All news for 2025-09-15

The alleged head of a large cocaine-smuggling operation, who was one of Europe’s most wanted men at the time of his arrest, has gone on trial in Brussels.

The UK will deploy RAF jets to Poland in response to Russian drones violating the country’s airspace.

A convicted con artist who was the focus of the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler has been arrested in Georgia on Interpol’s request, officials have said.

A builder accused of stealing a £270,000 Girl with Balloon Banksy print wanted to add the work to his existing collection of artwork featuring love hearts, a court has heard.

A doctor who left a patient midway through an operation to have sex with a nurse is at "very low risk" of repeating his serious misconduct, a medical tribunal has ruled.

Charlie’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson wrote a note expressing his intent to ’take out’ the conservative commentator before he fatally shot him, according to the FBI director.

For the second time in its long-standing dispute with Equatorial Guinea, the ICJ has ruled in favour of France, allowing the sale of former Vice President Teodorín Obiang’s multimillion-euro mansion seized in a corruption investigation.

Aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist partner Mark Gordon have been jailed for 14 years each for killing their newborn baby while on the run.

A man has died after being struck by a falling tree as gusts of more than 70mph hit the UK.

Eight people have been charged after disorder broke out during a Tommy Robinson rally in London last weekend.

Eden Project architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw has passed away at the age of 85.

The Mossad is ready to act if Tehran appears to be making moves to use its uranium towards developing a nuclear weapon.

Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating how products for the Russian military-industrial complex could end up on the European market despite international sanctions.

The burned-out presidential building loomed behind a tent where three new ministers were sworn in today in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu, following mass protests that toppled the government.

I’m at the Borisov military ground in Belarus, on a rare Guardian trip to the authoritarian state, where Zapad – the joint Russian-Belarusian drills – are under way.

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for Israel to be barred from international sports competitions as long as its “barbarism” in Gaza continues, saying the country should not be allowed to use high-profile events to “whitewash” its offensive.

The violent weather that battered Europe this summer caused short-term economic losses of at least €43bn, according to an EU-wide estimate, with costs expected to rise to €126bn by 2029.

The former mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has withdrawn from Ireland’s presidential election and complained that nomination rules were a “straitjacket” that prevented a true democratic contest.

When Park Seung-hwan* has a moment to himself, he opens Google Earth and searches for his family home.

A "predatory" maths teacher who was arrested after attempting to check into a Travelodge with a 16-year-old pupil has been banned from teaching for life.

Prince Harry has revealed his focus over the next year has to be on his father, King Charles, who was diagnosed with cancer last year.

The heartbroken mother of a seven-year-old girl killed in the Southport attack has told a public inquiry: “I need to understand how this happened.”