2024

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…

Troops swap places in Paris and London to mark 120 years since the Entente Cordiale was signed.

Russ Cook says it is “hard to contemplate the whole thing” after completing the mammoth challenge.

24 minutes ago About sharing By Matt Murphy BBC News Nicaragua has asked the UN’s highest court to halt German weapons sales to Israel at the start of a landmark case. Germany is accused of breaching the UN genocide convention by sending military hardware to Israel and ceasing funding of the UN’s aid agency. Berlin…