38 minutes ago About sharing Russia has been striking Kharkiv in recent days By George Wright BBC News Ukraine is again under attack by Russian drones, officials say, after two days of major aerial assaults by both sides. There are reports of explosions in Kyiv and Kharkiv, where the mayor said residential buildings were on…
15 minutes ago About sharing American bully XL dogs in England and Wales must be kept on a lead and muzzled in public now that a new law has come into effect. Breeding, selling or abandoning them is also illegal as of New Year’s Eve. Owners who want to keep their bully XL after an…
The new rules will come into effect in June and are part of an effort to ease the impact of tourism.
11 minutes ago About sharing Luke Littler will now face Brendan Dolan on New Year’s Day in the World Championship quarter-finals Luke Littler continued his historic run at the PDC World Darts Championship with a sensational 4-1 victory over five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld to reach the quarter-finals. The 16-year-old powered past the Dutchman…
12 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason, political editor BBC News In the blizzard of guesswork about politics in the coming year, there’s a fact as solid as a lump of coal at the bottom of your Christmas stocking. The election campaign has to begin in 2024, and it looks likely it will end,…
The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg looks at life in a town near Moscow, and asks residents about the war.
Many passengers are still stranded in London and Paris after flooding cancelled all Eurostar trains.
45 minutes ago About sharing Many displaced Gazans are living “in the open, in the parks,” Juliette Touma of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has told the BBC. According to the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA), at least 100,000 people have fled to Rafah – which borders Egypt in Gaza’s south – in…
12 minutes ago About sharing British actor Tom Wilkinson, known for films like The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has died suddenly aged 75. Wilkinson won a Bafta for 1997’s The Full Monty, and reprised the role of Gerald when a Disney+ streaming series revisited the characters 26 years…
13 minutes ago About sharing Ms Abdul (bottom right) claims that Mr Lythgoe (top left) first assaulted her during an early season of American Idol By Jacqueline Howard BBC News American singer and dancer Paula Abdul is suing television executive heavyweight Nigel Lythgoe over alleged sexual assault, according to US media. Ms Abdul’s lawsuit claims…