29 minutes ago About sharing By Tom Espiner & Lucy Hooker BBC News The minimum wage set by the government, known as the national living wage, is increasing by more than a pound for the first time, providing a welcome boost for 2.7 million low-paid workers. The main wage rate is rising from £10.42 to…
15 minutes ago About sharing By Nomia Iqbal BBC News, Cap-Haitien, Haiti For the last month, Nun Neethoudjif Méléance has got used to a painful routine. She checks her phone daily to see if her family is still alive. The 22-year-old teacher lives in Cap-Haitien with her brother. But 10 members of her family including…
50 minutes ago About sharing Ekrem Imamoglu won Istanbul for the opposition in 2019 and has his eye on a second term By Paul Kirby BBC News Turkey’s main opposition party has taken the lead in some of the country’s biggest cities, including Istanbul, in high-stakes local elections. Istanbul’s opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who won…
Manchester City and Arsenal handed Liverpool the advantage in the Premier League title race as they played out a bitterly disappointing goalless stalemate at Etihad Stadium. Liverpool are now top of the table, two points clear of Arsenal and three ahead of City, after they came from behind to beat Brighton at Anfield, their delight…
The BBC’s Natural History Unit got a rare glimpse of the behaviour as climate change forces animals to adapt.
Arsenal midfielder Frida Maanum is in a “stable condition” after she collapsed on the pitch during the Continental Cup final against Chelsea. Play was stopped for seven minutes when the Norway international went down off the ball in second-half stoppage time. Maanum, 24, received medical treatment before being taken off on a stretcher. “Frida Maanum…
12 minutes ago About sharing Traffic lights on a street in Kharkiv are working again after Russian missiles targeted the city’s power supply By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent in Kharkiv In central Kharkiv you hear the rattle of generators on every street. Ten days ago, Ukraine’s second city was plunged into darkness by a…
10 minutes ago About sharing Journalists are among hundreds sheltering in makeshift tents in the grounds of the hospital Seven journalists have been injured in an Israeli air strike in the courtyard of a hospital in central Gaza. Four members of the Islamic Jihad (IJ) militant group were killed in the attack in the grounds…
24 minutes ago About sharing NI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris issued a statement on Sunday By Jayne McCormack BBC News NI political correspondent The UK government has said it will work alongside Stormont’s power-sharing executive to maintain stability. It comes amid upheaval in the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) following the resignation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson as…
1 hour ago About sharing Pope Francis waved to crowds at the Vatican on the day of the Easter Mass, at St. Peter’s Square By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Pope Francis has used his traditional Easter message to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and for the return of Israeli hostages held by…