3 hours ago About sharing Watch: Bulldozers tear down Afghan houses in Islamabad By Caroline Davies Pakistan correspondent Pakistan has started to arrest Afghans as the country begins a nationwide crackdown on foreign nationals it says are in the country illegally. Thousands of Afghans in Pakistan have made their way back to Afghanistan in the…
39 minutes ago About sharing By Kevin Peachey & Tom Espiner BBC News House prices had the biggest monthly rise in October for more than a year, according to the Nationwide. However, they were still down sharply on a year ago, the UK’s biggest building society said. The 0.9% rise in prices was most likely…
7 minutes ago About sharing Heidi Klum ruffles feathers as a peacock By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News Halloween has come and let’s face it, it wouldn’t be spooky season without celebrities doing the most to serve us looks for the occasion. Supermodel Heidi Klum proves again why she is the queen of Halloween, strutting her…
1 hour ago About sharing Cdr Julian Bennett has been suspended on full pay since July 2020 A senior Met Police officer who drew up the force’s anti-drugs strategy has been sacked for refusing to provide a urine sample for cannabis testing. The actions of Cdr Julian Bennett, who joined the Met in 1976, were…
14 minutes ago About sharing A roof was ripped off a house and cars were damaged as a tornado hit Littlehampton on Saturday night By Tim Dodd BBC England Weather warnings have been upgraded, roads closed and people told not to stockpile goods as England and the Channel Islands prepare for Storm Ciarán. The Met…
6 hours ago About sharing People pick through the rubble in the aftermath of a strike in Khan Younis on the 19 October By Merlyn Thomas, Shereen Sherif and Ahmed Nour BBC Verify and BBC Arabic Since the Israeli military issued the first of several instructions for civilians to evacuate north Gaza, hundreds of thousands…
28 minutes ago About sharing Aid workers greeted families who have been ordered to leave their homes near the front lines By Jenny Hill BBC News, central Ukraine It is still dark when an early train pulls into the station in central Ukraine and aid workers crowd expectantly around one of the carriages. The doors…
1 hour ago About sharing Bereaved families protest outside the Covid inquiry in London By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News “We cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the British state while dodging stilettos from that c***.” So wrote Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s most senior adviser in Downing Street, about the second most…
1 hour ago About sharing Tom Parfett bought poison from a seller whose details were widely shared on the forum – he was 22 when he died By Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News A leading UK broadband provider has blocked access for its 5.7 million users to a website promoting suicide. Sky Broadband…
23 minutes ago About sharing Tina, diagnosed with a sarcoma in June 2022, now has scans every three months By Fergus Walsh Medical editor Artificial intelligence is nearly twice as good at grading the aggressiveness of a rare form of cancer from scans as the current method, a study suggests. By recognising details invisible to…