3 hours ago About sharing By Smitha Mundasad Health reporter More than a billion people are living with obesity around the world, global estimates published in The Lancet show. This includes about 880 million adults and 159 million children, according to 2022 data. The highest rates are in Tonga and American Samoa for women and…
1 hour ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News George Galloway is an outsized character with an outsized facility for articulating outrage. And a knack too for locating – by geography and circumstance – the opportunity for it to find expression in the House of Commons once again. Mr Galloway has now…
10:59 As we just reported, the hearse carrying Navalny’s coffin has arrived at the church where his funeral ceremony will be held shortly, according to his team. We’re yet to see any live images of the arrival, but some photos are now being shared of a coffin being unloaded off a hearse. Navalny’s team has…
1 hour ago About sharing Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia said it had received dead and wounded from western Gaza City By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News The head of the UN has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians during an aid delivery in Gaza. At least 117…
The BBC’s Carrie Davies in Tehran says there are major concerns about “voter apathy”.
Analysis22:00 Chris Mason Political editor, reporting from Rochdale I’ve never covered a by-election like it. Bizarre, noisy, angry, colourful. 11 candidates, all men. Oh, and wildly unpredictable. Candidates disowned. And the local and the international jostling alongside each other for attention. The big characters: the two former Labour MPs, George Galloway and Simon Danczuk. The…
31 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Biden and Trump at the border: How the visits played out By Angelica Casas, Sarah Smith & Tom Bateman in Texas & Mike Wendling in Chicago, Illinois BBC News President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have made competing visits to the US border in Texas, each seeking to stress…
George Galloway in back in Parliament after a resounding victory in the Rochdale by-election.
17 minutes ago About sharing Olly Alexander was formerly the frontman of chart-topping pop band Years & Years By Mark Savage Music correspondent, BBC News For decades, Eurovision fans have wondered why the UK underplays its hand so badly. We produce world-beating pop stars like Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa – but our Eurovision entrants…
22:39 Nada Tawfik Reporting from New York President Biden isn’t just fielding criticism from his Republican rivals for office. Democratic leaders have been piling on the pressure too, pleading for more federal assistance in addressing the migrant situation in their communities. New York mayor Eric Adams accused President Biden of abandoning cities with a national…