At least seven people have been killed after tornadoes ripped through central US, destroying buildings and a petrol station that was sheltering dozens of people. Severe storms formed over Texas and Oklahoma on Saturday night, with Cooke County north of Dallas, Texas among the hardest-hit areas. Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington said five people had...
Welsh Secretary David TC Davies has denied that Wales will lose out on funding from Conservative plans for mandatory national service. Tories said they would introduce 12 months of national service for18-year-olds if they win the election. Mr Davies told BBC Politics Wales it would be funded with £1.5bn from “winding up of the Shared...
Mexico has extradited a senior figure in the Sinaloa drug cartel to the United States. Prosecutors allege Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas – known as El Nini, or the Slacker – was a “lead assassin” working for the sons of drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán, better known as El Chapo. He is wanted in the US on...
A video posted on Nicki Minaj’s Instagram shows an interaction between the rapper and an unnamed airport employee about her bags being searched. The man explains to the American performer that her luggage will have to be offloaded following a request from a police officer. He then proceeds to apologise twice to Minaj. Minaj was...
After forming at university as teenagers, London Grammar have quietly become one of the UK’s most successful bands. They started their set on the main stage about five minutes ago. Over the last decade, they’ve sold three million albums, two of which went to number one in the UK. And in 2021, they joined tonight’s...
BBC One report found patients were kept like “animals” at the now closed Tawel Fan ward at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire A fresh apology has been issued over the “poor care” received by some patients at Wales’ biggest health organisation. It follows a review into the action taken in the wake of four critical...
Twelve people have been injured due to turbulence on a flight from Doha to Dublin. The Boeing 787-9 dreamliner experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey, the operator of Dublin Airport, the DAA, said. Upon landing shortly before 13:00 local time, Qatar Airways flight QR107 was met by emergency services including airport police and fire officers....
Polling expert Sir John Curtice shares his thoughts on how the parties may perform at the upcoming general election in this 60 second video. He says the Conservatives need either a “record campaign swing” or “for the polls to be wrong” to stay in power, with Labour well ahead in the polls on the day...
The Colombian government has started exploring a sunk 18th Century Spanish galleon dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks”. The South American nation has also declared a protected archaeological area around the San José galleon – which was sunk by the British Royal Navy in 1708 in the Caribbean Sea. The ship, whose ownership remains contested,...
Hamas says it has fired rockets towards the Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in nearly four months. At least eight rockets were launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza and several were intercepted, the Israeli military says. The Israeli army is carrying out a military operation in Rafah. No...