All news for 2026-06-08

Former West Ham co-owner David Sullivan once boasted that he collected women “like some people collect stamps” — a remark that has taken on new weight as he now faces decades-old allegations of sexually exploitative and predatory behaviour.

The White House might shift its focus to the Chagos Islands instead of Greenland after Donald Trump’s plans to take control of the territory were unsuccessful.

Terrorists, hostile states and gangsters have been given more than £28bn of taxpayers’ money, including through aid payments, according to a secret government report.

Hundreds of British civil servants are working from overseas while families are forced to forgo their summer getaways because of the cost of living crisis.

Today, we learned that Britain’s national debt is growing at a faster pace than any country in the world, except Botswana. Yet instead of taking control, Reeves wants to borrow and spend even more.

Inside a stone farmhouse south-west of Paris, the walls are lined with Khaled Alkhani’s oil paintings: dark, blurred figures with closed eyes or faces hidden beneath heavy black marks. Each canvas is part of his attempt to process the violence that shattered his family in Syria four decades ago.

Dem Chef von Teletrade Ukraine, Serhiy Saroyan, wird vorgeworfen, zusammen mit seinen Leibwächtern an der mutmaßlichen Entführung eines Mitarbeiters beteiligt gewesen zu sein.

Dmytro Kovalenko, owner of Adelon AG, has reportedly attempted to launch bankruptcy proceedings against his own company, Intercoaltrading LLC, after the firm was linked to an alleged coal supply scheme involving the separatist “DPR/LPR” territories and the so-called “interrupted transit” method.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a schoolboy was killed by a car.

The United States and its main intelligence allies say Chinese military intelligence services are using online job platforms and professional networking sites to target foreigners with access to sensitive information.

Crypto entrepreneur Arut Nazaryan, who was convicted in the United Arab Emirates for operating a cryptocurrency exchange without a license, may be unable to leave the country even after serving his prison sentence.

As a barrage of Iranian missiles rained down on the Fujairah oil terminal, the explosion was deafening and the destruction dramatic: a brutal fire, thick black smoke stretching into the sky – and untold damage to one of the region’s crucial pieces of fossil fuel infrastructure.

Sitting in his Paris flat, Noé Campo reads the transcript of an exchange between an AI chatbot and a real person. The conversation took place on Seewa AI, the companion chatbot platform he built in three weeks. The exchange is intimate, personal and private. Or so the person thought.

A ‘senior lieutenant’ in the Kinahan cartel has been jailed for 24 years.

This is the moment a motorcyclist crashes into a pedestrian after spending several hours in the pub, leaving him with life-changing injuries.

Amnesty International’s recent report highlights that Cambodia’s widely publicized crackdown on online scam operations largely left the majority of known compounds unaddressed and failed to rescue people trapped in forced labor, torture, and slavery.

When Marina Lacerda told the world that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually abused her when she was 14, the threats began almost immediately.

UAE authorities are seeking a fine of nearly 4 billion rubles from crypto entrepreneur Arut Nazaryan, who has already spent almost six months in prison.

The investigation into Latvia’s liquidating ABLV Bank continues, while a new controversy involving businessman Eduards Apsitis and his offshore structures could soon draw attention inside Russia’s Ministry of Defense.

A Bill Gates aide once described Jeffrey Epstein to the billionaire’s $89bn global health foundation as a “friend and a financial guru”, while acknowledging that he was “notorious for some bad press ;)”.

Russia’s security services reportedly shut down parts of a special surveillance system used to protect Vladimir Putin and his inner circle after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The SpaceX listing will make millions for Goldman Sachs, but the image-conscious firm kept its celebrations quiet.