All news for 2025-10-20

A Kirklees councillor and former MP are among a group of people standing trial for fraud.

Citizens Advice has found that over seven million adults in the UK have been affected by a scam in the past year, with 20% of them experiencing significant financial loss.

A male migrant has avoided jail despite admitting to fraud after he used a female nurse’s identity to work in a hospital.

An asylum seeker has been jailed for stealing from an Oxford University college and “biting” a rare plant.

Virginia Giuffre describes years of sexual abuse by her father and a family friend in a posthumous memoir to be published next week.

Eight people have died and 27,000 have been evacuated after Tropical Storm Fengshen hit the Philippines during the weekend.

The French government is facing increasing pressure concerning museum security as police continue to search for the thieves who took seven minutes to steal priceless jewels from the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum.

The European Union’s attempt to sanction Serbia’s Karić family over their ties to the authoritarian president of Belarus ultimately failed because it listed the wrong company details, according to an investigation by the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC).

Almost 6,500 Met Police staff, including 999 call handlers, counter-terror, and forensics teams, are set to strike on Bonfire Night due to a pay dispute.

An executive who allegedly played a key role in one of Asia’s biggest crime organizations — which was hit with U.S. and U.K. sanctions this week — purchased at least 29 prestige properties in Dubai, while his wife bought five luxury flats in London, real estate data shows.

A Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced an independent investigation into "repeated failures" at an NHS trust’s maternity units, following potentially avoidable harm to babies and mothers.

Numerous Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK might close, and hundreds of jobs are at risk after the dine-in aspect of its business fell into administration.

Metropolitan Police is to stop investigating "non-crime hate incidents" to "reduce ambiguity" after prosecutors dropped a case against Graham Linehan.

Bitter divisions in Reform UK’s flagship county council have been laid bare in a leaked video of a chaotic internal meeting where members were told to “fucking suck it up” if they did not agree with decisions.

Former NFL star Doug Martin, a running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders, has died at the age of 36, reportedly after suffering a medical emergency while in police custody.

The discount retailer B&M has replaced its finance chief following a £7m accounting mistake that will reduce its annual earnings – marking its second profit warning within two weeks.

AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children, and survivors of sexual violence are flooding stock photo sites and are increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have expressed concern over a new era of “poverty porn.”

The ’fatal blow’ that led to the China spy case collapsing was the inclusion of a line from the Labour Party’s manifesto on Beijing.

Contractors and suppliers of a "disaster" pet show in London, which faced widespread criticism for not attracting the promised 20,000 visitors, claim that the event organizer has now "vanished" and left behind £200,000 in unpaid bills.

Police reported that dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 13 civilians and three police officers.

The UK military will be given new legal authority to shoot down unidentified drones that pose a threat to British bases, as the Ministry of Defence steps up efforts to address the growing threat from hostile states.

Two people have died after a cargo plane skidded off the runway and plunged into the sea in Hong Kong.