The board of Twitter has agreed to an $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover offer from the billionaire Elon Musk. Mr Musk, who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago, said Twitter had “tremendous potential” that he would unlock. He also called for a series of changes from relaxing its content restrictions to eradicating fake accounts.
Month: April 2022
Getty Images Murders of police officers rose by nearly 60% during 2021, amid a wider rise in violent crime across the US, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Mr Wray said 73 officers were killed in the line of duty last year. Murders of all kinds across the US
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmanuel Macron has done something no other French president has achieved before: winning re-election while still being in charge of his own government. The centrist president’s victory over Marine Le Pen may have been convincing, but he
PA Media Boris Johnson has suggested he would discipline the source of “misogynistic” claims about Labour’s deputy leader in a Sunday newspaper article. He condemned the claim Angela Rayner tries to distract him in Parliament by crossing and uncrossing her legs. The Mail on Sunday said some unnamed Tory MPs had made the allegation. Mr
Greg Abbott A member of the US National Guard – who went missing while attempting to save two migrants he thought were drowning on the Mexico border – has been named. Bishop E Evans, 22, went missing after entering the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas on Friday. The two migrants survived and were taken
Getty Images The Chinese capital Beijing has kicked off mass testing for millions of residents after a spike in Covid cases. The Chaoyang district reported 26 cases over the weekend – the highest number so far in Beijing’s latest surge. Long queues outside supermarkets and shops were seen despite government assurances there is sufficient food.
EPA US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said he hopes Russian losses in Ukraine will deter its leadership from repeating its actions. He added that Ukraine can still win the war if given the right support and praised the efforts of its military. “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t
It’s been one year since the death of Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, a 20-year old from South London who died after jumping into the Thames last year to rescue a woman. His best friends have had a song he wrote before he died played on Radio 1Xtra’s Breakfast show with Nadia Jae – and they’ve been speaking
BBC/Jonny Dunstan With Mariupol almost under full Russian control after weeks of bombardment, those who have escaped the southern Ukrainian city share chilling accounts of being held in cramped, unclean, processing camps before being evacuated. Oleksandr and Olena are queuing for coffee at a food kitchen just days after escaping from Mariupol. They are two
Getty Images Recent cases involving serious sexual offences have taken the longest time on record to go through Crown Courts in England and Wales, the BBC has found. Exclusive data compiled by the BBC found such cases took an average of nine months to complete in 2021, with huge variations between regions. Criminal barristers say
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmanuel Macron has won five more years as French president after a convincing victory over rival Marine Le Pen, who nevertheless secured the far right’s highest share of the vote yet. Projections give him victory by 58%
Getty Images Before the caveats, it is only fair to acknowledge the scale of President Macron’s achievement. Not enough is being made of this, but this is the first time ever that a governing president of the Fifth Republic has been re-elected. Yes, presidents have retained the Elysée before. But both François Mitterrand in 1988
Reuters Authorities battling Shanghai’s latest Covid outbreak have installed fences to restrict the population’s movement. Green barriers have appeared without warning outside buildings where those inside are forbidden from leaving. One resident told the BBC a green fence appeared inside his locked-up compound three days ago without any explanation. For weeks Shanghai’s 25 million-strong population
Getty Images Politicians have condemned a suggestion made in a newspaper that Labour’s Angela Rayner tries to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. The Mail on Sunday claimed some unnamed Conservative MPs said she tried to put the PM “off his stride”. Ms Rayner dismissed this as a “perverted
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward more measures to tackle the cost of living crisis. Surges in fuel, energy and food prices are hitting people’s pockets, with inflation running at a 30-year high.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Removing Boris Johnson from Downing Street would lead to “instability and uncertainty” in the country, according to the Conservative Party’s chairman. The PM has come under increasing pressure from MPs after being fined by the police for
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