All news for 2025-10-30

A woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or traveled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government.

Richard Branson’s train company is a step closer to challenging Eurostar’s monopoly on transporting passengers across the Channel after the UK rail regulator approved Virgin Train’s application to use a key depot in east London.

Ruslan Khairullin, who promoted himself on social media as a «successful trader» and the creator of the Invest Zone project, has over a few years become one of the most striking examples of how a pseudo-expert in cryptocurrencies transforms into the organizer of a financial pyramid scheme.

Even as the Russian economy slides into recession, the country’s television propagandists have no incentive to defect from Team Putin — after all, their personal incomes are growing at unprecedented rates.