2 hours ago About sharing North Korea’s second attempt to put a spy satellite into space has failed By Jean Mackenzie & Kelly Ng in Seoul and Singapore North Korea’s second attempt to put a spy satellite into space has failed, three months after its first launch crashed into the sea. The attempt on Thursday…
2 hours ago About sharing Republicans who qualified for the debate. Top row from left: Asa Hutchinson, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy. Bottom row from left: Mike Pence, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley By Anthony Zurcher in Wisconsin North America correspondent The first Republican presidential debate was a rowdy affair that saw the…
22 minutes ago About sharing By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Senior hospital doctors are taking part in their second strike of the year in England in a dispute over pay. The two-day walkout begins at 07:00 BST with NHS bosses warning patients to expect significant disruption. But as the strike begins, an analysis by the…
30 minutes ago About sharing Yevgeny Prigozhin posing in a video apparently recorded in Africa this month By Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor When Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner troops launched their insurrection two months ago, Vladimir Putin made his feelings more than clear. He called it “treachery” and a “stab in the back” of Russia….
6 hours ago About sharing The man’s body was found on the Schlatenkees glacier, one of the fastest-melting glaciers in Austria By Bethany Bell BBC News, Vienna The body of a man who is believed to have died more than 20 years ago has been found on a rapidly melting glacier in the Austrian province…
Britain’s Josh Kerr stunned Norway’s Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to take 1500m gold at the World Championships in Budapest. Kerr, Olympic bronze medallist in Tokyo, timed his surge for gold to perfection inside the final 200m. The 25-year-old clocked a season’s best three minutes 29.38 seconds to make his first podium at a World Championships….
1 hour ago About sharing By Damian Grammaticas and Kate Whannel BBC News Prime Minister Rishi Sunak failed to correctly declare his wife’s financial interest in a childminding agency, the MPs watchdog has ruled. Daniel Greenberg, parliamentary commissioner for standards, said this arose out of “confusion” about the rules and was “inadvertent”. In a letter…
1 hour ago About sharing By Hazel Shearing Education correspondent GCSE results in England are set to drop for a second year running, bringing grades back in line with 2019 levels. It follows a spike in higher grades in 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled because of Covid and results were based on teachers’…
58 minutes ago About sharing Pat Bennett, who has a type of MND, trains the brain interface to recognise the words and phrases she is trying to say By Philippa Roxby Health reporter Scientists have developed a device that can translate paralysed people’s brain signals into words at faster speeds than before, it has been…
3 hours ago About sharing Watch a live simulation of the moment India’s Chandrayaan-3 lands on the Moon By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi India has made history as its Moon mission becomes the first to land in the lunar south pole region. With this, India joins an elite club of countries to achieve a…