Over £100,000 has been raised for a three-year-old boy attacked by a crocodile at Johnsons of Old Hurst in Cambridgeshire on June 18. The boy underwent seven surgeries at Addenbrooke's Hospital, and a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Nigel Farage faces pressure to clarify his ties to George Cottrell, a convicted fraudster, who has been frequently seen at Reform UK events and trips. Labour questions Farage's "personal and financial dependence" on Cottrell, who has reportedly supported his lifestyle.
Michael Phillips, who claims to have the world's smallest penis at 0.38 inches, has booked a procedure to increase his girth. His GoFundMe campaign raised nearly $13,000 from over 250 donors. A Beverly Hills surgeon offered a free procedure, but Phillips has already scheduled one closer to home.
Caitlin Leggett, 24, died on June 13, 2026, after a sudden brain bleed and strokes, just weeks after launching a fundraiser for life-saving leukaemia treatment. The fundraiser exceeded £100,000, with remaining funds to be donated to charity.
Amitoj Kaur, a 24-year-old Indian student and the sole fatality of a recent apartment fire in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada, was the primary financial support for her family in India. A fundraiser has been launched to repatriate her body.
GoFundMe has closed an online fundraiser for Kian Neal, a Tennessee teen accused of murdering sex offender Robert George Locke. The platform cited its policy against supporting fundraisers for alleged violent crimes, even during ongoing investigations. The goal was $30,000 for Neal's legal defense.
A Texas nurse, Dasha Kilpatrick, faces backlash and support after a viral video showed her Islamophobic tirade against two Muslim women in an H-E-B store. A fundraiser for her has raised over $85,000, with supporters calling her 'brave'.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek reportedly secured $7.4 billion in its maiden fundraise with a unique condition: investors must pledge not to poach its AI talent. The Hangzhou-based company, now valued over $50 billion, faces intense competition for engineers from tech giants like Tencent, ByteDance, and Alibaba.
Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong are holding a month-long fundraiser to support families impacted by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines. The campaign aims to raise HK$20,000 for urgent needs like food, water, and medicine in affected regions, particularly Mindanao.
Protesters clashed with supporters of Pauline Hanson outside a One Nation fundraiser in Melbourne on Friday. One man was given a move on notice by police. The event was relocated due to safety concerns over planned counter-protests.
One Nation has relocated a fundraising event in Melbourne to an undisclosed location after the original venue, Giorgio Casa, withdrew due to planned protest activity. Police stated they were unaware of specific threats, attributing the decision to the venue.
One Nation's Melbourne fundraiser, featuring Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce, was relocated due to planned protests, with Victoria Police noting concerns but no specific threats.
An 85-year-old AMC theater worker in Tennessee, Mary Ellen Eron, received over $146,000 from a viral GoFundMe campaign launched by a stranger who was inspired by her dedication to her job. The fundraiser, initiated by Brooklyn Green, garnered over 7,500 donations in 48 hours, aiming to help Eron enjoy a deserved retirement.
Blackstone has successfully raised $13.1 billion for its latest Asia private equity fund, surpassing its $10 billion target and marking its largest PE fundraise in the region. The fund will focus on high-conviction investment themes in the fast-growing Asia Pacific market.
Alumni of Prefectural Kokura High School have launched a support group and crowdfunding campaign for HK Sports Boxing Gym in Kitakyushu, aiming to help boxer Kyosuke Okamoto and foster world champions from the region.
Aditya Birla Capital will use Rs 3,500 crore from its Rs 4,000 crore preferential issue for business expansion, with Rs 500 crore for corporate needs. Grasim Industries will invest Rs 2,880 crore and IFC Rs 920 crore.
81-year-old Twitch streamer Sue Jacquot, known as GrammaCrackers, was swatted during a 15-day Minecraft livestream fundraiser for her grandson's cancer treatment. Police responded to a fake emergency call, but Jacquot remained positive, even finding the experience "kinda fun."
GoFundMe reports a record number of rent-related fundraisers in the UK, with donations up 60% since 2022. Individuals are turning to crowdfunding to cover rent, household bills, and avoid eviction as housing costs and application refusals for discretionary housing payments rise.
It was the perfect split-screen for the race to succeed Donald Trump – so long as your name is Marco Rubio and not J.D. Vance. In a packed White House briefing room, journalists shouted over each other in a bid to get a question from the US secretary of state. At the same time Vice-President Vance – Rubio’s most likely rival for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination – was hundreds of kilometres away from the action at a political fundraiser in Oklahoma. “Guys, this is chaos,” said Rubio as...
Green leader said he hosted fundraisers for the Red Cross but accepts he should not have described himself as a spokesperson for itGood morning. Zack Polanski was largely unknown until he became the Green party leader in September last year and since then, as his party has soared in the polls, there has been intense scrutiny of his pre-politics career. The best-known embarrassing revelation about his past is the fact that he once told a woman he could enlarge her breasts if she listened to his hypnotherapy spiel. Nigel Farage, who also leads a dispruption party enjoying spectacular success, has scandals in his past too, and Polanski’s allies would argue that they are worse. Farage took a £5m donation from a political supporter which he did not declare, he still has not provided as good explanation as to how his partner was able to afford to buy a home in Farage’s Clacton constituency and arguably he told 30 million women that he could enlarge the size of their bank balances if they listened to his spiel on Brexit. Guardian readers can decide for themselves who is more dodgy.But, as we tell our children, life isn’t fair. And it certainly isn’t fair for leftwing politicians campaigning in an environment where the rightwing media have considerable influence. Polanski discovered that again last night when the Times printed a story with various claims about him, of which the main one related to an allegation about his embellishing his CV. Here is our version by Jessica Elgot.I hosted various fundraisers for the British Red Cross, and indeed I would go on stage and speak for them about the amazing work they do tackling humanitarian crises, on the climate crisis and indeed for refugees all around the world.I used the wrong word and I accept that.It feels some of these stories feel like scraping the barrel to go back 10, 15 years.I’ve had so many friends – I’m literally talking maybe 20 or 30 in the last few weeks – who have phoned me and said a Times journalist has been phoning and they’ve been desperately trying to find things about your past. They asked me lots of questions and seem disappointed that I didn’t have some juicy, dirty gossip. Continue reading...
The 2026 Met Gala takes place May 4 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring 'Fashion is Art' dress code for the 'Costume Art' exhibition — the first show in the new Condé M. Nast Galleries. Co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, the event raised a record $31 million last year. Vogue will livestream the invite-only celebrity spectacle starting at 6 p.m. Eastern.
An Indian-origin student from Andhra Pradesh, Chandu Iraganaboyina, studying in Chicago, has allegedly died by suicide. Police are investigating how he obtained a firearm on a non-immigrant visa, with friends and family citing severe financial stress as a potential cause. The Telugu community in the US has initiated a fundraiser to repatriate his body.
Anthropic is seeking approximately $50 billion in what is likely its last private funding round before an anticipated IPO later this year, according to sources. The AI company is targeting a valuation of about $900 billion, which could exceed OpenAI's $852 billion valuation. The round is expected to close within two weeks, with some early investors skipping this round to potentially cash out during the IPO. Anthropic's revenue run rate is reportedly around $40 billion.
Anthropic is raising a roughly $50 billion funding round with a 48-hour deadline for investor allocations, targeting a $900 billion valuation that would surpass rival OpenAI. Sources say the round is expected to close within two weeks and represents likely the company's last private raise before an anticipated IPO later this year. Early backers from 2024 or earlier are skipping this round to potentially cash out during the IPO. The company's annual revenue run rate is reportedly closer to $40 billion than the announced $30 billion.
