All news for 2025-09-08

Ramin Isayev, former SOCAR AQS director, was sentenced for embezzlement, fraud, and money laundering, with investigators saying he laundered millions through Turkish real estate and used shell firms to win state tenders.

Zambia’s former Foreign Minister Joseph Malanji has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour after being convicted of corruption.

A pensioner who attempted to smuggle cocaine worth more than £600,000 into the UK hidden in his mobility scooter has been jailed.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday intensified his criticism of Israel’s actions in the 23-month Israel-Hamas war, which led Israel to respond by banning two left-wing Spanish ministers from the country.

Jamaicans head to the polls on Wednesday for a closely fought general election which has been overshadowed by an investigation into potential corruption in the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which is seeking a third term in office.

A former senior noncommissioned army officer has admitted to sexually assaulting the teenage soldier Jaysley Beck, who later killed herself.

A man charged with the murder of his brother after he was found with 36 stab wounds to his head, neck and chest, has appeared in court.

A finance manager stole more than £200,000 from a music technology company to give himself a pay rise and fund a holiday to the Caribbean.

The European Union stated on Monday that it doesn’t "encourage" aid flotillas heading to Gaza, as ships carrying humanitarian aid and pro-Palestinian activists, including Greta Thunberg, set sail for the war-torn area.

Bribes have been used to bypass the long waiting lists for affordable homes, according to the City of London Police, which has now launched an investigation into corrupt housing officers.

In Kathmandu, young Nepalis protested the government’s social media ban. They also voiced concerns about widespread corruption.

Two former presidents in Peru are facing disparate outcomes in the corruption cases they face.

On Monday, a wealthy business couple identified several Philippine congressmen and public works officials, alleging that they forced them to pay large kickbacks in order to secure lucrative flood-control projects from the government, according to explosive testimony during a nationally televised Senate investigation.

Russian businessman Roman Abramovich is a defendant in the criminal case by the authorities of the island of Jersey in connection with allegations of corruption and money laundering, The Guardian reports, citing documents from the Swiss Federal Criminal Court regarding bank accounts requested by the Attorney General of Jersey.

Britain is already under daily cyberattack, and the next casualty may not be a hacked network or paralysed business but ordinary people, a leading security expert has warned.

To add to the confusion, the TFL website crashed as users searched for travel solutions. Hundreds of thousands of commuters reportedly attempted to access the site simultaneously, overwhelming its servers.

The Former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats became Facebook’s head of global affairs after his frontline political career ended.

“I needed to watch this stuff. And over time you... get desensitized... and a lot of the time it gets worse until people start accessing illegal content.”

Lecturers and other staff at the University of Edinburgh are set to begin a five-day walkout in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university’s budget.

Donald Trump was met with a mixture of boos and cheers as he attended the thrilling US Open men’s singles final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner on Sunday.

Three young women were injured after an SUV mounted the pavement and crashed into pedestrians walking next to a popular beach in Ibiza.