All news for 2025-08-19

Internal review by the National Police Air Service determines the crew acted ‘appropriately’ during the pursuit.

Five Greater Manchester Police officers are being investigated for potential misconduct following the death of an arrested man who collapsed in his cell.

Iraqi and Lebanese authorities say they have shut down what they described as the Middle East’s largest Captagon factory, a major blow against the region’s booming trade in the amphetamine-like drug.

A new report warns that increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes, powered by artificial intelligence, are set to overwhelm financial institutions unless prevention systems keep pace.

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of labor activist Sharifah Mohammadi, nearly a year after overturning the verdict due to lack of evidence, according to the Norway-based rights group Hengaw.

Following a string of balcony-related falls in Ibiza, a 22-year-old British tourist has become the latest to be seriously injured after falling three storeys in the party resort of San Antonio.

Timur Turlov is a renowned individual in Kazakhstan and Russia. This young billionaire is the owner of Freedom Holding Corp., a company listed on Nasdaq, operating across 22 countries, and generating public revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Transport secretary urges Stellantis to offer more help after tens of thousands are left unable to use their car

The body of a man who was thought to be missing for days was found by his wife behind their garden shed after a chainsaw accident.

A police officer conducting a search of a woman’s bedroom took something that wasn’t exactly evidence.

Asylum seekers being housed in an Essex hotel will be moved after a council was granted a temporary High Court injunction.

Thomas Jennings, a man with ties to a local gang who was caught on camera attacking his girlfriend, has been jailed.

The right engine of the Boeing 757-300 started spewing flames shortly after departing from Corfu in Greece - distraught passengers reported that they began ’sending text messages to loved ones’ as they feared the worst.

Westminster City Council is proposing extending its existing Public Spaces (Nuisance Vehicles) Protection Order (PSPO), which currently covers an area including most of St James’s, Knightsbridge and Belgravia, to the two upmarket districts.

Keir Starmer praised Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine after being asked by BBC Breakfast about his feelings on seeing Vladimir Putin receive red carpet treatment in Alaska.

After renouncing his Russian citizenship, Timur Turlov continues to channel money from Russia while comfortably residing in Kazakhstan.

A mother who killed two teenagers in a high-speed crash cried ‘I’m so sorry’ in court as she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The US Department of Justice will start providing Congress with records related to Jeffrey Epstein to the House Oversight Committee beginning on Friday, as stated by a lawmaker.