Zambia’s former First Lady Esther Lungu and her daughter Chiyeso Katete have been arrested over possession of properties suspected to be proceeds of crime. The two were arrested on Thursday in the capital, Lusaka, alongside another close relative identified as Charles Phiri, authorities said. Ms Lungu “failed to give a reasonable explanation” of how she...
Bruhat Soma correctly spelled words like “caixinha” and “sciniph” to win the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee and take home the $50,000 prize. The 12-year-old beat finalist Faizan Zaki by nine words, in a rapid elimination round that saw him correctly spelling 29 words in 90 seconds. The Scripps media group has sponsored the event...
After joining his boyhood club as a seven-year-old, Bellingham progressed rapidly through Birmingham City’s academy to make his first-team debut aged just 16 years and 38 days, becoming their youngest-ever player. He played one full season for Birmingham, making 41 appearances in the Championship and scoring four goals, before signing for Borussia Dortmund for £25m...
2 hours ago Cherylann Mollan,BBC News, Mumbai Reuters Prajwal Revanna had been absconding since 27 April Police in India have arrested a lawmaker who fled the country after being accused of sexually abusing several women. Prajwal Revanna, who left India on 27 April, was arrested on his arrival from Germany in the southern city of...
Just now Will Grant,Mexico and Central America correspondent Reuters Opinion polls have given Xóchitl Gálvez and Claudia Sheinbaum a wide lead over their rivals As Claudia Sheinbaum, the front-runner in Mexico’s presidential election, arrives for a rally in a packed park in the colonial city of Orizaba, the crowd starts to chant “Presidenta!” Those attending...
Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic criminal trial in New York. It is the first time a former or serving US president has been convicted of a crime. The BBC’s Nada Tawfik was outside court and runs through how the monumental day unfolded. Source link
The former president has been convicted on all counts in historic criminal trial. Source link
Alvin Bragg thanked the jury and prosecutors for their work “following the facts and the law”. He said his team at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had treated this case like they would any other, despite the defendant – a former president – being like no other in American history. Donald Trump was convicted on...
3 hours ago Rajan Datar,Presenter, The Tourist Trap, @rajandatar Getty Images The message was scrawled on a makeshift wooden placard with black marker pen and was in block capitals. It read: “Everywhere you look everyone is foreign.” Police said there were 10,000 marchers on the streets of Palma in Majorca on the last weekend of...
A BBC reporter who was in the courtroom describes the former president’s body language as the guilty verdict was read. Source link