All news for 2026-05-06

More than 100,000 people have arrived by small boat since Suella Braverman's flagship law to end Channel crossings passed, latest figures show.

Labour is preparing for record-breaking losses in Thursday's local elections in England, which could be decisive for Keir Starmer's future as prime minister.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was grilled by congressional investigators Wednesday about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein following revelations that his contact with the late convicted sex offender extended years beyond what he initially claimed.

London announced sanctions on 35 new targets to block the supply of restricted components to Russian drone factories.

This is the moment the war finally arrived at the front gates of Vladimir Putin's £1 billion clifftop mega-mansion.

Simon Cowell has revealed he once spent £3,000,000 on 'burlesque dancing vaginas,' leading me to go down one of the weirdest Internet rabbit holes of my career.

Cameron Diaz was the bearer of some wholesome news this week: she welcomed her third child with her husband, Good Charlotte rockstar Benji Madden.

THIS is the moment a teacher accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a baby he was adopting wailed “it's my fault” to nurses, a court heard.

FED up with your local councillor failing to fix the potholes? Thinking about voting them out tomorrow?

New data on London's property market has raised fresh alarms over a surge in purchases of homes valued above ?1 million.

The former Labour MSP is facing allegations of narrowly avoiding hitting a pedestrian while driving under the influence in Edinburgh.

The strike was the first to hit Beirut's suburbs since the April 16 ceasefire, although hostilities in the south of Lebanon have not halted.

US Central Command posted on social media that the tanker, called the M/T Hasna, was trying to circumvent the blockade of Iranian ports.

Two British people are self-isolating at home after potentially being exposed to hantavirus aboard the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak.

Following the publication of an investigation into the assets of Yaroslav Holovachov's family.

On the morning of October 17, 2025, Cyprus was shaken by news of the murder in Limassol of one of the leaders of the local mafia, Stavros Demosthenous. He was shot near his home in the Agios Athanasios area.

A court in Russia's Novosibirsk has sentenced physicists Valery Zvegintsev and Vladislav Galkin to 12.5 years each in a maximum-security penal colony on treason charges, according to a report by the newspaper Kommersant.

They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival.

A paranoid cannabis user who tortured his vulnerable 93-year-old friend over a period of more than 24 hours has been found guilty of his murder.

A warship that will provide "world-class" defense for the UK has set sail from Scotland, the Royal Navy has said.

The Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale was forced temporarily to shut its doors on the second day of the preview after the activist group Pussy Riot.

Three people with suspected hantavirus, including a British doctor who is a crew member, have been medically evacuated from a cruise ship.

Israel's military has launched strikes in Beirut, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.

Reform UK has repeatedly declined to respond to medias questions about why its leader, Nigel Farage, met and was photographed with a group of far-right activists, including a man later convicted of violently storming an anti-racism meeting at a church.