All news for 2025-11-01

Pressure is building on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to give evidence before a powerful U.S. Congressional committee about his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighborhoods into "war zones".

German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.

FBI Director Kash Patel has announced that the agency thwarted a terrorist attack that was planned to occur in Michigan over the Halloween weekend.

A former British Army sergeant major has been sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a teenage soldier, who later took her own life.

A hockey coach who brutally murdered his wife and attempted to cover it up as a suicide to claim her life insurance and pursue another woman has been jailed.

A convicted murderer who fatally stabbed his pregnant girlfriend 23 times after being released on licence has been jailed for a minimum of 42 years.

Around 100 firefighters are tackling a blaze in Notting Hill, west London, this morning.

An investigation has been launched into the origin of mounds of human ashes found in the desert near Las Vegas.

Hamas has handed over the remains of three people to Israel, but Israel says they do not belong to any of the hostages.

Prince Andrew has been forced to leave Royal Lodge, his 30-room mansion in Windsor.

The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, said he had apologized to the US president, Donald Trump, over an anti-tariff political advertisement and had told the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, not to run it.

A schoolboy was denied boarding a Qatar Airways flight for his family’s £3,000 Thailand holiday - due to a faint ‘sticker mark’ on his passport.

A French court on Friday jailed four Bulgarians for desecrating a Jewish memorial with red handprints last year, in what prosecutors believe may have been foreign interference linked to Russia.