All news for 2025-11-11

A man has passed away after falling from a balcony at a well-known holiday park, following reports that he lost his balance.

Italy has returned a collection of ancient relics more than 5,000 years old to Pakistan, marking a major step in efforts to protect the South Asian nation’s cultural heritage. Experts say Pakistan must do more to prevent such thefts.

Prison unions have warned the system “could collapse” as one in 25 prison service staff face deportation under new visa rules.

A Bulgarian court has postponed a hearing on Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, the Russian-Cypriot ship operator linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people, pending assurances that he will not face the death penalty if extradited.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has applied to close down some of his last remaining business interests, including the Dragons’ Den-style startup competition Pitch@Palace Global.

A senior NHS manager has been jailed for 28 years for raping a 12-year-old and sexually abusing five other girls after grooming them on Snapchat.

The US Navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.

For six years, Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc—suspected of involvement in the theft of $1 billion—evaded justice by crossing borders under a web of false identities spanning Europe, the Middle East, and even the Pacific, until his arrest in July 2025 at Athens International Airport.

Rachel Reeves’s decision to impose a £25 billion “jobs tax” on employers in last year’s Budget remains her single biggest blunder, and that’s saying something.

China’s carbon dioxide emissions have remained steady or decreased for 18 months, analysis shows, supporting hopes that the world’s largest polluter has achieved its peak CO2 emissions target earlier than planned.

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Italian companies paid over €1 billion in taxes to Russia, half of which went to military spending to finance the ongoing destruction of Ukraine.

London’s High Court finalized a ruling requiring oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his partner Hennadii Boholiubov to pay PrivatBank over $3 billion in compensation and legal costs.

Elon Musk doesn’t just want to send astronauts to Mars — he wants to send your kids too. The SpaceX founder, who’s spent years trying to make life "multiplanetary," shared an update in May that felt less like a corporate milestone and more like a recruitment video for humanity’s next big leap.

A taxi driver in South Korea has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison for running an elaborate "fake vomit" scam used to extort more than 160 drunk passengers.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday opted not to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his December 11 execution, resulting in the state defaulting to lethal injection.

Ukrainian authorities charged seven individuals on Tuesday in connection with an alleged $100 million kickback scheme involving senior energy officials that has sparked public anger and focused attention on Kyiv’s battle against corruption.

Trump downplays economic woes as partisan spin, saying, ’Costs are way down’

Outgoing director general tells staff ‘we have to be very clear and stand up for our journalism’

Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza, and trans rights coverage, and had ’a lot of oxygen in the room.’

Amy McAuley, 35, was scheduled to stand trial on charges of theft and attempted deception after she faked her own death in an effort to evade criminal charges, but she was eventually caught.

Lithuania closed the two border crossings with Belarus on 29 October after meteorological balloons flying from Belarus caused repeated disruption to air traffic.

Prince Andrew became Andrew Mountbatten Windsor when he lost his prince title and his dukedom due to his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Police have sealed off a street in the Longsight area of Manchester after two teenagers were stabbed on Monday night.