23 minutes ago About sharing People pulled bodies onto a lorry in the aftermath of the incident By Paul Brown BBC Verify At least 112 Palestinians were killed as crowds rushed around lorries delivering desperately needed food aid in the small hours of Thursday morning. Hundreds of people descended on the line of vehicles as…
“It is not enough to live side by side, we must live together united by shared values, and a shared commitment to this country,” the PM says. He is now turning his attention to directly address people who have been protesting in recent weeks, asking them to not allow the extremists to “hijack” their demonstrations….
2 hours ago About sharing Watch: The BBC’s Carrie Davies visits a Tehran polling station as voting begins By Caroline Davies Reporting from Tehran People in Iran are voting in elections for a new parliament today – the first test of opinion there since a series of protests against the hardline Islamic regime. But turnout…
Risking arrest, large numbers paid tribute to the Putin critic, who died in an Arctic prison.
22 minutes ago About sharing A steady stream of people laid flowers on Navalny’s grave at Borisovskoye cemetery By Laura Gozzi BBC News Thousands of Russians have defied fear to turn out to bid farewell to opposition leader Alexei Navalny. President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic died in jail on 16 February. Authorities had warned…
33 minutes ago About sharing Thomas Kingston pictured here with his wife, Lady Gabriella By Malu Cursino BBC News Thomas Kingston, Lady Gabriella Kingston’s husband, died from a “traumatic head wound”, an inquest has heard. A gun was found near to his body in an outbuilding at his parent’s home in the Cotswolds. Aged 45,…
13 minutes ago About sharing The Labour leader says he will only put up “first class candidates” at the next general election Sir Keir Starmer has apologised to voters in Rochdale for disowning Labour’s by-election candidate but insisted it was “the right decision”. George Galloway stormed to victory in the contest, with Labour’s suspended candidate…
36 minutes ago About sharing Marcus Osborne pleaded guilty to two murders and the false imprisonment and rape of another woman in the house By Steve Jones BBC News A man who killed his ex-partner and her new love interest out of “sexual jealousy” will spend the rest of his life in jail. Marcus Osborne,…
Giving a statement outside Leeds Crown Court, the family of Katie Higton have described her killer as a “monster”. After Marcus Osborne was handed a rare whole-life term for the murder of Katie and her partner Steven Harnett, they say Osborne was: “a man, if he can be called that, whose name does not deserve…
1 hour ago About sharing Watch: BBC doorsteps Leonid Zakutenko By Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News A Ukrainian man selling a poison thought to be linked to at least 130 UK deaths has been identified by the BBC. Leonid Zakutenko advertised his services on a website promoting suicide and he told an undercover…