Getty Images China’s top security agency has called for a crackdown on “hostile forces” after rare protests against Covid rules in Chinese cities at the weekend. Police officers have flooded now-empty protest sites, with some protesters saying police have contacted them to seek information on their whereabouts. Meanwhile the country’s health officials say lockdowns should
Month: November 2022
Getty Images By Rachel Russell BBC News For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales describe themselves as Christian, the Census 2021 has revealed. The proportion of people who said they were Christian was 46.2%, down from 59.3% in the last census in 2011. In contrast the number who said
Salvamento Maritimo By Mattea Bubalo BBC News Three stowaways have been found sitting on the rudder of a ship after it completed an 11-day voyage from Nigeria, Spanish authorities say. A photo shared by the coastguard shows the men sitting on the rudder at the oil tanker’s stern, their feet less than a metre away
There are 12 teams that have never won a Super Bowl: the Vikings, Bills, Bengals, Falcons, Panthers, Cardinals, Titans, Chargers, Browns, Lions, Jaguars, and Texans. The Jets haven’t won since the 1968 season. For the Dolphins it’s 1973. Teams like the Raiders and Bears haven’t won since the 1980s. Even rock-solid franchises like the Packers
Getty Images By Elsa Maishman BBC News Russia has hit out at comments from the Pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the invasion of Ukraine. The “cruellest” troops are generally Chechens and Buryats, Pope Francis told a US magazine. He also labelled the Holodomor famine caused by the
CBS News By Nadine Yousif BBC News Five police officers in the US state of Connecticut have been charged after a man they arrested was partially paralysed in the back of a police van. Randy Cox was being driven to a police station in New Haven when the driver braked hard, causing him to be
Amy Appleyard By Simon Read Personal finance reporter, BBC News Amy Appleyard had been paying £136 a month to heat and light her home. Knowing that energy bills would rise in the autumn, she and her family had cut back on how much power they were using. But they were shocked to be told that
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sam Cabral BBC News The world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, has erupted for the first time in almost 40 years. The lava flow is mostly contained within the summit, but residents have been placed
Reuters A white gunman who shot and killed 10 people in a racially motivated attack in Buffalo, New York, has pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism charges. The plea means he will be sentenced to life in prison without parole. New York does not have the death penalty. The 19-year-old killer initially pleaded not guilty
Reuters Rishi Sunak has said the so-called “golden era” of relations with China is over, as he vowed to “evolve” the UK’s stance towards the country. In his first foreign policy speech, the PM said the closer economic ties of the previous decade had been “naïve”. He said the UK now needed to replace wishful
Protesters have taken to the streets across China following a deadly fire in a locked down block of flats. They are demanding an end to Covid lockdowns – and some have made rare calls for President Xi Jinping to stand down. Here is a timeline of how the demonstrations unfolded.
Police handout By Mattea Bubalo BBC News A drug “super cartel” that controlled about a third of Europe’s cocaine supply has been dismantled, police have announced. Dubbed Operation Desert Light, 49 people were arrested across six European countries, the EU’s police agency, Europol, said. They included a British national, who is suspected of heading the
Reuters Protests against Covid restrictions which erupted over the weekend appear to have died down, as a heavy police presence is reported in Chinese cities. Large barriers have gone up along the main protest road in Shanghai and police have made several arrests. They have been stopping people taking photos of the protests and deleting
A new theatre production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol will feature sign language to be “more inclusive” for deaf audiences. Deaf actors will perform British Sign Language (BSL) at Hull Truck Theatre this year, with some characters in the show being adapted. Some of Scrooge’s family are to be portrayed as deaf, allowing the
Getty Images By Matt Murphy BBC News So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a vigil to remember the victims of a fire that catalysed the
US Navy A US Navy officer who helped to stop a mass shooting at a gay club in Colorado Springs has said he “simply wanted to save the family I found”. Thomas James, a second class petty officer, pushed a rifle out of the shooter’s reach while army veteran Richard Fierro repeatedly struck the attacker
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