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…
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”…
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…
Tokyo seeks to reassure neighbours about the release of treated water from the damaged nuclear plant.
Five more have been taken to hospital in a serious condition, US officials say.
A private equity firm makes a £90m bid for the business and pledges to retain all jobs for two years.
7 minutes ago About sharing Nadine Dorries has not spoken in the House of Commons for more than a year By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Labour and the Liberal Democrats are vying to snap up Nadine Dorries’ seat in a by-election this autumn, triggered after she quit on Saturday. The two parties ruled out any…
Merchandise bearing the ex-president’s scowling face at his arrest on Thursday is flying off the shelves.
Genetic analysis of the bodies was carried out following Wednesday’s crash, Russian officials say.