2024

12 minutes ago About sharing Boris Nadezhdin has vowed to challenge the election commission’s rejection in Russia’s Supreme Court By Paul Kirby BBC News Russia’s election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in next month’s presidential vote. Mr Nadezhdin has been relatively critical of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine when…

3 hours ago About sharing Barbed wire fencing and cameras run along the border at the Israeli town of Metula By Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor It is a lonely drive to Israel’s most northern town, Metula, along a spur of land that is surrounded on three sides by Lebanon. That means it is…

43 minutes ago About sharing Christian Brückner is serving a seven-year jail term for rape committed in Portugal in 2005 By Jessica Parker BBC Berlin correspondent The prime suspect in the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007 is expected to stay largely silent at his forthcoming trial in Germany for unrelated sexual…

30 minutes ago About sharing By Mark Poynting BBC News climate reporter For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the…

1 hour ago About sharing Election posters for the MQM-P (kite) and Jamaat-e-Islami (scales) parties are seen here in Karachi By Flora Drury BBC Tens of millions of Pakistanis head to the polls on Thursday to vote in a new government amid soaring inflation, rising violence and claims of rigging. The election comes almost two…

13 minutes ago About sharing Men who take drugs for erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra, may reduce their risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests. In research on more than 260,000 men, those taking the drugs were 18% less likely to develop the dementia-causing condition. But more research is needed to prove that the drugs…

1 hour ago About sharing Central Cee was unable to attend the awards ceremony in Sheffield on Wednesday By Riyah Collins BBC Newsbeat Central Cee took home Best Male Act as well as Song of the Year for Sprinter with Dave at 2024’s MOBO Awards. Little Simz and Stormzy, who had four award nominations each,…

14 minutes ago About sharing By Orla Guerin & Hugo Bachega BBC News, Baghdad A senior commander of an Iran-backed militia has been killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad. The leader of Kataib Hezbollah and two of his guards were in a vehicle when it was targeted in the east of the Iraqi…