26 minutes ago About sharing Brazilian cities including Sao Paulo are among those to be experiencing high temperatures By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave. Records have been broken in areas including the city Rio de Janeiro…
1 hour ago About sharing Mr Xi faces a host of problems at home as he arrives in San Francisco By Tessa Wong Asia Digital Reporter, BBC News When Xi Jinping stepped off his plane in San Francisco for the Apec summit, it was in circumstances very different to the last time he landed on…
1 hour ago About sharing By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney The pūteketeke has been crowned New Zealand’s Bird of the Century after US talk show host John Oliver’s controversial intervention in the poll. Mr Oliver sparked a global frenzy with an “alarmingly aggressive” campaign for the vulnerable crested grebe. Fewer than 3,000 of the…
6 hours ago About sharing Dozens of residents were waiting outside the tower block as the evening progressed By Steve Mellen & Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley BBC News Hundreds of people living in a tower block were told to leave their homes immediately after “major structural faults” were discovered. Bristol City Council declared a major incident after…
32 minutes ago About sharing By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Cervical cancer will be eliminated by 2040, the NHS in England is promising. NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard will say later that with improved rates of vaccination and screening, the point where almost nobody gets the cancer could be achieved within two decades. But she…
Friends actor Matt LeBlanc says his heart is “heavy” in his first post about Matthew Perry’s death.
Politics / November 14, 2023 The “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” Debate Has Been Ended—by Donald Trump The former president’s rhetoric in a recent speech and on social media veered into openly eliminationist threats. Chris Lehmann Ad Policy Donald Trump speaks at the Florida Freedom Summit at the Gaylord Palms Resort on November 4, 2023,…
The former home secretary isn’t going quietly and isn’t finished yet, says the BBC’s political editor.
30 minutes ago About sharing Suella Braverman, who was sacked as home secretary by Rishi Sunak after she defied No 10 over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests, has sent a scathing open letter to her old boss. Here it is in full: Dear Prime Minister Thank you…
18 minutes ago About sharing By Becky Morton BBC political reporter Suella Braverman has delivered a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak, accusing him of failing to keep his promises over immigration. In a blistering letter to the prime minister, the former home secretary told him “your plan is not working”. She said Mr Sunak had…