2024

Former prime minister announces she will stand down as the MP for Maidenhead

23 minutes ago About sharing By Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent President Joe Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address on Thursday, taking repeated swipes at Donald Trump and covering the broad themes of his re-election campaign. Mr Biden used the term “my predecessor” to refer to Mr Trump 13 times in a…

A change for England as Mark Wood replaces James Anderson. There was little to no movement for the latter so can the pace of the former provide the breakthrough? Not with all balls like that. Short and wide from Wood and Shubman Gill cuts away to the fence. He follows it with a gorgeous front-foot…

2 hours ago About sharing Ishrat Baig wanted to have an orphanage built and named after her parents By Yasmin Khatun Dewan BBC News A woman who gave £40,000 to a charity to build an orphanage, says she feels “cheated” because, seven years later, the job has yet to be finished. Ishrat Baig says she…

1 hour ago About sharing Belfast man Fred Scappaticci denied he was Stakeknife, an Army agent within the IRA By Julian O’Neill BBC News NI crime and justice correspondent A report on a major investigation into an Army spy who operated at the heart of the IRA during the Northern Ireland troubles is to be…

43 minutes ago About sharing Ten-year-old William Gray died in May 2021 after his second severe asthma attack in seven months. By Jim Reed, Harriet Agerholm & Alison Benjamin BBC News Coroners in England and Wales sent 109 warning letters to the government and health bodies in 2023 highlighting long NHS waits, staff shortages or…

1 hour ago About sharing Mr Li weeps after writing a message to his son By Jonathan Head BBC News, Kuala Lampur For the last decade, two words have haunted Li Eryou – lost contact. It’s what Malaysia Airlines told him when flight MH370 disappeared, with his son Yanlin on board. “For years I have…

7 hours ago About sharing By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor There is a worrying rise in whooping cough, officials warn, with 553 cases in England recorded in January alone and high numbers in Wales. They fear it could be a bumper year for the bacterial infection. The last peak year, 2016, saw 5,949 cases…

Of all the State of the Union addresses a president could deliver, it’s the one that comes in an election year that counts as the ultimate high wire act. On paper it’s a chance for Biden to set out his legislative agenda. But in practice, it’s his first big campaign speech. Amid concerns over his…

2 hours ago About sharing Sweden applied to join the military alliance after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine By Laura Gozzi BBC News Sweden has officially become the 32nd member of Nato after it completed its accession process in Washington. The handover of documents took place at a ceremony two years after Sweden applied to…