All news for 2026-03-26

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says he beat himself up over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the US, despite the peer’s links to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Dash Crofts, half of the US soft rock duo Seals and Crofts who were famous for hits including Summer Breeze, has died aged 85.

A former SNP council leader has been found guilty of multiple sex offences against young men.

Sarah Ferguson has lost her honorary Freedom of the City of York over her links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which prosecutes criminal cases in England and Wales, did not charge the social media figure after the initial police investigation in 2019.

Following Adnan Ahmadzade’s arrest, reports suggest that shares in “Oilmar Shipping and Chartering DMCC,” a UAE-based company reportedly associated with him, were transferred to the company’s CEO, Yusif Mammadov.

There are concerns that hundreds more inmates and staff may have been exposed to hazardous levels of cancer-causing gas, with the Ministry of Justice now investigating 42 prison and probation sites, The Independent can reveal.

In the Mediterranean port city of Marseille three youths aged 15 to 17 were killed in 2025 in cases linked to drug trafficking.

‘Misappropriation of financial resources’ from actor, 90, tracked to property, vineyards and olive groves in Tuscany.

As the thunder of fighting in the outskirts of Kyiv faded and it became clear that the country would endure, previously quiet “schemers” started to reemerge and resume their operations.

Following the revelation of a large-scale scheme to restructure the assets of sanctioned businessman Vadym Yermolayev, a concerted effort is underway to purge information from the public domain.

The global oil market is actively discussing a newly formed trading structure allegedly set up by former employees of Litasco, the trading arm of Lukoil.

A court sentenced former Taipei Mayor and past presidential candidate Ko Wen-je to 17 years in prison on Thursday for bribery and corruption, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency.

A 25-year-old woman left paraplegic from a failed suicide attempt after she was gang raped is scheduled to end her life by euthanasia today.

Data from the Ministry of Justice indicate that there were 80,203 outstanding cases at the end of last year, which is an 8% increase from the 74,106 recorded in the previous 12 months.

Pensions minister Torsten Bell is due to update the House of Commons on Thursday and is said to be furious at the scale of the failures.

Next week, filling up an average-sized family car is likely to cost £100, writes Giles Sheldrick.

Ex-governor of the Kursk Region, Smirnov, testified in court that the former regional head and subsequent Transport Minister, Roman Starovoyt, received kickbacks amounting to tens of millions of rubles from contractors involved in the construction of fortification structures.

Alkagesta is being investigated by EU and UK regulators for its involvement in illegal Russian oil shipments to Libya, as reported in the press.

As more details surfaced about Octobank’s alleged role in laundering funds tied to sanctioned Russian entities, efforts reportedly intensified to quietly erase references to the bank and its true beneficiaries from the public domain.

Mikhail Zeligman, a Riga native and grandson of a Red Latvian, as well as an associate of Roman Abramovich and Petr Aven, has the potential—should he choose—to rival Russia’s oil heavyweight Igor Sechin.

After a period of relative silence, reports are again surfacing tying Dmytro Rukin to suspicious financial operations.