2 minutes ago About sharing By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News More than a fifth of adults in the UK were deemed not to be actively looking for work between November and January, official figures suggest. The UK’s economic inactivity rate was 21.8% in the three-month period, higher than a year earlier, the Office…
7 minutes ago About sharing By Alice Cuddy BBC News Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month. Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being held for a week in…
1 hour ago About sharing Ms Oakes says she will “never feel complete again” following the death of her son By Zoie O’Brien and Laurence Cawley BBC News, East of England Two teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering 18-year-old Raymond James Quigley in Ipswich amid rising tension between two gangs. What does the…
1 hour ago About sharing Princess Diana visited the HIV/Aids ward in the former Middlesex Hospital in 1987 By Josh Parry LGBT & Identity Producer A shortlist of artists competing to create London’s first permanent Aids memorial has been announced. The monument will be situated near the former site of Middlesex Hospital, the UK’s first…
2 minutes ago About sharing Ariel Henry Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, the chair of the Caribbean group of countries has said, following weeks of mounting pressure and increasing violence in the country. It comes after regional leaders met in Jamaica on Monday to discuss a political transition in Haiti. Mr Henry is…
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24 minutes ago About sharing A coalition of gangs in Haiti have united in an attack against the state By Will Grant, Central America correspondent & James Gregory BBC News The US says it will contribute a further $100m (£78m) to an international security force in Haiti as violence grips the country. US Secretary of…
19 minutes ago About sharing By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Bananas are set to get more expensive as climate change hits a much-loved fruit, one of the world’s top experts from the industry tells BBC News. Pascal Liu, senior economist at the World Banana Forum, says climate impacts pose an “enormous threat” to supply, compounding…
33 minutes ago About sharing By Alys Harte & Ella Rule BBC File on 4 Claims about one of the UK’s biggest providers of workplace mental health services are to be investigated by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), it has said. BBC File on 4 has heard allegations that calls from vulnerable…
5 hours ago About sharing By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent The release of the first official image of the Princess of Wales since her surgery was meant to mark Mother’s Day, and calm the fevered speculation over her health. Instead, the image of her with her three children caused chaos when news agencies withdrew the…