Getty Images Bruce Willis will step away from his acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that impedes a person’s ability to speak and write. The actor’s family, including his wife Emma Heming-Willis and ex-wife Demi Moore, announced his condition on Instagram on Wednesday. Aphasia is “impacting his cognitive abilities”, the statement said.
Month: March 2022
Getty Images British ports have described Grant Shapps’ new pay plans for the ferry industry as “unworkable”. The transport secretary has urged ports to block ferries from docking if they do not pay their crew the UK minimum wage, with plans to create new laws. The move comes after P&O Ferries sacked 800 of its
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson must resign as prime minister over “widespread criminality” in Downing Street during lockdown, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes after the Metropolitan Police said the first 20 fines for Covid rule-breaking at parties are
Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that shelling of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol will only end when Ukrainian troops surrender. Mr Putin made the comments during an hour long phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday night, the Kremlin said in a statement. But French officials said the Russian
EPA The governor of Ukraine’s Chernihiv region says there is no let-up in attacks by Russia, despite its pledge to reduce military activity there. The governor, Viacheslav Chaus, told the BBC that he did not believe Russia’s promise. “We’ve already seen that there wasn’t even a single time when their military forces kept their word,”
During the 1980s, a cultural movement spread across the country with the arrival of acid house. By the early 90s, raves were huge events with thousands of people. Now a new virtual reality experience taking visitors on a journey back to the time of glowsticks and whistles has opened as part of celebrations to mark
BBC News Russia says it doesn’t target civilians – the buildings in which they live and work, or the people themselves. Lying in a hospital bed in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Mykolaivna makes a mockery of that Russian denial. As far back as the second week in March, the United Nations said
Reuters Five people have been shot dead on the outskirts of Tel Aviv in Israel, medics say, in the third deadly attack of its kind within a week. It happened in Bnei Brak, one of the country’s most populous ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas. The gunman was shot dead by police, a paramedic at the scene said.
Kate Nothnagel Schools in 23 countries, with 405 million pupils, are still partially or fully closed because of Covid, the United Nations Children’s Fund says. The charity, Unicef, estimates 147 million children have missed at least half of their in-person schooling. Some vulnerable children, especially girls, have not returned to those schools that have reopened.
Getty Images Jada Pinkett Smith has broken her silence after the outcry over her husband slapping Chris Rock for making a joke at her expense. In a brief post to Instagram, the actress wrote of a “season for healing” in apparent reference to the Oscars incident. Her husband, Will Smith, was condemned by the awards
Science Photo Library Free Covid tests will still be available for some groups, including NHS staff caring directly for patients, the government has confirmed as it winds down the service for the public. From 1 April, most people will have to pay for a lateral flow test in England. It is part of the government’s
Getty Images Official White House logs from 6 January, 2021 – the day the US Capitol was breached by a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters – show a seven hour and 37-minute gap in presidential phone activity while the assault was at its height. The bipartisan congressional committee investigating the attack had fought a lengthy
Getty Images In a co-ordinated move, four EU countries are expelling more than 40 Russian diplomats suspected of spying. Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic issued expulsion orders to a total of 43 embassy staffers on Tuesday afternoon. The move follow similar actions taken by other EU members, including Poland, in the past
Richard Stanton Some 201 babies might have survived had better maternity care been provided by an NHS trust, the BBC has learned. Dozens of other children sustained life changing injuries as a result of the failure to provide adequate treatment. Mothers also died or sustained injuries as a result of failures by the Shrewsbury and
EPA Twenty fines will be issued as part of the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that breached Covid rules. The police will not be saying who is fined or confirming which events the fixed penalty notices relate to. However, Downing Street has said it would say if the prime minister is among the recipients.
EPA Russia has announced it will “drastically reduce” military combat operations in two key areas of Ukraine “to boost mutual trust” in peace talks. The decision to scale back operations around the capital, Kyiv, and the northern city of Chernihiv is the first sign of tangible progress in talks since Russia invaded on 24 February.
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