25 minutes ago Will Grant,Mexico and Central America correspondent in Guerrero BBC Cinthia Juarez is running for office in Acapulco after her friend, a famous gay rights activist, was murdered on the campaign trail In what is the most violent election campaign in Mexico’s history, the western state of Guerrero is the most dangerous place...
31 minutes ago Charlotte Edwards,BBC Business reporter Reuters For passengers on board the SQ321 flight from London to Singapore, it was a terrifying experience when the plane was hit by severe turbulence. A 73-year-old British man, Geoff Kitchen, died from a suspected heart attack, while dozens of others were injured. Turbulence occurs when a plane...
“Move fast and break things” is a motto that continues to haunt the tech sector, some 20 years after it was coined by a young Mark Zuckerberg. Those five words came to symbolise Silicon Valley at its worst – a combination of ruthless ambition and a rather breathtaking arrogance – profit-driven innovation without fear of...
“It is just horrible, isn’t it?” says James. “All those bootcut jeans and that sort of stuff.” This image of Manchester United’s players on their way to their 2005 Christmas party – fairly unremarkable at the time – regularly resurfaces as a younger audience marvel at the everyday appearance of a set of superstars walking...
6 hours ago Kevin Sharkey,BBC News NI BBC UK Information Commissioner John Edwards revealed the potential fine could have been £5.6m The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) could be fined £750,000 for a major data breach last year. Following the breach last summer, the PSNI confirmed that the information was in the hands of...
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she plans to vote for Donald Trump, her former opponent and boss, in the 2024 US presidential election. Ms Haley, who once served as Mr Trump’s United Nations ambassador, was the last of his major opponents to drop out of the party primary contest, in early March. At...
Periodical cicadas are unique insects that have a 13-year or a 17-year life cycle, most of which they spend underground. They come to the surface in groups that scientists call broods. Each brood with its descendants is named in a Roman number. This year, Brood XIX and Brood XIII are emerging together. The last time...
Twelve people have been taken to hospital including at least five children after a crash involving a bus and a tractor in Kent. The air ambulance, along with paramedics, police and firefighters, was called to the scene on the A227 near Meopham at about 15:25 BST, around the end of the school day. Kent Police...
21 minutes ago Lucy Manning,Special Correspondent, BBC News Hostages and Missing Families Forum Naama, 19, was among seven young female conscripts taken hostage by Hamas gunmen who attacked Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on 7 October The brother of Israeli hostage Naama Levy has said the family’s decision to release new harrowing video...
Reuters On the day that Rishi Sunak called a July election and the latest figures showed inflation falling, the government has been talking about its record on the economy. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt made a number of claims on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday, including comparisons between the UK economy and other countries. We have looked...