39 minutes ago About sharing Saliah Mehmet and Basil Peterkin By Dominic Casciani Home and legal correspondent Two men jailed on the testimony of a corrupt police officer have had their convictions posthumously quashed after almost 50 years of campaigning. The Court of Appeal formally exonerated Saliah Mehmet and Basil Peterkin. The men were jailed…
18 minutes ago About sharing Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy in the title role By Yasmin Rufo BBC News Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads this year’s Bafta Film Award nominations with a total of 13. They include one for Cillian Murphy for playing J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist described as the father of the atomic bomb….
The firm is part of an inquiry into how hundreds of Post Office managers were wrongly prosecuted.
23 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Teens sentenced to hard labour for watching South Korean TV shows By Sangmi Han BBC Korean, Seoul Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas. The footage, which appears to have been filmed in…
Emma Raducanu sees her first Grand Slam appearance since wrist and ankle surgeries ended by Wang Yafan in the Australian Open second round.
24 minutes ago About sharing By Oliver Slow BBC News Arnold Schwarzenegger was detained at a German airport for allegedly failing to declare a luxury watch he was planning to auction for charity. The Hollywood actor was held for three hours at Munich airport on Wednesday. An investigation for alleged tax evasion was launched as…
Indiyah Polack and Babatunde Aléshé will be the hosts of this year’s event, being held in Sheffield.
8 hours ago About sharing By Shiona McCallum Technology reporter GCHQ has released never before seen images of Colossus, the UK’s secret code breaking computer credited with helping the Allies win World War Two. The intelligence agency is publishing them to mark the 80th anniversary of the device’s invention. It says they “shed new light”…
Parents protested outside St Leonard’s school last term Hazel Shearing Education correspondent @hazelshearing25 minutes ago Students at schools in England that have had to close because of dangerous concrete should get a boost of up to 10% in their exams, says a report on the impact of Raac. Professors at Durham University said exam boards…
3 hours ago About sharing By Matt Murphy BBC News, Washington The US has carried out a fourth round of strikes on Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, Pentagon officials confirmed on Wednesday night. Some 14 Houthi missiles, which the US says may have been intended for attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, were targeted by…