Reuters – Carl Recine By Tom Symonds and Tom Grundy BBC News Five men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people have been jailed. The gang sold cut-price £10-a-month subscriptions, bragging they made money showing games not otherwise available to watch live in the UK because of “blackout” broadcasting
Month: May 2023
PA Media By Becky Morton & Nick Eardley BBC Politics Downing Street has denied accusations of a cover-up over the release of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages to the Covid inquiry. The inquiry has demanded the unredacted messages, along with diaries and notebooks, are handed over by Thursday. The Cabinet Office has argued
Video footage shared on social media appears to show a drone flying over the south west of Moscow. Several buildings have been damaged in Russia’s capital city after air defences shot drones down. It’s the second drone incident in Moscow after an alleged attack on the Kremlin earlier in May. The attack comes following a
Artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity, experts including the heads of OpenAI and Google Deepmind warn. Dozens have supported a statement published on the webpage of the Centre for AI Safety . “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and
Reuters By John Sudworth & Simon Maybin BBC News The possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out, a former top Chinese government scientist has told BBC News. As head of China’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Prof George Gao played a key role in the pandemic response and efforts
Kyiv City Military Administration By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News Blasts were heard in Kyiv and several buildings were set ablaze after Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital for the third night running. Officials say falling debris caused the blazes, as Ukraine’s air defences targeted incoming projectiles. At least one person is reported killed. Ukraine’s Air Force says
Getty Images By Jasmine Andersson & Hugh Pym BBC News A loophole allowing retailers to give free vape samples to children is set to be closed under government plans to curb their use among young people. A new crackdown on vape marketing would prevent the “unacceptable” targeting of children and teens, Rishi Sunak said. There
Reuters By Matt Murphy BBC News Russia has issued an arrest warrant for US Senator Lindsey Graham, after an edited video appeared to show him celebrating Russian troops’ deaths. The footage, which spliced together two separate moments, was posted by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office after the pair met in Kyiv on Friday. In it Senator
Getty Images By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York After several failed attempts to delay her time behind bars, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is set to report to federal prison this week. The disgraced entrepreneur was sentenced to over 11 years in prison and ordered to pay $452m (£365m) with her former business partner Sunny
Reuters By Nadine Yousif BBC News US President Joe Biden has said he is optimistic that a bipartisan deal to temporarily suspend the nation’s debt ceiling will pass through Congress. The deal must pass in the narrowly divided House of Representatives before it is voted on in the Senate. Democratic and Republican leaders say they
Shutterstock By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Nato has condemned as “totally unacceptable” attacks by demonstrators in Kosovo that left some 25 of its peacekeepers injured. Police and Nato troops clashed with Serb protesters in the north where there has been unrest over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors. Tear gas and stun grenades were used
Getty Images President Joe Biden has urged Congress to pass a deal to raise the government’s borrowing limit and prevent a potentially catastrophic default on US debt repayments. So what is in the deal? Negotiators from Democratic and Republican parties finalised an agreement on Sunday night. If approved, it would allow the federal government to
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Helen Bushby Entertainment reporter ITV’s This Morning appears to have addressed controversial headlines about “toxicity” on the show, with hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary stressing they enjoy working on it. “We all know we happen
Dashcam footage has captured the moment a car drove through a wildfire, with flames and smoke on both sides of a highway, in Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada. Video shows the car nearly colliding with another vehicle ahead obscured by thick smoke. The eastern Canadian city of Halifax has declared a local state of emergency
Vigili del Fuoco/Twitter By Francesca Gillett BBC News Four people have died after a boat carrying more than 20 passengers, including tourists, sank in strong winds on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. The boat overturned on Sunday evening between the towns of Sesto Calende and Arona, Italian media say. Five people were taken to hospital
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Orla Guerin BBC News, Ankara Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have serenaded his supporters by singing off-key after his victory – but he is pitch perfect when it comes to fighting elections. He read the electorate better
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