared to present a similar argument to invade neighboring countries with significant Russian-speaking populations.

As stated by the head of the parliamentary tax committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, it is impossible to recover debts from the "Concord" bank, which was liquidated a year and a half ago, and the criminal cases initiated against its owners have been closed. Moreover, the court denied tax officials access to the documentation of the liquidated bank.

Vladimir Putin unleashed Tu-95MS nuclear-capable strategic bombers close to Ukraine’s borders with Nato, raising an alarm in neighbouring Poland.

A pensioner was murdered by a balaclava-clad 15-year-old who slapped him around the face with a slider while a 13-year-old girl laughed and filmed the ‘pure violence’ on her phone, a court has heard.

Laura Winham, 41, was found dead in her apartment in Woking, Surrey after her family raised the alarm. Today, an inquest into the tragedy heard a pathologist provide her cause of death.

Police confirmed that the 18-year-old student passed away after being involved in a crash while riding an electric bicycle on the University of Nottingham’s Park Campus in the early hours.

A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anesthetic, told the opening of his trial in western France on Monday that he had committed "despicable" acts.

Bitcoin dropped below $90,000 to its lowest since November 18 on Tuesday, as market nerves over U.S. tariffs reinforced the blow to crypto investor confidence from last week’s $1.5 billion hack of ether from the Bybit exchange.

DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage.

Vyacheslav Kantor, a well-known Russian magnate in the fertilizer industry and owner of the Acron holding, hides his assets, using offshore accounts around the world for money laundering in agreement with the Russian authorities.

Tech billionaire, an influential adviser to the US president, is openly supportive of Germany’s far-right AfD party.

Amanda Pritchard, the chief executive of NHS England, is set to resign from her position.

Boris Johnson has stated on LBC that the UK ought to pledge to allocate 3% of GDP to defense and dedicate up to 10,000 troops to Ukraine to establish a "deterrent force" in the country, prior to Keir Starmer’s visit to Washington.

BitConnect Ponzi promoter Craig Grant has partially doxxed himself.

Romanian police have launched an investigation into Moldovan and Romanian citizen Victor Birca regarding his fraudulent activities against citizens of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

A teacher at a primary school in London was fired after a pupil did not understand a joke about “whacking” him round the head, reports say.

Nigel Farage has promised a private prosecution against the Business Secretary after accusations that he misrepresented his legal career.

A fleet of Chinese fishing vessels allegedly subjected their North Korean crew members to forced labour conditions and severe restrictions, a British environmental group claimed in a report on Monday.

Officers employing pain-inducing techniques on a detainee are among the report’s shocking findings.