March 2024

Seven Chinese nationals have been charged over a “sinister” hacking plot, the justice department says.

The Blackpool South MP was facing a local vote to remove him, after a Commons suspension for lobbying.

You join us as the UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza – something the body has repeatedly tried and failed to do since the war began in October. It became possible after the US refrained from vetoing the measure in a change from its previous position –…

It was passed after the US refrained from vetoing the measure in a shift from its previous position.

29 minutes ago About sharing By Jacqueline Howard BBC News Shamima Begum has lost an initial bid to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court. The 24-year-old had requested permission from the Court of Appeal to take her case to the UK’s highest court. The government stripped her citizenship on national…

14:06 Kayla Epstein Reporting from court in New York These trials now have a well-established choreography. Trump strides through the doors, proceeded by his Secret Service detail. After he takes a seat at the table, a small pool of press photographers are ushered into the room. The only sound is the rapid clicks of their…

5 minutes ago About sharing Barnaby Webber’s mother, Emma: “Murderers can get away with murder” By Alex Smith & Greig Watson BBC News, Nottingham Prosecutors were right to accept manslaughter pleas from the Nottingham attacks killer but could have handled the case better, a review has found. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and…

As we’ve been reporting, the MPs thought to be victims of cyber-attacks are members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China which scrutinises, and often criticises, the activities of Beijing. Its executive director, Luke De Pulford, says he wants to see “targeted sanctions on those responsible”. “But we also need support for members of Parliament and…

Dave Calhoun, the boss of the troubled planemaker, is standing down, the company has announced.

After his arrest in June last year, Valdo Calocane was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. But while on remand he was transferred to a high security hospital to be assessed by forensic psychiatrists, who found he couldn’t be tried for murder because of mental illness. At a Nottingham…