1 hour ago Comments About sharing By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News UK inflation has fallen to its lowest level for more than two years, driven largely by a drop in fuel prices. Prices rose by 3.9% in the year to November, down from 4.6% in October. Slowing price rises for food, including staples…
Colin Armstrong, 78, from North Yorkshire, had been taken hostage from his farm near Guayaquil.
39 minutes ago About sharing Mother-of-pearl cloud shimmering high in the sky in Angus on Tuesday evening By Simon King BBC Weather Residents in Scotland were amazed by a rare sight in the sky on Tuesday evening. Looking like a “portal to the next dimension” or possibly a spaceship, the shimmering colours of nacreous cloud…
8 minutes ago About sharing Spectacular helicopter shots show the eruption on the island’s coast By Oliver Slow BBC News A volcano that erupted in south-west Iceland on Monday is weakening, although new vents could open at short notice, the country’s meteorological office has said. The eruption, which took place on the Reykjanes peninsula, came…
14 minutes ago About sharing Seb Jellema has run every day since January – and plans to continue until he’s in his 60s By Angie Brown BBC Scotland, Edinburgh and East reporter A super-fit Scottish schoolboy is working to break a world record for running – but he will be in his 60s before he…
33 minutes ago About sharing More than half a million students took the gruelling Suneung exam this year By Fan Wang BBC News A group of South Korean students are suing the government because their college admission examination ended 90 seconds earlier than scheduled. They are asking for 20 million won ($15,400; £12,000) each –…
1 hour ago About sharing File photo of women protesting against so-called honour killings in Pakistan By Kelly Ng BBC News Italy has sentenced a Pakistani couple to life in prison for killing their 18-year-old daughter because she refused an arranged marriage. Saman Abbas’s body was found beneath a farmhouse in northern Italy in November…
57 minutes ago About sharing Rescue workers search a house for survivors in in Kangdiao village, Dahejia, Jishishan By Frances Mao in Singapore Rescue efforts for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 131 in China’s north-west are nearly over. Authorities on Tuesday said they were wrapping up rescue operations and would now focus…
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, was known to associate with powerful figures.
The father left the children – ages 2, 4, 5, 11 and 13 – while he shopped for gifts, police say.