15 minutes ago About sharing Ihor Kolomoisky arrived at court in a blue FC Dnipro tracksuit jacket on Saturday By James Gregory BBC News One of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs is to be held in custody for two months on suspicion of fraud and money laundering. Ihor Kolomoisky is alleged to have transferred $14m (£11.1m)…
1 hour ago About sharing Staff at Tesco stores are to be offered body cameras amid a rise in violent attacks, the supermarket’s chief executive has said. The company has seen physical assaults increase by a third since last year. It mirrors findings by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) published earlier this year, which found…
Green shafts of light from a meteor were caught on camera as it passed over the city of Erzurum.
Mo Farah’s final race in his home city of London ended with the four-time Olympic champion finishing fourth in The Big Half. The 40-year-old stayed in touch with the leading pack for the first half of Sunday’s elite men’s race but dropped back after about 30 minutes. Jack Rowe claimed victory in a personal best…
18 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Festival goers struggle through Burning Man mud bath By David Willis & Kathryn Armstrong BBC News, Burning Man in Nevada & London An investigation has been launched into the death of a person during torrential rain at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada. No further…
47 minutes ago About sharing By Sergey Goryashko, Elizaveta Fokht and Sofiya Samokhina BBC Russian Russia’s diplomats were once a key part of President Putin’s foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed. In the years leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin’s…
16 minutes ago About sharing We’ll spend what it takes to ensure safe schools – Chancellor Jeremy Hunt By Graeme Baker BBC News Jeremy Hunt has said the government “will spend what it takes” to make schools safe from crumbly concrete. The chancellor did not give a figure but told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura…
Festival-goers are told to conserve their food as access in and out of the Nevada event is shut down.
4 minutes ago About sharing Head teacher Caroline Evans and her staff sit in a temporary staffroom in the corridor of Parks Primary School in Leicester By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News Headteachers in England are in a race this weekend to find ways to reopen their schools after being told to shut buildings made with…
The comedian says his new attitude is that “life’s too short” after undergoing cancer treatment.