Great Britain won 10 medals in Budapest to equal their best-ever haul at a World Athletics Championships. Keely Hodgkinson and the 4x400m relay teams won medals on the final day to help Britain finish seventh in the final medal table. Britain recorded a haul of two golds, three silver and five bronze medals after nine…
1 hour ago About sharing By Antoinette Radford BBC News A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of Black people, police have said. Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a…
The windscreen of Aston Villa’s team bus was hit by a brick as the side were travelling back to the Midlands following their victory at Burnley. The incident took place at junction 10 of the M65 after Sunday’s Premier League match, which Villa won 3-1. In a statement Burnley said the club are “relieved to…
Passersby fought to help them when they saw they were in trouble, but they were later pronounced dead.
34 minutes ago About sharing Cruise ship and freight ship collide amid storm in Mallorca A cruise ship broke free from moorings and collided with a freight vessel during a storm in Mallorca, Spain. Passengers on Britannia, a P&O Cruises ship based in Southampton, described “being pushed ashore by tugs whilst confined to our cabins”…
4 hours ago About sharing Band-e-Amir, seen here in May this year, was Afghanistan’s first national park By Antoinette Radford BBC News The Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province. Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue and vice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women had not been observing hijab inside…
An internal investigation has been launched by Spain’s football federation after its sexual violence protocol was activated. Federation president Luis Rubiales has been suspended by Fifa after kissing forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s Women’s World Cup win. Hermoso, 33, has said the kiss after last Sunday’s game was not consensual. Maria Dolores…
11 hours ago About sharing “I had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the 1990s,” Vladimir Putin recalled this week By Andrei Goryanov BBC Russian Theirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia’s state security services mingled with the criminal underworld. While Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner military company grew into…
Five more have been taken to hospital in a serious condition, US officials say.
Tokyo seeks to reassure neighbours about the release of treated water from the damaged nuclear plant.