33 minutes ago About sharing More than half a million students took the gruelling Suneung exam this year By Fan Wang BBC News A group of South Korean students are suing the government because their college admission examination ended 90 seconds earlier than scheduled. They are asking for 20 million won ($15,400; £12,000) each –…
1 hour ago About sharing File photo of women protesting against so-called honour killings in Pakistan By Kelly Ng BBC News Italy has sentenced a Pakistani couple to life in prison for killing their 18-year-old daughter because she refused an arranged marriage. Saman Abbas’s body was found beneath a farmhouse in northern Italy in November…
57 minutes ago About sharing Rescue workers search a house for survivors in in Kangdiao village, Dahejia, Jishishan By Frances Mao in Singapore Rescue efforts for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 131 in China’s north-west are nearly over. Authorities on Tuesday said they were wrapping up rescue operations and would now focus…
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, was known to associate with powerful figures.
The father left the children – ages 2, 4, 5, 11 and 13 – while he shopped for gifts, police say.
40 minutes ago About sharing By Mike Wendling BBC News A 13-year-old who admitted to planning an attack on a synagogue was sentenced to probation – and a book report. The boy was arrested in September after he created a plan to carry out a shooting at Temple Israel in Canton, Ohio. He was told…
24 minutes ago About sharing Michaela Ali has been living in temporary accommodation since March because there are rats in her housing association flat By Fiona Trott & Ruth Green BBC News Landlords are failing to resolve increasing numbers of complaints about rats in rental properties – and some are even blaming tenants’ lifestyles, a…
21 minutes ago About sharing Clockwise from top left: Madeleine, Siân, Joe and Sapphire By Mark Daly BBC News Dozens more ballet dancers have described body-shaming and bullying at schools across the UK, following a BBC investigation earlier this year. One ex-Elmhurst Ballet School student says she was shut in a room by staff while…
19 minutes ago About sharing By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Patients are being warned to expect major disruption in England as junior doctors begin their 26th day of strike action in their pay dispute. The stoppage, from 07:00, will last three days, with senior doctors drafted in to provide emergency cover. NHS strike action has…
It is the first time the US Constitution’s insurrection clause has been invoked to remove a presidential candidate.