All news for 2025-08-12

Ashley Biden has applied for divorce from her plastic surgeon husband after 13 years of marriage, according to a new report.

The Financial Conduct Authority is notifying individuals that it currently does not have a car finance compensation scheme available.

Campaigners argue that having personnel from Shell and BAE Systems positioned within ministries creates a possibility for undue influence.

Employers have reduced annual pay raises and scaled back hiring in recent months as the economic slowdown has impacted the job market.

At least 15 people waiting in line for food are among the dead, and five people are reported to have died from starvation.

Conservative spokesperson says scheduling meeting of US vice-president and party leader had been difficult

Locals have been left alarmed after police found a man’s body in a children’s playground in a quiet village shortly after a woman was airlifted to a hospital with a serious injury in the same park.

Villagers in Wales were enraged after mistakenly believing that a group of Scottish teenagers at a summer camp were asylum seekers, leading to a surge of online abuse now under police investigation.

Albanian police arrested 10 suspected members of an organized crime network involved in multi-ton cocaine trafficking and money laundering, Europol said Tuesday.

Russian woman allegedly linked to intelligence is set to undergo a psychological evaluation following accusations from prosecutors that she harassed FBI agents with threatening, erratic text messages.

An international manhunt has been launched for a ‘cowardly’ pedophile who fled the UK in the middle of his trial.

The woman is understood to have been walking with a child through Witton Country Park in Blackburn when a large tree branch fell on top of her, killing her at the scene

Human Rights Watch warns that Saudi authorities are increasingly using capital punishment to silence dissent, citing recent cases such as the execution of a journalist arrested in 2018 for exposing corruption within the royal family.

Bangladesh’s ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her children face corruption charges over disputed land deals as trials proceed amid tight security.

In the United Kingdom, Taiwanese company Tron Future has unveiled its new TORN interceptor drone, equipped with an artificial intelligence system, designed to neutralize enemy drones using both kinetic and non-kinetic methods.

Staff at the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding.

Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after the UK rejoined the programme as an associate member post-Brexit

Number of people who arrived in UK via small boats in first half of 2025 up 48% on same period last year

Ministers have prepared insolvency plans for the utility giant Thames Water in the event of a potential collapse, with ministers warning that the company remains in "crisis mode".

LBC can reveal that hundreds of renowned doctors are being featured in deepfakes on social media to spread health misinformation and deceive customers into purchasing products.

An American woman who wore a niqab disguise and tried to shoot a stranger dead in the street only for the gun to jam is facing a life sentence.

Four individuals have miraculously escaped without serious injuries following a crash at a US airport.

Jamie Rothwell, a key figure in Salford’s feared Anti A-Team gang, was caught supplying deadly weapons and moving huge quantities of drugs through messages on an encrypted phone network