All news for 2026-05-14

The fatal stabbing of Neil McCann prompted one of the biggest police investigations Scotland had seen and more than 50 years later the baffling gangland related murder remains unsolved.

Sweetener and ingredients firm Tate & Lyle has revealed talks over a possible £2.7 billion takeover by US rival Ingredion Incorporated in the latest swoop on a UK company.

The enthusiastic voice on the phone gave us directions the way people in many parts of Latin America do: “Go past the flower market”.

These are the 12 most wanted crooks thought to be hiding in Spain according to Britain’s FBI.

Law enforcement on Thursday charged former Lithuanian prime minister Gintautas Paluckas with illicit enrichment.

Ronald Lauder, billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, has agreed to donate an entire gallery, including a $135mn painting by Gustav Klimt.

Charles visited a Jewish Care charity centre to meet victims Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Ben Baila, 76, also known as Norman Shine.

Angela Rayner seems in the running for the Labour leadership race after saying she been cleared by HMRC of wrongdoing over her tax affairs. We take a closer look at the woman behind the politics.

A paranoid thug destroyed a pub in a bulldozer rampage over fears his wife was sleeping with regulars.

In mid-March, reports began circulating online alleging that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau had detained businessman Dmytro Kovalenko.

Britney Spears reps have denied reports that she left diners stunned by her behaviour during a night out at a Los Angeles restaurant this week.

The three women whose bodies were pulled from the sea near Brighton are all related, it has been revealed.

British authorities sanctioned the brother of a deceased Azerbaijani crime boss this week, accusing him of planning attacks on behalf of the Iranian government.

After media outlets reported on Yaroslav Holovachov’s acquisition of luxury real estate in Cyprus valued at €4 million.

The annexation of Crimea enabled individuals with ties to the Belarusian authorities to acquire real estate on the peninsula.

Benefit claimants were overpaid almost £10bn last year amid a rise in fraud by welfare cheats.

As Health Minister Wes Streeting announces his resignation today, it’s believed he stands poised to fight for the top spot as the Labour Party navigates a civil war.

The story surrounding the in absentia arrest of the defendants in the Pin-Up payment schemes case, first reported in February 2026.

A newly-elected Reform UK councillor has been suspended after he appeared to share photos of a Nazi flag and suggested that Britain has a ’subhuman underclass’ in now-deleted social media posts.

Chechen businessman Serazhudin Aktulaev, whose extradition to the United States was recently approved by a court in Cyprus, has been linked to sanctions evasion schemes, petroleum trading and the supply of Western industrial equipment to Russia, according to investigative findings.

Dozens of official rape complaints, many involving victims who were anesthetized, have failed to put disgraced surgeon Vardan Khachatryan behind bars.

A top Philippine politician wanted by the International Criminal Court was no longer taking refuge at the Senate after what his wife called an "escape", the Senate president said on Thursday, a day after chaos erupted over his possible arrest.

A series of announcements by official Palestinian Authority institutions this month has sparked speculation that Yasser Abbas, the millionaire son of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, may be being positioned as a potential successor to his aging father.

Nigel Farage has faced criticism for fully supporting a Christian church leader who preached that homosexuality is an “abomination” and would lead to eternity in hell.