A 20-year-old swimmer has died after getting into difficulty in the sea at Barmouth beach, North Wales Police has said. Rescue teams including RNLI lifeboats and a Coastguard helicopter were called to the popular Gwynedd beach at about 18:00 BST on Bank Holiday Monday, after reports of concern for a person in the water. The...
BBC Search teams on ropes scour the cliffs for evidence Officers are carrying out cliffside searches as part of a murder investigation into the death of a woman on Bournemouth beach. Flowers have also been left on the beach at the scene where Amie Gray was fatally stabbed on Friday. Ms Gray, a 34-year-old personal...
29 minutes ago James Landale,Diplomatic correspondent, @BBCJLandale Niall Carson/PA Wire A Palestinian flag was raised outside the Irish Parliament building to mark the decision Spain, Ireland and Norway have formally recognised a Palestinian state, in what they say is an attempt to refocus attention on efforts to find a political solution to the war in...
Kenya’s President William Ruto has reversed a contentious ban imposed in parts of the country on muguka, a variety of the popular stimulant known as khat or miraa. The consumption of the freshly plucked buds and soft leaves has been blamed for a rise in mental health issues and increased social ills, including crime. Three...
WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart has hit back at claims from Elon Musk that the messaging app “exports your user data every night.” Posting on X, Mr Cathcart said the allegation was simply “not correct”. He pointed to the fact WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning they cannot be read by the company at all. Yann...
Thousands of people are at further risk of landslides in Papua New New Guinea, as the search for people continues in a village in the province of Enga. The country’s disaster agency said it feared 2,000 people were buried by the landslide, a much higher estimate than the UN’s 670. Exact casualty figures for the...
A Dundee teenager is giving up the chance to see Scotland kick off the European Championships in Germany – to benefit good causes instead. Mitchell Carling decided to raffle off his tickets for the tournament’s curtain-raiser in Munich on 14 June, with the proceeds going towards diabetes and autism charities. The 16-year-old told BBC Scotland...
26 minutes ago Tim Page,BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images Madona Moses worked at Birmingham Heartlands hospital A nurse who silenced a seriously ill patient’s monitoring alarm has been struck off. Colleagues of Madona Moses told a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing she had silenced an alarm which indicated falling blood pressure. The system...
Clive Myrie and Laura Kuenssberg will lead the BBC’s election night coverage, the corporation has announced. They jointly replace previous election night anchor Huw Edwards, who left the BBC in April. Kuenssberg, who fronts a Sunday morning politics programme, will become the BBC’s first female election night anchor. She will co-host with Myrie, who presents...
A man has been served a court summons over the deaths of 10 giant tortoises found in Devon, police have said. A number of dead giant tortoises were found in Ashclyst Forest, north of Exeter, between January and March. Gary Priddle, 56, of Grecian Way, Exeter, is due to appear at Exeter Magistrates’ Court on...