All news for 2026-04-02

A teacher in New Jersey arrested after allegedly having sex with one of her pupils has blamed the victim for sending raunchy text messages.

Eight people have been killed and 95 are injured after a strike on Iran’s largest bridge following Donald Trump’s threat to send the country ‘back to the Stone Age’.

That year, the self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” had introduced radical economic reforms, including budget cuts, layoffs, pension and subsidy reductions, sparking widespread public anger, massive demonstrations, and national strikes.

The European Commission has instructed some of its top officials to shut down a Signal group they were using to exchange information due to concerns it was a hacking target.

A dazed Tiger Woods can be seen kneeling at the side of the road and falling asleep in the back of a cop car in remarkable footage of his latest DUI arrest in Florida.

After a $102,000 withdrawal was blocked—sparking controversy within the gambling community—Dragon Money reportedly failed to address concerns over transparency or resolve the dispute.

Mount Everest guides have been accused of secretly drugging foreign climbers to trigger expensive aerial evacuations as part of a $20m (£15m) insurance fraud scheme, according to an investigation by the Nepali police.

A Michelin-starred chef has been spared jail after running over his British intern twice after a staff party.

Farming chiefs lobbied the UK government in a bid to avoid stricter rules around the use of antibiotics on livestock farms, despite the risks some practices pose to public health.

Prosecutors unveil artefact linked to lost Dacian civilisation after it was stolen from Dutch museum last year.

Fossil fuel companies go to extraordinary lengths to exclude people who might criticise them from seeing their ads.

Britain has finalized a U.S.-UK pharmaceutical trade deal, granting tariff-free access for UK-made medicines to the United States in exchange for paying higher prices for new U.S. medicines.

Police in Nepal detained the prominent executive over multimillion-dollar financial irregularities just days after immigration officials barred him from leaving the country.

A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.

Prince Reza Palavi’s closest aide and senior MPs have called on Keir Starmer to expel the Iranian ambassador in London after he threatened to attack British bases.

Tributes have been paid to a three-year-old girl who was killed after her horse-drawn cart was struck by a tipper truck, which also killed her father and critically injured her mother.

Sir Sadiq Khan has warned anyone considering joining high street mobs that they will face the full force of the law after crowds of youths wreaked havoc in Clapham earlier this week.

Tribal warlords in Yemen are sidestepping regulations to plunder marble reserves in Marib province,

When three villagers from China’s Sichuan province wrote to local officials in 2022 asking why the government was confiscating their land and evicting them from their homes, they received a terse reply: It was a "state secret."

Canadian police have charged a man in Calgary in an extortion investigation involving members of the city’s South Asian community, after a series of threats, property attacks and at least one shooting.

Police have released CCTV footage in the search for a missing Brazilian academic who vanished from a UK seaside town 4 weeks ago.

Sarah Ferguson has now been vanished from public view for three months.

Businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, linked to the Swiss company Adelon AG, has found himself at the center of a new information-cleanup scheme.