Higher interest rates help to double HSBC profits
The banking giant also said it had taken a $500m hit related to China’s crisis-hit property market.
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Adam Johnson: Tributes to ice hockey player after ‘freak accident’
Fans gather to mourn Adam Johnson, who was fatally injured by a skate blade during a match.
Portuguese police apologise to Madeleine McCann’s parents
49 minutes ago About sharing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance 16 years ago remains unsolved Portuguese police have apologised to the parents of Madeleine McCann for the way they handled the three-year-old’s disappearance. Madeleine went missing from a holiday complex in the Algarve in May 2007. A delegation of senior officers travelled from Lisbon to London earlier…
Storm Ciarán: Flood warnings in place as UK braces for heavy rain
1 hour ago About sharing By Aoife Walsh BBC News Parts of the UK are poised for heavy rain and flooding over the next few days ahead of the arrival of Storm Ciarán later this week. Flood warnings are in place across parts of England, Scotland and Wales, while there are also yellow rain warnings…
Lilie James: Murder at elite school horrifies Australia
4 hours ago About sharing Lilie James’s death has sparked conversations about women’s safety By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News On Thursday, as Australia woke to the news a body had been found inside the bathroom of an elite Sydney private school, horror rippled around the country. Police had turned up at St Andrew’s Cathedral School…
Kenya’s school floggings: The children suffering from a hidden epidemic
1 hour ago About sharing By Tom Odula in Nairobi & Tamasin Ford in London BBC Africa Eye Caleb Mwangi was beaten so severely at his school in Kenya after he took extra food at breakfast that he was put into an induced coma and spent 11 days in an intensive care unit. “When I…
Thurrock tower block scaffolding ‘is a ladder for cat burglars’
32 minutes ago About sharing Leonie Ward says she feels “vulnerable” living in the tower block By Laurence Cawley & Simon Dedman BBC News, Essex Lone parent Leonie Ward was fast asleep in her tower block flat when a neighbour spotted a person dressed in dark clothing pushing at her window from the outside. The…
Baby joy for mum after two children killed in M4 crash
3 hours ago About sharing By Jenny Casterton Producer, The Crash Detectives A grieving mum whose two children were killed in a motorway crash by a drink and drug driver has said her new child is a “gift from the kids”. Gracie-Ann Lucas, four, and three-year-old Jayden-Lee died after their car was hit on the…
Fabio Grosso: Lyon manager ‘seriously injured’ as team bus attacked in Marseille
Marseille’s Ligue 1 home match with Lyon was postponed after visiting boss Fabio Grosso was injured when his team’s bus was attacked on the way to the ground. Images on social media showed a bloodied Grosso laid on a stretcher. The Lyon bus was hit by rocks on its way to Stade Velodrome and supporter…
Anti-Israel mob storms Dagestan airport
Israel urges Russia to protect “all its citizens and all Jews” after a mob storms Makhachkala airport.