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Michael Matheson, who resigned as Scotland’s health secretary last month, racked up almost £11,000 on a parliamentary iPad.

1 hour ago About sharing By Paul Seddon Politics reporter, BBC News Michael Gove has named five groups he said would be assessed against a new government definition of extremism. The communities secretary told MPs he had concerns about the “Islamist orientation” of three of the organisations. He also named two groups he said promoted…

31 minutes ago About sharing By Alice Cuddy, Sean Seddon, Marie-Jose Al Azzi & Richard Irvine-Brown BBC News Before the sun rose on Saturday, 10 February, the cracks of gunfire were already echoing. Dr Amira al-Assouli was in Nasser hospital’s maternity building when she heard a man screaming the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith,…

13 minutes ago About sharing Haitians crossing back into their home country face an uncertain future – with a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the capital By Will Grant BBC News, on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border At the Dajabón border crossing between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a constant stream of trucks pulls up carrying undocumented…

Shipwreck survivors tell rescuers they had set sail from Libya a week earlier.

12 minutes ago About sharing Tom Hayes was sentenced to 11 years in jail in 2015. He served five and a half years By Andy Verity BBC News Two former bankers jailed for rigging interest rates are appealing against their convictions after an eight-year battle to clear their names. Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo were…

Assuming everything goes as planned, Starship will rise up and head down range across the Gulf of Mexico in the direction of the Atlantic and Africa. Stage separation – when the booster has done its job and comes apart from the Ship – is timed to occur at about two minutes and 44 seconds into…

4 minutes ago About sharing By Nick Triggle, Libby Rogers and Rob England BBC News There is wide variation across England in how long patients wait for hospital treatment, BBC News analysis reveals. Patients should start treatment within 18 weeks but at the worst-performing hospital trust, Milton Keynes, nearly two-thirds are waiting longer. And that…

4 hours ago Comments About sharing One in three children in UK are obese or overweight according to NHS data By Matthew Hill Health correspondent, West of England Changing how children are measured for obesity to a new system could be more accurate, a study has concluded. It revealed the traditional method of using Body…

1 hour ago About sharing Police rescued hundreds of victims from the centre in Bamban, about 100km north of capital Manila By Virma Simonette & Kelly Ng in Manila and Singapore Hundreds of people have been rescued from a scam centre in the Philippines that made them pose as lovers online. Police said they raided…