6 minutes ago About sharing Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly accept top jobs at Stormont By Brendan Hughes & Matt Fox BBC News NI Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has made history after she was appointed Northern Ireland’s first nationalist first minister. The DUP’s Emma Little-Pengelly has been appointed deputy first minister. The return of power-sharing…
43 minutes ago About sharing By Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg To govern is to choose. But in the last couple of weeks, you would be forgiven for wondering if our politicians can make decisions at all. In January, the Conservatives were dangling the possibility of more tax cuts in the Budget in…
47 minutes ago About sharing By Paul Adams BBC News As expected, Friday night’s US strikes were carefully calibrated, going further than the US has gone in Iraq and Syria in recent months – but stopping short of directly attacking Iran, the power Washington says is behind much of the Middle East’s recent instability. Is…
6 hours ago About sharing Camp Stalag Luft III was run by the Luftwaffe for captured airmen until its liberation on 29 April 1945 By Bethan Bell BBC News During World War Two, hundreds of thousands of people were held against their will. Service personnel captured in conflict became prisoners of war, and civilians were…
5 hours ago About sharing Cardiff contestant says midlife crisis led him to take part in Gladiators By Jack Grey BBC News A Gladiators contestant has joked his appearance on the show is down to his “midlife crisis”. Civil engineer Matt Jones, 41, from Cardiff, is competing in the BBC One revamp of the classic…
3 hours ago About sharing Toyin Odumala, 22, says she wants an end to babies being left on the street By Victoria Cook BBC News A woman who was abandoned as a baby is campaigning to introduce baby boxes in the UK. Toyin Odumala’s online petition says the idea – in place across the US,…
43 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Police in hazmat suits at east London property By Jake Lapham BBC News A manhunt for the suspect in a corrosive-substance attack on a mother and her daughters in Clapham is continuing, after he was last seen on the London Underground at King’s Cross. Police are trying to piece…
1 hour ago About sharing By Fergal Keane Former Northern Ireland correspondent Whenever the politicians or anybody else start talking about history being made in Northern Ireland, Gail McConnell feels wary. Too much has been suffered and too much time wasted for her to put much faith in rhetoric. She wants hard work and action,…
8 hours ago About sharing Pathologist Richard Scolyer and oncologist Georgina Long are cancer research pioneers By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney On opposite sides of the world, Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long each took one look at a scan and their hearts sank. In front of them was, to the untrained eye, an innocuous-looking…
1 hour ago About sharing Experts believe the US may be delaying strikes to avoid a wider regional conflict with Iran. By Bernd Debusmann Jr & Kayla Epstein BBC News, Washington and New York Nearly a week after a drone strike in Jordan killed three US soldiers, retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militias have begun. The…