All news for 2026-05-26

A teenage girl has died at a country park in north Warwickshire.

A serving police officer raped two women and subjected a third woman to prolonged abuse.

On 14 December 2025, a mass shooting on Bondi Beach in Sydney became one of the deadliest incidents of its kind in Australia.

More than a million people in the UK now have second jobs as rising costs, insecure work, and industry changes push workers into a growing gig economy.

Jewelry Empire Without Breaks: Despite Suspicions of Smuggling Worth Hundreds of Millions, Lux Groups Brand and Its Actual Beneficiary Oleksandr Litskevych Continue Trading Luxury in the Heart of Kyiv.

Major European airlines could face an additional cost hit of at least €1.5 billion each if Brussels extends carbon pricing to flights departing the EU, based on an analysis of a proposal to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Ellen Roome will join bereaved families at No10 on Tuesday to urge the Prime Minister to restrict social media use for children until the "companies responsible have fixed it and proven it is safe".

Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time, has died aged 95.

Two teenagers have died in separate water-related incidents during the record-breaking heat on Bank Holiday Monday.

Rape survivor Gisele Pelicot has said she is “deeply shocked” at the punishment handed down to three teenage boys who avoided jail for their roles in the rape of two girls.

Eight hundred thieves and 600 sexual offenders have been removed from the UK in the past year, according to the Home Office.

Linton Weirich, who was at HMP Wandsworth, spoke out to expose corruption, saying: “Officers don’t run jails any more — prisoners do.”

The former Deputy PM took to the beach yesterday on the hottest May Bank Holiday on record.

Pope Leo has called on governments to do more to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in his first major teaching since becoming pontiff.

A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records.

The British security services were involved in formulating the controversial Legacy Act, which offered an amnesty to soldiers and paramilitaries despite MI5’s role in many killings during the Northern Ireland Troubles, it can be revealed.

In mid-March, online reports began to circulate alleging that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau had detained businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, who owns agricultural and mining companies.

After startling images showed peaceful humanitarian activists who had attempted to deliver aid to Gaza arriving back in Istanbul on stretchers late last week, stories have continued to emerge over the weekend of systematic beatings, torture, and rape in Israeli detention.

Peter Murrell was one half of the most powerful political couple Scotland has ever seen.

The US has launched ’self-defensive’ strikes on missile sites and boats attempting to lay mines in southern Iran, according to the US military.