5 minutes ago About sharing Several floors of an eight-storey building were badly damaged in the Russian missile strike A Russian missile attack has killed 10 people in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s president. Volodymyr Zelensky said another 20 people were wounded in the attack, which hit an eight-storey building…
2 hours ago About sharing By Sanchia Berg BBC News Paedophiles convicted of serious sexual offences could lose parental rights over their children under a new law. The proposed law change comes after the BBC reported the case of a mother who spent £30,000 in legal fees to stop her paedophile ex-husband getting access to…
The UK foreign secretary is expected to urge the Israeli government to avoid further escalation.
New official figures show that inflation, the rate at which prices rise over time, fell again in March.
17 minutes ago About sharing By Olga Ivshina, Becky Dale & Kirstie Brewer BBC Russian Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark – the BBC can confirm. In the second 12 months on the front line – as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy – we found the body…
The firm had to ground its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet after a mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight.
1 hour ago About sharing By Philippa Roxby Health reporter Smacking children should be made illegal in England and Northern Ireland, say children’s doctors, calling current laws “unjust and dangerously vague”. Their report warns children suffer lasting mental and physical effects from being hit in the home. Striking a child is already illegal in Scotland…
57 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Could you be on the Trump jury? We asked New Yorkers By Kayla Epstein, Madeline Halpert & Nada Tawfik BBC News, reporting from court A 40-year-old New Yorker did not expect to report to jury duty this week and come face to face with Donald Trump. Yet he found…
43 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News Unless the opinion polls shift and shift quite a bit, Rishi Sunak knows his time left as prime minister might be running out. But he is the instigator of a smoking plan with substantial, cross-party political support, which looks set to herald a…
14 minutes ago About sharing Israel’s military displays what it says is an Iranian ballistic missile retrieved from the Dead Sea By Francesca Gillett BBC News The United States and the European Union say they are looking at imposing further sanctions on Iran, after its attack on Israel at the weekend. US Treasury Secretary Janet…