April 2024

The Moon’s shadow makes landfall just south of Mexico’s Mazatlán on the Pacific coast.

1 hour ago About sharing Russia had received warnings that an attack – like the one on the Moscow concert hall – was imminent By Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor It began with hints. Intimation. Now, it’s no holds barred accusations. The Russian authorities are aggressively pushing the line that Ukraine and the West were behind…

33 minutes ago About sharing Cody Fisher was stabbed with a zombie knife on the dance floor of Crane in December 2022 By Eleanor Lawson BBC News, West Midlands Two men have been jailed for life for the murder of a footballer who was stabbed on a nightclub dance floor. Cody Fisher, 23, was attacked…

Kulsama Akter, from Oldham, was stabbed to death while pushing her baby in a pram, police say.

1 hour ago About sharing By Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent In political journalism you deal with lots of different kinds of stories – stories about policies, stories about ministerial rivalries, stories about geopolitics, stories about local politics. Then some stories are just plain weird, like the one that broke last week about the honeytrap…

1 hour ago About sharing The Post Office minister has admitted sub-postmasters and postmistresses wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting are not being compensated quickly enough. Kevin Hollinrake told a BBC Breakfast audience of sub-postmasters that the process of financial redress needed to be simplified. More than 700 people were prosecuted by the Post…

Following the sentencing, senior investigating officer Det Insp Michelle Thurgood, from West Midlands Police, said: “The absolute tragedy of Cody’s death is just how avoidable it was.” She said it was “almost incomprehensible” that Cody Fisher should be killed because he had accidentally bumped into Remy Gordon. She also urged people to support the force…

Palestinians started returning to the city after Israel said it was reducing the amount of soldiers in southern Gaza.

Everton have been deducted two points for a second breach of Premier League financial rules. Profit and sustainability rules (PSR) permit clubs to lose £105m over three years and an independent commission found Everton breached that by £16.6m for the three-year period to 2022-23. They drop one place to 16th and are now two points…

With cloud in the forecast for at least some parts of the US, eclipse-hunters might be bracing themselves for disappointment. But a cloudy eclipse can still be spectacular. Growing up in south west England, I witnessed the total eclipse of 1999 – and at our vantage point on the western edge of Dartmoor, thick clouds…