Venice to ban large tourist groups and loudspeakers
The new rules will come into effect in June and are part of an effort to ease the impact of tourism.
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Teenager Littler beats legend Van Barneveld at World Darts
11 minutes ago About sharing Luke Littler will now face Brendan Dolan on New Year’s Day in the World Championship quarter-finals Luke Littler continued his historic run at the PDC World Darts Championship with a sensational 4-1 victory over five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld to reach the quarter-finals. The 16-year-old powered past the Dutchman…
Chris Mason: Get ready – general election talk will dominate 2024
12 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason, political editor BBC News In the blizzard of guesswork about politics in the coming year, there’s a fact as solid as a lump of coal at the bottom of your Christmas stocking. The election campaign has to begin in 2024, and it looks likely it will end,…
Inside Russia as war in Ukraine grinds into new year
The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg looks at life in a town near Moscow, and asks residents about the war.
Eurostar services to resume after major disruption
Many passengers are still stranded in London and Paris after flooding cancelled all Eurostar trains.
Israel-Gaza war: Displaced Gazans ‘living in the open’, UN says
45 minutes ago About sharing Many displaced Gazans are living “in the open, in the parks,” Juliette Touma of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has told the BBC. According to the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA), at least 100,000 people have fled to Rafah – which borders Egypt in Gaza’s south – in…
Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty actor dies at 75
12 minutes ago About sharing British actor Tom Wilkinson, known for films like The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has died suddenly aged 75. Wilkinson won a Bafta for 1997’s The Full Monty, and reprised the role of Gerald when a Disney+ streaming series revisited the characters 26 years…
Paula Abdul sues Nigel Lythgoe over alleged sexual assault – US media
13 minutes ago About sharing Ms Abdul (bottom right) claims that Mr Lythgoe (top left) first assaulted her during an early season of American Idol By Jacqueline Howard BBC News American singer and dancer Paula Abdul is suing television executive heavyweight Nigel Lythgoe over alleged sexual assault, according to US media. Ms Abdul’s lawsuit claims…
Preet Chandi: Army officer ‘fastest’ woman to ski to South Pole
43 minutes ago About sharing “Polar Preet” experienced temperatures of -30C during her solo expedition By Samantha Noble BBC News A British Army officer who already holds two world records for Antarctic trekking now also claims to have become the world’s fastest woman to complete a solo South Pole ski expedition. Preet Chandi believes she…
‘Shooting star’ streaks through English night sky
Videos posted on social media show what appears to be a meteor flying over England.