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• Philip Youngは、当初、児童のわいせつ画像を作成した容疑を否認していたが、その後すべての罪状を認める方針に転じた • 元妻に対して薬物を投与し、強姦や性的暴行を加えた50件近くの容疑を認めていた元Conservative評議員が、児童のわいせつ画像を作成したという追加の罪についても有罪を認めた。 • Philip Young（49歳）は1月、Winchester crown courtにて、11件の強姦罪と、匿名権を放棄した元妻Joanne Young（48歳）を昏睡させる目的で薬物を投与した11件の罪について有罪を認めた。

• Anthony OdiongはWacoにおいて、精神的に脆弱な3人の女性信者への性的虐待の疑いで告発されています。 • Texasで、精神的に脆弱な3人の女性信者を性的虐待したという刑事告発に基づく刑事裁判がこの聖職者に迫る中、New Orleans archdioceseが、彼が市外に建設を支援した礼拝堂からこの司祭の名前を削除する計画を進めていることがGuardianの取材で明らかになりました。 • Anthony Odiongは、以前奉職していたTexasで当局から刑事告訴される数年前の2020年、隣接する教会の主任司祭を務めていた際に、Luling, LouisianaにあるOur Lady of Guadalupe Healing Chapelを建設し開堂するために60万ドルを調達したと報じられています。

燃料価格の高騰やどんよりとした天気予報にもかかわらずドライバーはひるんでいないようだが、一方で工事により鉄道利用客には遅れが生じている。燃料価格の高騰や、連休を台無しにしかねない晴天の終わりの兆しにもかかわらず、英国のドライバーはここ数年で最も混雑する5月のバンクホリデーの交通渋滞に備えるよう告げられている。自動車団体RACの調査によると、金曜日から月曜日までの連休中に1,900万件以上の車でのレジャー旅行が見込まれており、これは2016年以来最多となる。今週末は工事によって鉄道の運行も乱れる可能性が高い。続きを読む...

Juvisy-sur-Orge を走行していた車両が道路から逸脱して川に転落した 見習い運転手が運転するバスが駐車中の車両と衝突したのち川に転落し、Paris 近郊の Seine から4人が救出された 検察当局によると、バスはフランスの首都の南東にある Juvisy-sur-Orge の町を走行中、道路を外れて Seine に転落した 続きを読む...

• 4月29日に発表されたNielsen Media Researchのデータによると、FOX Business Network (FBN) は2026年4月のビジネスデー、マーケットアワー、および終日（トータルデイ）の番組編成において、視聴者数でCNBCを上回った。 • FBNの看板番組である「Varney & Co.」と「Kudlow」は、テレビにおけるビジネス番組のトップ2としての地位を維持し、それぞれCNBCの競合番組を50カ月連続、55カ月連続で上回るという記録を達成した。 • この視聴率での勝利は、Federal Reserveによる重要な政策発表や市場のボラティリティ（変動性）が高まった時期において、金融ニュース市場におけるFOX Businessの圧倒的な競争優位性を浮き彫りにしている。

• 活動家は、公共空間保護命令（PSPO）が幅広い日常活動を犯罪化するために利用されていると主張している。 • 新たな「おせっかい」命令の下で、地方評議会の5つのうち1つが暴言を禁止しており、これは2022年の20に1つから増加している。 • Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Lifeによる新しい報告書では、元々は深刻な反社会的行動に対処することを目的としていた公共空間保護命令（PSPO）が、イングランドとウェルズの評議会によって、グループで立っていること、叫ぶこと、石を拾うことなど、幅広い日常活動を犯罪化するために利用されていることが判明した。

• ブルーバッジの保持者や介護者は、障害を装っていると考える見知らぬ人々から、嫌がらせや撮影、脅迫を受けていると報告している。 • 英国で給付金への反対論が主流になる中、日常生活でブルーバッジを利用する障害者たちが、嫌がらせや不当な追及、さらには暴行まで受けていると述べている。 • 現在、英国では約300万人がブルーバッジを保有しており、イングランドの成人の15人に1人が該当する。よりアクセスの良い駐車スペースへの駐車を可能にするこの制度の対象者が増えたことで、一部では不正利用や詐欺への警告が出ている。

• スカイ・ロバーツ氏は、自身の妹であるジュフレさんが暴行を訴えたアンドリュー王子の兄であるチャールズ国王が、被害者との面会を行わなかったことに対し、生存者が「今もなお声を届けるために闘い続けている」と述べた。 • 故バージニア・ジュフレさんの兄であるスカイ・ロバーツ氏は、今週の米国訪問において、チャールズ3世がジェフリー・エプスタインによる虐待の生存者たちと面会しなかったことを批判した。 • ロバーツ氏は、「生存者たちは議員たちと共にここにあり、今もなお声を届けるために闘い、真の責任追及を求めている。一方で、こうしたシステムに関わった多くの権力者たちは、生存者と向き合い、認めることを避け、手の届かないところに留まっている」と述べた。さらに、「国王が生存者の側に立つというメッセージを世界に発信する機会であってほしかった」と付け加えた。

CCTV footage circulating on social media showed children at the Little Aresha daycare centre in Yogyakarta, most under two, lying on the floor wearing only diapers with their hands and feet bound with rags.

Lauren Ashley Mastrosa given 18-month community corrections order after book was read by handful of advance readersThe author behind an offensive novel depicting toddler role-play has been convicted but spared jail for penning child abuse material.Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, a 34-year-old former marketing executive for a Christian charity, wrote Daddy’s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods and published it through an online pre-release in March 2025. Continue reading...

Police warn of violent pornography and ‘toxic’ influencers as suicides outstrip homicides for third year runningThe first teenage girl has been identified as having been driven to kill herself after domestic violence, as police chiefs blamed violent pornography and “toxic” influencers for being behind a rise in teen abuse.Suicides after domestic abuse have outstripped homicides for the third year running, according to the Domestic Homicide Project, which records deaths in England and Wales after domestic abuse. Continue reading...

• Delta Air Lines reported first-quarter net income of $1.8 billion, up 22% year-over-year, benefiting from strong leisure and business travel demand with average fares rising 8% despite lower capacity growth across the industry. • CEO Ed Bastian stated that forward bookings through summer 2026 indicate "resilient demand," with premium cabin bookings up 15%, offsetting concerns about potential economic slowdown and suggesting corporate travel spending remains solid. • The strong results bolstered airline sector sentiment, lifting Southwest Airlines and United Airlines stocks by 2.4% and 1.9% respectively on optimism about sustained pricing power and margin expansion through peak summer travel season.

Students aged 12 to 15 steered bus to safety and called for help after driver lost consciousness from asthma attackMiddle school students in Mississippi acted quickly to halt their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a highway, prompting the operator to declare: “They saved my life.”The bus in question had just left the Hancock middle school in the Mississippi community of Kiln on Wednesday when the driver, Leah Taylor, suffered an asthma attack and lost consciousness. Continue reading...

Kendrick Guidry, alone among judges, initially ruled that the state supreme court’s decision to uphold a ‘lookback window’ for abuse claims did not set a binding precedentOnly one judge in Louisiana has ruled in favor of the Catholic church’s ongoing attempts to strike down a law there which allowed old abuse claims their day in court – even after a state supreme court decision upheld the constitutionality of that so-called “lookback window”.But now, that judge – Kendrick J Guidry of Lake Charles – is being forced to acknowledge that his ruling benefited a specific church on whose finance committee he sits, giving him a direct financial interest that required his recusal under the state’s judicial code. Continue reading...

Labour MPs are reportedly urging colleagues to demand Burnham’s return in order to position him as Starmer’s eventual successorIf Keir Starmer is looking for a saviour to keep him in No 10 after the May elections and the scandal of the Mandelson saga, there is an unlikely figure in the north-west who might help him – temporarily.It has been the week where the prime minister seemed at his most isolated. But Labour MPs told the Guardian they were urging colleagues not to depose Starmer next month, and were instead preparing to demand that Andy Burnham return to parliament in order to succeed him before the next general election. Continue reading...

Police allegedly found images on iCloud account of singer accused of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas HernandezA Los Angeles prosecutor said that the singer D4vd, who was charged this week in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, was in possession of a “significant amount of child pornography”.Police allegedly found the images on the iCloud account of the 21-year-old singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke. Continue reading...

HMRC owed more than £640,00 by company that advised clients such as TikTok, GSK and PalantirPeter Mandelson’s former consultancy business, Global Counsel, went bust owing £4.6m – including more than £600,000 to the taxman – a report by the group’s administrators reveals.The company, which provided advice to high-profile clients including Chinese-owned TikTok, US tech business Palantir and UK pharmaceutical firm GSK, collapsed into administration in February, after it lost a series of accounts over the peer’s relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

Analyst who worked on Internet Watch Foundation report says content exists ‘across all social media platforms’ and is ‘very easy’ to findThe number of commercial child sexual abuse websites has doubled in a year as experts say that criminal gangs are making “huge profits” from online sexual exploitation.According to data collected by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), 15,031 commercial child sexual abuse sites were found in 2025, compared with 7,028 found in 2024, a 114% increase. Continue reading...

Partner of soldier accused of war crimes says the couple discussed possibility of moving overseas to ‘create some normalcy in our lives’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith was planning to leave Australia to live overseas and had a business class flight out of the country booked in four days’ time when he was arrested at Sydney airport this month, court documents allege, with investigators telling a court “his willingness to return to Australia to face prosecution cannot be judged”.Roberts-Smith was ultimately granted bail last week under strict conditions, a move opposed by prosecutors who said there was potential concern he was a flight risk and might try to avoid ever having to face trial for a series of alleged murders he committed in Afghanistan. Continue reading...

• The number of small businesses in the United States continues to grow amid entrepreneurial optimism. • Owners report increasing difficulty securing startup capital needed to launch and expand operations. • Policies associated with President Trump are cited by business leaders as dampening access to financing for new entrepreneurs pursuing the American Dream.

Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has ‘never been intoxicated on the job’US politics live – latest updatesHouse judiciary Democrats have launched a formal inquiry into FBI director, Kash Patel’s alleged drinking habits, demanding he complete a standardized alcohol abuse assessment and submit the results to Congress.In a letter sent on Tuesday, led by Jamie Raskin, a Maryland representative, Democrats on the committee called on Patel to take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Audit) – a 10-question World Health Organization screening tool used to identify harmful patterns of drinking – along with a sworn statement attesting to his answers. Lawmakers also requested all security clearance questionnaires Patel has completed since taking the role. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Corrective Services investigates how Richard Guilliatt of The Australian was able to interview Rob and Karen Gilfillan for Shadow of DoubtFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCorrective Services New South Wales is investigating how a journalist from The Australian was able to interview a man and a woman convicted of abusing their daughter for a podcast that raised questions about their guilt.After legal restrictions were lifted last month the victim said the podcast had been highly detrimental to her mental health. Continue reading...

ABF, which owns Kingsmill, Twinings and Patak’s, to demerge fashion chain to maximise shareholder returnsBusiness live – latest updatesPrimark is to break free from its sister food company, which owns Twinings, Kingsmill and Patak’s, next year despite warning that the conflict in the Middle East is likely to hit consumer spending.The fashion chain’s owner, Associated British Foods (ABF), confirmed the plan to split off Primark from the rest of the group, first mooted last year. Continue reading...

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktankEurope’s “stone age” system of booking train tickets makes it needlessly difficult for travellers to avoid polluting flights, a report has found.Booking equivalent train tickets is “difficult or impossible” on almost half of the EU’s busiest international air routes, analysis from the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank shows. Continue reading...

Preston Davey died aged 13 months after ‘routine abuse’ by Jamie Varley and his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, jury hearsA baby boy was “routinely ill-treated, sexually abused and physically assaulted” before he was killed by a secondary school teacher adopting him, a jury has heard.Jamie Varley, the teacher, 37, and his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, were in the process of adopting Preston Davey. Continue reading...

The 82-year-old was accused of abusing girls in the 1960s but was acquitted in Perth despite judge finding the alleged victim was telling the truthGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe former champion footballer Barry Cable has been acquitted of a slew of historical child sexual abuse charges despite a judge finding the alleged victim was likely telling the truth.The 82-year-old faced a judge-only criminal trial over allegations he abused a girl aged about eight or nine at his family home in the late 1960s. Continue reading...

Owner of X summoned along with former CEO Linda Yaccarino over investigation by cybercrime unitBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesElon Musk has been summoned to Paris, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content.The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino – the former chief executive of X – were on Monday summoned for “voluntary interviews”, while other employees of the platform were scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Continue reading...

Retail analysts say breaking up food and fashion group would make sense in challenging business environmentPrimark may break free from Kingsmill, Twinings and the sugar business this week when Associated British Foods announces plans on a mooted demerger.The potential split comes at a tricky time for the group controlled by the billionaire Weston family, with its fashion and food arms facing tough competition and rising costs. Continue reading...