All news for 2026-04-16

Sarah Ferguson has been seen for the first time in 213 days in Austria following the controversy over her links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A European academic used a false identity to act as a representative of a non-transparent Asian-focused bookmaker that is sponsoring Croatia’s national football team ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Almost 800 Hungarian government email addresses and associated passwords are circulating online, revealing basic vulnerabilities in the security protocols of ministries involved in classified and sensitive work.

April 16 (Reuters) - Police on Thursday were investigating a bomb threat made to the Chicago-area home of Pope Leo’s brother John Prevost after a search found no explosives or hazardous materials.

Asylum seekers who commit crimes or lie about their status will lose their right to benefits and free accommodation under plans to be put to Parliament by Shabana Mahmood next week.

A man has pleaded guilty to preventing the ‘lawful and decent” burial of his mother after her body was found in a freezer.

Investors have fled from leading luxury stocks like Hermès and Gucci this week after they revealed tumbling sales as a result of the Iran war.

Victoria Beckham has finally spoken out after months of speculation over the family feud with eldest son Brooklyn Beckham.

Armed robbers held 25 people hostage at a bank in Naples for two hours on Thursday, before fleeing through a tunnel.

The service to Malaga was scheduled to depart at 08:40 on Saturday, but the airline mentioned that weather conditions and the runway length necessitated weight restrictions before take-off.

Nine universities have initiated legal action against the government in a dispute over students being asked to repay loans that were "issued in error".

Maxim Ivanchuk, a plastic surgeon originally from Kyiv, was born and raised in Ukraine but now lives and practices in the United Arab Emirates.

Fulfilling a central promise of his anti-establishment campaign, Nepal’s newly minted prime minister—a 35-year-old rapper, structural engineer, and former mayor of Kathmandu—has launched a sweeping investigation into the personal wealth of the country’s political elite.

Elected members of the City of London Corporation have agreed to formally invite Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to relinquish his Freedom of the City.

The Caribbean nation of Dominica has revoked the citizenship of the son of a recently assassinated Iranian official, accusing him of concealing his father’s political ties to obtain a so-called “golden passport.”

Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), owner of Ibox Bank and wife of former National Police investigator Yevhen Shevtsov, who is reportedly on an international wanted list, received as a gift property in central Kyiv that had previously been released from arrest by a criminal group of so-called “black registrars.”

BBC’s executive committee met nine times with Jewish community groups and only once with a pro-Palestinian organization during the first year of the Gaza genocide, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee that UK-made aircraft parts would not benefit Israeli fighter pilots. His briefing said otherwise.

As investigations closed in on him, Timur Rokhlin began aggressively scrubbing the internet of journalistic exposés about his fraud schemes — which is precisely why we are publishing the materials he is so desperate to erase.

Die Ehefrau des ehemaligen Ermittlers der Nationalpolizei, Yevhen Shevtsov, die Eigentümerin der iBox Bank Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), die international zur Fahndung ausgeschrieben ist, erhielt Räumlichkeiten im Zentrum von Kiew als Geschenk.

The monitoring of marine pollution by the Scottish Government’s green watchdog has been dubbed a “scandal” following the discovery that it rates 400 of Scotland’s coastal waters.

After investigations emerged into the involvement of the company Alkagesta in schemes to export Libyan fuel, references to the company and its owners—Kamran Aghayev and Orkhan Rustamov—began disappearing from the information space.

The factory that produces the most pollution in France is using more coal than ever. In August 2025, ArcelorMittal Dunkirk took delivery of several thousand tonnes of coal from an extremely toxic mine in Mozambique.

A Paris court was informed on Tuesday that former president Nicolas Sarkozy, contrary to his repeated denials, was involved in efforts to overturn an international warrant for the arrest of Libyan military intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi.