By Christy Cooney BBC News A technical glitch means the BBC Weather app and website are showing users unusually low temperatures for their area. While most can expect warm temperatures around the seasonal average and scattered showers heading into next week, visitors to BBC platforms are being told to expect an autumnal 8C. A problem
Month: June 2023
Getty Images By Nick Triggle Health correspondent There will be a major expansion in training places for health staff in England, under a “historic” 15-year plan to fill NHS staffing shortages. It includes more university places for medical and nursing students and a greater emphasis on apprenticeships with the first ever scheme for doctors. A
PA Media By Leanna Byrne Business reporter, BBC News The boss of WH Smith has said the retailer won’t be opening any more UK High Street stores. Instead it will focus on UK airports and train stations, as well as opening shops in the US and Europe, its chief executive Carl Cowling told the BBC.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Mike Wendling BBC News A former sheriff’s deputy has been found not guilty of failing to protect students when a gunman opened fire at a Florida high school in 2018. Scot Peterson stayed outside during the
Shutterstock By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News A French policeman has been charged with homicide and is in custody over the killing of a teenager near Paris on Tuesday. The 17-year-old, named as Nahel M, was shot at point-blank range as he drove off and crashed soon afterwards. Anger at his killing has sparked violence across
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington The US Supreme Court has ruled that race can no longer be considered as a factor in university admissions. The landmark ruling upends decades-old US policies on so-called affirmative action,
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket plane has carried customers into space, in its first commercial flight. The 90-minute mission was purchased for the Italian Air Force and the Italian National Research Council. The unity vehicle climbed high over the New Mexico desert to the edge of space, before gliding back down to earth. The
EPA By Sarah Rainsford BBC Eastern Europe correspondent The Wagner Group is still recruiting fighters across Russia, days after staging a mutiny that led Vladimir Putin to raise fears of civil war. Using a Russian phone number, we called more than a dozen recruitment centres saying, if asked, that we were inquiring on behalf of
MSCHF By Alys Davies BBC News A microscopic handbag “smaller than a grain of salt” has been sold for $63,750 (£50,569) at auction. A microscope is needed to view the bag’s design, with the tiny object measuring 657 x 222 x 700 micrometres. “Narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle, this is
PA Media By Sean Seddon BBC News The government will appeal against a court ruling which deemed plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda are unlawful, Rishi Sunak has said. Court of Appeal judges ruled Rwanda had not provided enough safeguards to prove it is a “safe third country”. The prime minister said he “fundamentally
Planet Labs By Jake Horton & Daniele Palumbo BBC Verify Satellite images appear to show activity at a disused military base in Belarus, amid speculation about Wagner forces relocating to the country. An image from 27 June obtained by BBC Verify, and first reported by Radio Free Europe, shows what could be tents or similar
Ed Habershon/BBC By Malu Cursino BBC News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says an alleged Russian agent involved in the deadly attack in Kramatorsk will be charged with treason. Those helping Russia destroy lives deserve the “maximum penalty”, he said. Twelve people, including three teenagers, were killed in Tuesday’s missile strike on a popular restaurant. Ukraine
Getty Images By Annabelle Liang Business reporter Sri Lanka began a five-day bank holiday from Thursday to allow the crisis-hit nation to restructure $42bn (£33.2bn) in domestic debt. The country is facing its worst economic crisis since it won independence from the British in 1948. There are fears that the government’s restructuring plan could lead
In the span of a few hours, New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán went from one of the worst stretches of his career to MLB history. The right-hander threw the 24th perfect game in MLB history in an 11-0 Yankees win Wednesday, setting down the moribund Oakland Athletics 27 in a row at a sparsely
Getty Images By Antoinette Radford BBC News At least 77 people have been arrested in France during a second night of unrest triggered by the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old driver by police. The teenager, named as Nahel M, was shot at point-blank range as he refused a traffic stop and drove away. Videos shared
Reuters By Kayla Epstein BBC News, New York The case of a former sheriff’s deputy on trial for failing to confront the Parkland gunman in 2018 could set a new bar for how police are expected to respond to a school mass shooting. A Florida jury is currently deliberating whether Scot Peterson, 60, is guilty
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