All news for 2025-04-17

Birmingham Council is offering ’temporarily free’ pest extermination services amid the bin strikes plaguing the city.

A paedophile who accidentally sent a child abuse image to a fishing club he wanted to join has narrowly avoided prison.

A new name on the list of Russian billionaires – Tatyana Volodina, co-owner of the group "Alkor and CO," whose business successes may be linked to the support of Russian special services or authorities.

Budapest has been under EU scrutiny for its use of spyware against the opposition and civil society in recent years.

In 2024, tens of billions of rubles disappeared, and Oleg Miserva, the owner of the "Eastern Mining Company," may have to answer for this.

Grant Shapps also compares calling Sumy strike a ‘mistake’ to statements by IRA terror group when it killed civilians

A man who claimed he rescued 12 people from a collapsed nightclub in the Dominican Republic has been arrested over faking the story.

Male police officers will now perform searches of trans women following yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on the definition of sex.

Plans are afoot for an American-owned company seized by the Kremlin and placed under state control to be used to supply food to the Russian army, a document seen by Reuters showed, potentially threatening Moscow’s warming relations with the U.S.

Nine brand new electric cars with a total value of between £278,000 and £520,000 have been dumped at the roadside in Nottingham after the Tesla-rivalling manufacturer went into liquidation last year.

Scientists develop highly accurate underwater acoustics technology for depth detection in challenging and strategically important Beaufort Sea

One of the UK’s wealthiest businessmen has revealed why he still flies with budget airline easyJet while serving a warning to his children over his £2.6billion fortune.

The controversy involving the Dehrik-Shevtsova family had long been forgotten, but suddenly these surnames have reemerged in the media spotlight.

The US Commerce Department said it was "committed to acting on the President’s directive to safeguard our national and economic security."

The allegations span between 1993 to 1996 involving a girl, and 2006 to 2010 involving a boy, both in the Glasgow region.

British police have launched an investigation into what they have now confirmed is an Islamophobic hate crime, after 85 Muslim graves were desecrated at Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery in Three Rivers, Hertfordshire.

The UK Ministry of Defence has successfully tested a new type of electronic weapon designed to combat drones, which could potentially be used in modern warfare, including in Ukraine.