1 hour ago About sharing Oliver Bearman is stepping up from his reserve role to replace Carlos Sainz at Ferrari for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix By Andrew Benson Chief F1 writer Oliver Bearman’s Formula 1 debut is coming in unexpected circumstances, after Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz’s appendicitis diagnosis. But it has merely accelerated what…
43 minutes ago About sharing Constance Marten is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the manslaughter by gross negligence of baby Victoria By Daniel Sandford BBC News Constance Marten has told a jury that she carried her dead baby’s body around in a bag while on the run from police. Her trial heard…
4 minutes ago About sharing Fred Scappaticci left Northern Ireland in 2003 when he was identified by the media as Stakeknife By Luke Sproule & Julian O’Neill BBC News NI An Army spy operating at the heart of the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland probably cost more lives than he saved, a report…
Chris Kaba died after being shot in a police operation in south London in September 2022.
4 hours ago About sharing Dragon Ball is a part of many Japanese anime fans’ childhood By Fan Wang BBC News The creator of Dragon Ball, one of the most influential and best-selling Japanese comics of all time, has died at 68. Akira Toriyama suffered an acute subdural hematoma, a type of bleeding near the…
Former prime minister announces she will stand down as the MP for Maidenhead
The government’s counter-extremism commissioner urges ministers to “be bolder” in tackling the issue.
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…