2024

Richard Burrows was held at Heathrow Airport after returning to the UK from Thailand, police say.

21 minutes ago About sharing In a video purporting to show the strike, a light aircraft – thought to have been modified to fly unmanned – is shown descending onto a building in Yelabuga By Laura Gozzi BBC News Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a drone attack in Russia’s Tatarstan region – more than 1,300km…

Police say a shooting north of Helsinki has injured three children and a suspect has been arrested.

At least seven aid workers have been killed in Gaza, in what their charity founder said was an Israeli air strike. Chef and World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder José Andrés called on the Israeli government “to stop this indiscriminate killing”. Gaza’s Hamas-run media office also blamed Israel. A journalist working for the BBC in Gaza…

53 minutes ago About sharing By Kate West BBC File on 4 “Jodie” found images of herself used in deepfake porn – and then faced another terrible shock. She told BBC File on 4 about the moment she realised the person responsible was one of her best friends. WARNING: Contains offensive language and descriptions of…

7 minutes ago About sharing The bodies were taken to a hospital in Gaza By Emily Atkinson BBC News Four aid workers said to include a Briton, a Pole and an Australian, and their Palestinian driver, have died in what the Hamas-run health ministry says was an Israeli air strike in Gaza. A Palestinian medical…

56 minutes ago About sharing Donald Trump attends his New York business fraud trial. By Kayla Epstein BBC News Former US President Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in his New York civil fraud case, staving off asset seizures by the state. Mr Trump was originally ordered to pay the full $464m judgement…

3 hours ago About sharing Cleaning up the ‘cavern of lost souls’ By Paul Pigott BBC News Instagram photo seekers are “killing” special places, says a caver, after volunteers hauled piles of rubbish out of a 19th Century mine filled with dumped cars. Anthony Taylor said a YouTube video of old cars dumped in the…

1 hour ago About sharing The technology automates the release of insulin into the bloodstream By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Tens of thousands of people with type 1 diabetes in England are to be offered a new technology, dubbed an artificial pancreas, to help manage the condition. The system uses a glucose sensor under the…

Live-streamed footage captured the moment a detainee stole a gun from a guard and opened fire in Chile.