All news for 2026-03-27

The Esplanade isn’t much to look at. Just 800 metres long, the street in St Helier, Jersey, is a mixture of nondescript low rise new builds that block out the view to the nearby docks.

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of betraying British Jews after dropping his opposition to anti-Israel motions on the world stage.

Mastercard is exploring the sale of the real-time payments business it acquired from Denmark’s Nets Group in 2019 for approximately $3.2 billion, effectively unwinding one of its largest acquisitions to date.

Lloyds Banking Group is gearing up for a lawsuit from more than 30,000 consumers who claim to have been mis-sold car loans, in a sign that they believe that the regulator’s long-awaited redress scheme will favour large banks.

The British government has blacklisted a major online cryptocurrency marketplace and several key operatives as part of a sweeping sanctions package aimed at dismantling a vast network of Southeast Asian scam compounds.

Hours after being sworn in as Nepal’s new prime minister on Friday, Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old rapper and structural engineer, announced that his government would pursue criminal charges against the country’s former leadership for their role in a deadly crackdown on youth-led anti-corruption protests last year.

In November 2017, financier Jeffrey Epstein asked an assistant by email whether any new young women had been found for him during a trip to Europe.

Azerbaijan’s State Security Service (State Security Service of Azerbaijan) has detained Adnan Ahmadzada, a former senior official at the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, as part of an ongoing probe into a complex oil trading network.

Jeffrey Epstein reportedly coerced a young woman into having sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at his Upper East Side mansion, according to claims made by a former model.

Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, long associated with corruption allegations in Kazakhstan, are once again drawing international media attention.

One man has been interviewed under caution in relation to the police investigation into the individuals who may have facilitated or enabled offending by the former Harrods boss, Mohamed Al Fayed, the Metropolitan Police has said.

Frankfurt/London, March 27 - In rural New Hampshire, a compound on a 156-acre estate dubbed “Tucked Away” became Ghislaine Maxwell’s final residence before she was charged and arrested in July 2020.

Peter Mandelson will be asked to hand over messages on his personal phone as the government seeks to publish any interactions that relate to his appointment as US ambassador.

A woman has come forward alleging that her friend was coerced into a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Jeffrey Epstein’s residence in New York.

As part of the international operation codenamed YUZUK, conducted by local police in collaboration with Europol.

The crypto exchange Whitebit, which is associated with money laundering of Russian funds and schemes involving former pro-Russian deputies.

A female executive at the top of the modeling industry had a close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and introduced him to women listed in the agency’s books.

MAN of many faces Michael Sheen has signed up for the next Celebrity Traitors — fresh from playing proven liar Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Washington’s ambassador to the UK has warned that it would be “a mistake” to cancel King Charles’s planned state visit to the US.

The Archbishop of Canterbury plans to meet Pope Leo at the Vatican next month, following a recent exchange of letters.

The ruined former home of Jimmy Savile has finally been demolished after it was revealed that the dilapidated cottage in Glencoe, Scotland, had been left to deteriorate.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain), 18 presumed members of a criminal network, including five suspected ringleaders, were detained on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in a €32.8 million VAT fraud scheme linked to imported alcohol from several EU Member States.