11 minutes ago About sharing Vybz Kartel, pictured in 2005, was sentenced more than 10 years ago Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel’s conviction for murder has been overturned. The 48-year-old had been given a life sentence for the killing of associate Clive “Lizard” Williams on the Carribbean island in 2014. Kartel, real name Adidja Palmer,…
6 minutes ago About sharing Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner said her party “has to follow its procedures” when investigating Diane Abbott By Sam Francis, political reporter & Hannah Miller, political correspondent BBC News Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said she would “like to see” Diane Abbott back as a Labour MP. The party…
38 minutes ago About sharing Constance Marten has told a jury at the Old Bailey that her “influential” family supported social services when they took her children into care. She said her family were embarrassed the children didn’t come from an “upper class privileged background”. The court previously heard she and co-defendant Mark Gordon had…
Michael Matheson, who resigned as Scotland’s health secretary last month, racked up almost £11,000 on a parliamentary iPad.
1 hour ago About sharing By Paul Seddon Politics reporter, BBC News Michael Gove has named five groups he said would be assessed against a new government definition of extremism. The communities secretary told MPs he had concerns about the “Islamist orientation” of three of the organisations. He also named two groups he said promoted…
31 minutes ago About sharing By Alice Cuddy, Sean Seddon, Marie-Jose Al Azzi & Richard Irvine-Brown BBC News Before the sun rose on Saturday, 10 February, the cracks of gunfire were already echoing. Dr Amira al-Assouli was in Nasser hospital’s maternity building when she heard a man screaming the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith,…
13 minutes ago About sharing Haitians crossing back into their home country face an uncertain future – with a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the capital By Will Grant BBC News, on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border At the Dajabón border crossing between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a constant stream of trucks pulls up carrying undocumented…
Shipwreck survivors tell rescuers they had set sail from Libya a week earlier.
12 minutes ago About sharing Tom Hayes was sentenced to 11 years in jail in 2015. He served five and a half years By Andy Verity BBC News Two former bankers jailed for rigging interest rates are appealing against their convictions after an eight-year battle to clear their names. Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo were…
Assuming everything goes as planned, Starship will rise up and head down range across the Gulf of Mexico in the direction of the Atlantic and Africa. Stage separation – when the booster has done its job and comes apart from the Ship – is timed to occur at about two minutes and 44 seconds into…