March 2024

Officers say a 33-year-old woman has been arrested after the child was found dead by police.

30 minutes ago About sharing People gathered in Paris to watch abortion being constitutionalised By George Wright BBC News France has become the first country in the world to put the right to abortion in its constitution. Parliamentarians voted to revise the country’s 1958 constitution to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to abort. It becomes the…

1 hour ago About sharing Watch: Trump calls Supreme Court ruling a ‘unifying factor’ By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause. The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also…

Jack Teixeira was accused of one of the highest-profile national security breaches in years.

1 hour ago About sharing A banned neonicotinoid that threatens bees can now be used again By Malcolm Prior BBC News rural affairs producer Sugar beet farmers have the green light to use a banned pesticide deadly to bees following a forecast that a virus could sweep through their crops. Emergency authorisation to use neonicotinoids…

6 minutes ago About sharing George Galloway, who won the Rochdale by-election, takes his seat in the House of Commons. By Jennifer McKiernan BBC political reporter George Galloway has said he wants to oust Labour’s deputy leader from Parliament, as he began work as an MP. The Workers Party of Britain leader said his party…

Though the court’s ruling is unanimous, the justices do not all agree on the way in which Section 3 of the 14th Amendment works and can be enforced. Justice Amy Coney Barrett joins her colleagues in the final decision, writing: “I agree that States lack the power to enforce Section 3 against Presidential candidates. That…

High winds in Nevada and Utah sweep in huge amounts of tumbleweeds, surrounding houses.

The Ferrari F512M, worth about £350,000, was tracked down after it was shipped to Japan in 1995.

1 hour ago About sharing German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has warned that the leak was Russia’s attempt to sow division By Jessica Parker and Laura Gozzi BBC News in Berlin and London Germany is scrambling to explain how a conversation of air force officials discussing giving Ukraine long-range missiles was leaked by Russian sources….