1 hour ago About sharing Simeon Boikov, known as Aussie Cossack online, fled to the Russian consulate in Sydney last year By Marianna Spring Disinformation and social media correspondent “I never falsely suggested anything,” Simeon Boikov tells me. Under the alter ego “Aussie Cossack”, he posted untrue speculation that a 20-year-old Jewish university student was…
56 minutes ago About sharing By Jennifer McKiernan & Helen Catt BBC Politics MPs will debate plans for some of the world’s toughest anti-tobacco laws on Tuesday. Rishi Sunak wants to make Generation Alpha, born since 2009, the UK’s first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention. Anyone turning 15 from this year would…
20 minutes ago About sharing Donald Trump is the first former president to ever go on trial By Madeline Halpert & Kayla Epstein BBC News, New York Donald Trump’s unprecedented criminal trial began on Monday with half of a group of potential jurors ruled out within minutes on impartiality grounds. Mr Trump denies falsifying business…
24 minutes ago About sharing Former PM Liz Truss says she hopes Donald Trump wins the next US election By Chris Mason, political editor & Sam Francis, political reporter BBC News Liz Truss has endorsed Donald Trump to win this year’s US presidential election, saying the “world was safer” when he was in the White…
21 minutes ago About sharing The war cabinet also met on Sunday, as seen in this Israeli government handout By Ido Vock BBC News Israel’s war cabinet has met to discuss its response to Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack. Israel did not make public whether a decision had been reached. Its allies have strongly…
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was blocked for hours during a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
15 minutes ago About sharing Hannah Gutierrez-Reed By Helen Bushby Culture reporter Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. The armourer, 26, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March. She was…
40 minutes ago About sharing By Emma Harrison BBC News Online Constance Marten has been “grand-standing on a premier league level” and telling “big fat lies” about her baby’s death, jurors have been told. In his closing speech, prosecutor Tom Little KC said that Ms Marten, 36, had lied to the jury about what happened….
44 minutes ago About sharing Floral tributes have been left to remember the 97 people who died By Jenny Coleman BBC News Liverpool has observed a minute’s silent to mark the 35th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. The silence was held across the city at 15:06 BST, the precise time the FA cup semi-final football…
29 minutes ago About sharing Watch: the devastating impact of coral bleaching By Georgina Rannard BBC climate reporter Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll. It has triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric…