10 hours ago About sharing By Nathan Williams & Iain Watson, political correspondent BBC News Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out any version of a wealth tax on the richest in society should Labour win the next general election. She told the Sunday Telegraph extra money for public services would have to come from…
7 hours ago About sharing By Ece Goksedef BBC News Students will be banned from wearing abaya, a loose-fitting full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, in France’s state-run schools, the education minister has said. The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September. France has a strict…
18 minutes ago About sharing By Christy Cooney BBC News Police must investigate every theft and follow all reasonable leads to catch offenders, the home secretary has said. Suella Braverman says it is “completely unacceptable” that criminals are often “effectively free to break certain laws”. She wants officers to use evidence from smart doorbells and…
18 minutes ago About sharing Brandon Flowers of the Killers By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter at Leeds Festival Leeds Festival closed on Sunday with a heady mix of rock, rap and pop from the Killers, Central Cee and the 1975. The Killers concluded their set with two consecutive different renditions of their eternal anthem Mr…
Great Britain won 10 medals in Budapest to equal their best-ever haul at a World Athletics Championships. Keely Hodgkinson and the 4x400m relay teams won medals on the final day to help Britain finish seventh in the final medal table. Britain recorded a haul of two golds, three silver and five bronze medals after nine…
1 hour ago About sharing By Antoinette Radford BBC News A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of Black people, police have said. Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a…
The windscreen of Aston Villa’s team bus was hit by a brick as the side were travelling back to the Midlands following their victory at Burnley. The incident took place at junction 10 of the M65 after Sunday’s Premier League match, which Villa won 3-1. In a statement Burnley said the club are “relieved to…
Passersby fought to help them when they saw they were in trouble, but they were later pronounced dead.
4 hours ago About sharing Band-e-Amir, seen here in May this year, was Afghanistan’s first national park By Antoinette Radford BBC News The Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province. Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue and vice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women had not been observing hijab inside…
34 minutes ago About sharing Cruise ship and freight ship collide amid storm in Mallorca A cruise ship broke free from moorings and collided with a freight vessel during a storm in Mallorca, Spain. Passengers on Britannia, a P&O Cruises ship based in Southampton, described “being pushed ashore by tugs whilst confined to our cabins”…