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Updated: 27/09/2025 – 12:00 GMT+2
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 27th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
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Two people have died attempting to cross the English Channel on Saturday morning, French officials have told AFP news agency.
The incident happened overnight off the coast of northern France, when about 100 people set off by makeshift boat to try to get to the UK, authorities said.
Sixty people from the attempt were rescued and are “are currently being cared for by civil protection,” according to French official Isabelle Fradin-Thirode cited by the AFP news agency.
A couple and their child suffering from moderate hypothermia were rushed to a hospital in Boulogne, she added.
French newspaper La Voix Du Nord reported that the two who died were both women.
The incident overnight happened south of the beaches of Neufchâtel-Hardelot in the Pas-de-Calais region.
At least 25 people have died so far this year trying to make the dangerous crossing in small boats.
Earlier this month, three people died – likely in a crush on the bottom of a packed boat – off the coast of Calais during another attempted crossing.
Last year, 50 people died while trying to cross the Channel, according to incidents recorded by the French coastguard.
More than 30,000 people have reached the UK in small boats so far in 2025 and more than 50,000 have crossed since Labour came into power in July 2024.
The UK government has come under increased pressure over the number of small boats crossing into the UK and asylum seeker applications.
Recently France and the UK agreed on a “one in, one out” returns deal, which was designed as a deterrent to stop boats from crossing the Channel. It proposes that for each migrant the UK returns to France, another migrant who had not attempted a Channel crossing but with a strong case for asylum in Britain will come the other way.
Sir Keir Starmer has previously called the crossings “totally unacceptable” and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said the “vile” people-smugglers behind them are “wreaking havoc on our borders”.
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Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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27/09/2025 – 11:48 GMT+2
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Billionaire Elon Musk and Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family were named in new documents released by Congressional Democrats that relate to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In a series of more than 8,500 new files made public by Democrat lawmakers on the oversight committee of the US House of Representatives, multiple prominent figures were revealed to have been associated with the convicted sex offender.
The new files, which included phone message logs, flight logs, transaction records, financial ledgers and daily schedules, revealed that Tesla, SpaceX and X boss Elon Musk was invited to the infamous Epstein island in December 2014.
A note from Epstein’s schedules read “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)”
Musk had previously stated that he was invited to Epstein’s island – Little Saint James in the US Virgin Islands – but that he had declined the invitation. He’s since maintained his innocence, stating that he kept no connection with the late sex offender and denying any wrongdoing.
Separately, a flight log from the year 2000 names Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, as one of the passengers.
Details reveal the flight, which took off on 12 May, flew from Teterboro in New Jersey to West Palm Beach in Florida. The manifest also notes that Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime partner and convicted sex trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell were also on board the plane.
On 11 May, 2000, the Buckingham Palace said on its website that Prince Andrew had flown to New York to attend a reception for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. A later press release announced his return to the UK on 15 May.
One heavily redacted financial ledger revealed that payments were made for massages for an “Andrew” in February and May 2000. It’s still unclear if the “Andrew” referred to in the ledger is indeed Prince Andrew. The British Royal has strenuously denied any wrongdoing and has yet to comment on this latest revelation.
An entry released by the congressional committee also revealed that Peter Thiel, an entrepreneur and prominent Republican Party donor, was scheduled to have lunch with Epstein in November 2017.
Former advisor to US President Donald Trump and political commentator Steve Bannon was also mentioned in the new files, as an entry names him for a breakfast plan on 17 February 2019.
Additionally, the files also mention plans for a breakfast party with Microsoft founder Bill Gates in December 2014.
It’s not been suggested that those named in the partial records submitted by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate to the oversight committee were aware of the alleged criminal activity for which the financier was later arrested for.
Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He and Maxwell, were accused of trafficking and soliciting young girls for sexual acts on their private island for high-profile clientele, which included lawmakers, entrepreneurs and celebrities.
Maxwell, a British socialite, is currently serving a 20-year sentence in a sex trafficking scheme. She has recently petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn her conviction.
Her lawyers have stated that they would “welcome” a pardon from US President Donald Trump, who previously called Maxwell a “friend”, and wished her well in her proceedings.
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Heavy metal band Judas Priest have released a charity single featuring the late Ozzy Osbourne to raise money for Parkinson’s disease charities.
The former Black Sabbath frontman was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological condition in 2019, and died in July, weeks after a farewell gig at Aston Villa.
Judas Priest, who formed in Birmingham in the 1960s, decided to release a charity version of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs after they were unable to join the band, and other metal groups, at the show due to prior commitments.
Band member Glenn Tipton, who has also been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, features on guitar with Rob Halford and Osbourne taking alternate vocal lines on the song.
The track was initially conceived as a tribute video for Osbourne and Black Sabbath before the band suggested turning it into a charity single.
Osbourne and his fellow original Black Sabbath members, Tony Iommi, Terence “Geezer” Butler and Bill Ward, were the last to appear on stage as part of a star-studded line-up for the Back To The Beginning concert in July.
Among the other bands performing were Anthrax, Metallica and Guns N’Roses.
Osbourne’s widow Sharon and children Aimee, Jack and Kelly visited floral tributes laid at Black Sabbath bridge following his death on 22 July in a cortege that weaved through the streets of his home city.
Judas Priest’s rendition of the Black Sabbath classic was released on Friday with all profits donated to the Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s.
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