EPA By Francesca Gillett BBC News Twitter has pulled out of the European Union’s voluntary code to fight disinformation, the EU has said. Thierry Breton, who is the EU’s internal market commissioner, announced the news on Twitter – but warned the firm new laws would force compliance. “Obligations remain. You can run but you can’t
Month: May 2023
Getty Images Hundreds of Germans working in the education and cultural sectors will be expelled from Russia next month, the German foreign ministry says. It confirmed media reports that Russia had decided to cap the number of German employees from the start of June. They include teachers at the German school in Moscow and staff
Getty Images By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News A funeral home director in the US state of Indiana, where the decomposing bodies of more than 31 people were found, has pleaded guilty to more than 40 counts of theft. Prosecutors charged Randy Lankford, who owns the Jeffersonville business, for failing to complete the funeral services he
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Derek Cai BBC News A man has been arrested for opening a door of an Asiana Airlines flight as it was landing in South Korea. All 194 passengers survived the flight, which landed safely but with
Getty Images By James Gregory BBC News The Post Office has apologised for using racist terms to describe postmasters wrongly investigated as part of the Horizon IT scandal. An internal document shows fraud investigators were asked to group suspects based on racial features. More than 700 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for false accounting based on information
Getty Images By Laura Gozzi BBC News A judge has halted the implementation of a law that would have seen most abortions be banned in South Carolina. The bill outlaws abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy – before most women know they are pregnant. But 24 hours later, Judge Clifton Newman halted its implementation
Getty Images By James Landale Diplomatic correspondent Ukraine is ready to launch its long-expected counter-offensive against Russian forces, one of the country’s most senior security officials has told the BBC. Oleksiy Danilov would not name a date but said an assault to retake territory from President Vladimir Putin’s occupying forces could begin “tomorrow, the day
Getty Images By Paul Kirby BBC News, Ankara The last hours of Turkey’s presidential race have turned increasingly sour as Recep Tayyip Erdogan bids to extend his 20 years in power by five more. Ahead of Sunday’s run-off vote, opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu has courted nationalist votes by vowing to expel millions of Syrian refugees.
PA Media By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter TV presenter Phillip Schofield has admitted he lied to his colleagues and the media about an affair he had with a younger male ITV employee. The former This Morning host said his affair with the man, who the BBC is not naming, was “unwise but not illegal”. In
NAVY Photo via CBS By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington A gruelling training programme for US Navy Seals suffers from a lack of oversight, drug use and poor medical care, according to a new report. The US Navy’s report found that the programme put “candidates at significant risk” of injury and death. The investigation
@ramanmann1974 By Mattea Bubalo BBC News A government official in India has been suspended after he ordered a reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone. It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas dropped the device while taking a selfie. By the time it
PHOENIX — Sarah Douida traveled more than 5,000 miles from Paris with her partner to sit in the rafters at Footprint Center and watch Brittney Griner’s home debut in person. During warmups, they sit a few rows up from the court and marvel at the Phoenix Mercury center each time she comes around. Doudia is
Getty Images By Becky Morton BBC political reporter Two machine guns, two pistols and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition have been lost by UK armed forces over the past two years. Meanwhile, two SA80 Cadet PP Rifles were stolen in 2021. The figures, first reported by the Daily Mirror, also showed 258 laptops had been
Carlos Moore / Facebook By Nadine Yousif BBC News A lawyer for an 11-year-old boy shot by police in Mississippi says there is “no way” officers could have mistaken the child for an adult. Carlos Moore is asking for a “full and transparent” probe into what happened. The child, Aderrien Murry, was shot in the
British Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a nine-month review and consultation. Under a new participation policy that the governing body said was “predicated on fairness”, such athletes will compete in an ‘open category’ with men. The female category will be “for those whose sex was assigned
Getty Images By Kevin Peachey & Jemma Dempsey BBC News Mortgage costs are rising after higher than expected inflation figures this week raised forecasts of how much UK interest rates will go up. A range of lenders have increased the cost of new deals, with Nationwide the most significant with increases of up to 0.45
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