5 minutes ago Georgina Rannard,BBC climate and science reporter BBC/Gwyndaf Hughes A plant that went extinct in the wild has been re-introduced to the UK mainland. We can’t tell you the exact location – it’s a secret, to keep it safe. It’s just one small plant but with one in six species in the UK...
A leading think tank has issued a stark warning about the financial challenges awaiting the next government. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the state of public finances hangs over the election campaign “like a dark cloud”. It warns more tax rises or cuts to public services could lie ahead. It calls for an...
Kenyan president ‘confident’ in police deploying to Haiti “I have a team already in Haiti as I speak to you,” Mr Ruto tells the BBC. “That will give us a frame of what things look like on the ground, the capabilities that are available, the infrastructure that has been set up, and once we have...
The tenor of questioning does not surprise Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. “The survivor may be blamed for behaving in some way which ‘provokes’ the offender; she may be blamed for destroying the family, for disrespecting her husband, or the parents and in-laws,” he told the BBC. “It...
13 minutes ago Aseem Chhabra, Cannes,Film writer BBC Kapadia’s film follows two women navigating careers and love in Mumbai Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s new film opens with street scenes of contemporary Mumbai. But All We Imagine as Light does not show us the rich, elite Mumbai of Bollywood stars and billionaire industrialists. Instead the filmmaker...
A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week. Yara Nardi/REUTERS Rawdah Mohamed poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the film Marcello Mio at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in France Anselmo Cunha/AFP An aerial view shows an aircraft on the tarmac of the flooded Salgado Filho...
13 minutes ago Phil McCausland, reporting from New York,BBC News Elizabeth Williams Elizabeth Williams, the court artists, said this piece showed the number of obstructions that she and other artists had in capturing the legal proceedings. It is only through their deft hands and keen eyes that the world gets a peek into the courtroom...
Four people have been injured and one person has been arrested following a clash between pro-Iran supporters and anti-Iranian government protesters in north-west London. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Alperton Lane, Wembley, at 18:21 BST on Friday following reports of disorder. An event was taking place to mark the death of the...
54 minutes ago Sam Cabral ,Jessica Murphy Reuters A US judge has denied a motion by Alec Baldwin to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge over a deadly film set shooting in 2021. Halyna Hutchins, 42, was shot with a gun Mr Baldwin was using during a rehearsal on the set of Rust, a Western being...
The day also saw a surprise from Rachel Chinouriri on the BBC Introducing Stage, who was only revealed as Friday’s stage headliner in the morning. She played songs from her recent debut album What A Devastating Turn Of Events. “Me and my friends, we’re quite good at keeping secrets. I’m a Scorpio so quite secretive,”...