All news for 2026-06-15

A drug dealer who showed off his luxury lifestyle on Instagram by posing with Rolex watches, driving a Lamborghini and splashing more than £1,200 in cash on a meal at Salt Bae’s restaurant has been jailed.

Two men found guilty over a series of arson attacks on property linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer were instructed to do so by a Russian-linked social media channel.

A violent rapist who carried out a catalogue of abuse and brutality towards women has been jailed for nine years after putting victims through “a horrific ordeal”.

Police are treating a huge blaze at a derelict warehouse in West Lothian as deliberate as investigations continue.

A two-year-old boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a car ploughed through a playground at a nursery in Cheshire.

The Northern Ireland First Minister queried whether the move was ‘more about internal Labour Party politics than what is right’.

An 18-year-old man has admitted to throwing a bottle at police during a Henry Nowak protest in Southampton which turned violent. The teenager is now banned from attending gatherings.

The family of Igor Yusufov, the former Russian energy minister often described as Dmitry Medvedev’s “wallet,” has reportedly transferred part of its Russian assets to nominee owners. The founders and directors of those companies have worked for the Yusufov family for many years.

Russian oligarchs, billionaires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1,000 offshore entities who are illegally flouting the land control registry, The Ferret can reveal.

In Almaty, Russian citizen Ilyas Karimov presents himself as a lawyer and an “assistant to the Russian ambassador.”

Four people were killed at a World Heritage site in Kyiv after Vladimir Putin launched a wave of missiles in a massive aerial attack.

Oliver Tree’s final days before his tragic death in a horror helicopter crash have been revealed in heartbreaking videos.

Having read about how much easy money can be made as an OnlyFans model, Rebecca was excited when she joined and got off to a good start.

Europe’s STOXX 600 hit a record high on Monday, boosted by a relief rally across most sectors after the United States and Iran reached a preliminary agreement ‌that would open the Strait of Hormuz and end the three-month-long war in the Middle East.

A US lawyer who sued tech giants Meta and Google for $6 million in a historic case after they were found liable for social media addiction has told LBC the UK ban is a "landmark moment" and said tech firms must be hit in the pocket.

Around 11 skydivers and their pilot have ‘perished’ in a plane crash close to a rural airport.

Roy Hattersley, former deputy leader of the Labour party from 1983 to 1992, has died aged 93.

Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the US-Iran peace deal as a “hugely important step forward in ending the war” as he stressed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain “fully and permanently open”.