Each year the Sun aligns with New York City’s gridiron street layout and people gather to watch it set between the skyscrapers. The ‘Manhattanhenge’ sunset can be seen from 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd and 57th streets in Manhattan as well as across the East River in the Long Island City section of Queens. This year’s...
Some Nigerians have expressed outrage after the country’s national anthem was changed with little consultation. President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed into law the bill to revert to Nigeria’s old national anthem which was dropped by a military government in 1978. The newly re-adopted anthem, which begins “Nigeria, We Hail Thee,” was written by Lillian...
2 hours ago Mark Norman,BBC South East Health Correspondent Family photograph Family seen here consoling the woman in A&E said the situation was a “scandal” A stroke patient who waited more than 36 hours on a trolley at a Brighton hospital stayed in A&E for nine days, the BBC has learned. Last week, friends said...
The PM told the BBC’s political editor he was “thoroughly enjoying” himself meeting voters in the election campaign. Rishi Sunak was asked if he was changing people’s minds and he claimed he was. Speaking in Devon, he added there would not be a bigger plan in the campaign as the Conservative policy for national service....
A pair of giant pandas from China will soon be housed at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC, the zoo has announced. Two-year-old male panda Bao Li and two-year-old female panda Qing Bao are set to arrive in the US capital later this year. News of their coming arrival was announced with a video...
9 minutes ago Kevin Sharkey,BBC News NI PSNI Caoimhe Morgan’s body was found in her north Belfast home in December 2021 A court has heard how a child was found beside the body of his murdered mother. The details emerged as a man was told he must spend 17 years in prison for the murder...
North Korea has sent at least 260 balloons over the border into the South, scattering suspected excrement, rubbish and propaganda leaflets. South Korea warned the public about the unpleasant airborne arrival and sent the army out to inspect and collect it. The two countries have both used balloons to spread propaganda since the Korean war...
Just now Steven McIntosh,Entertainment reporter Disney Dwayne Johnson has said “it’s time to set sail”, as the first full-length trailer for Moana 2 is released. The film is a sequel to 2016’s Moana, which followed an adventurous Polynesian teenage girl who sets on a daring mission across the ocean to save her people. Following the...
20 hours ago Tanya Gupta,BBC News, South East Students’ Union Affected students have hand-delivered a letter to university bosses Overseas students struggling with tuition fees amid a currency crisis in Nigeria have been told they will not be removed from University of Sussex courses. The Students’ Union had revealed 1,009 students were warned in April...
Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi has confirmed to the BBC his son Jake Bongiovi has married Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown. “They are great, they are absolutely fantastic,” Bon Jovi told BBC’s The One Show on Tuesday, following speculation the couple had got married. “It was a very small, family wedding and the bride...