All news for 2025-10-03

A New York federal judge has sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to four years and two months in prison following his conviction this summer on federal prostitution-related charges.

The name of Oleg Tsyura has resurfaced at the centre of a scandal involving former head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennychenko, and multi-billion schemes that cost Ukraine over ten billion hryvnias.

A man in his 80s has died after being hit by a police vehicle that was on an emergency call.

A self-proclaimed satanist actor who claimed he made a pact with a “red-horned devil” has been found guilty of possessing extreme right-wing material.

A 19-year-old man has died from “significant” injuries after a car he was in failed to stop for police and crashed in north London.

A hacking group claims to have extracted data from a GitLab instance associated with Red Hat’s consulting business, obtaining 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers.

Czechs have begun voting in an election likely to oust their centre-right government, with polls favouring the populist billionaire Andrej Babiš to return to power on pledges to raise wages and improve growth while reducing aid for Ukraine.

The Manchester synagogue terrorist was on police bail for an alleged rape when he carried out the attack, the Guardian can reveal.

Russia is attempting to jam UK military satellites on a regular basis, according to the head of the UK Space Command.

The captain of a suspected “shadow fleet” oil tanker detained off the coast of France will go on trial in February, accused of failing to cooperate with authorities.

The director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library has left his position after opposing the gift of a sword from the collection to King Charles during Donald Trump’s recent state visit, according to US media reports on Thursday.

When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his flat complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived.

Google’s Ad Transparency tool no longer displays political online advertisements that have run on its platforms, past or present, from any countries in the European Union, making seven years of data from 27 different countries inaccessible.

FBI Director Kash Patel has fired a longtime bureau employee who displayed a Pride flag in his workspace during a past assignment, according to multiple people familiar with the termination.

The developer of ICEBlock, an app that allows people to crowdsource sightings of ICE officials, has expressed his determination to fight back after Apple removed the app from its App Store on Thursday.

The reclusive billionaire co-founder of Wall Street hedge fund Jane Street is an unkempt hippie who has spent his wealth on Burning Man boondoggles, casinos and funding a coup in Africa, according to a report.

After slowly taxiing towards the runway at NATO’s Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the pilots go full throttle and the decades-old E-3 Sentry surveillance plane screams as it gains speed and lifts off on its way to Eastern Europe.

A large fire broke out Thursday night at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, a city south of Los Angeles, officials said.

Venezuela on Thursday said it had detected five US fighter jets flying near its Caribbean coast.