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By Christy Cooney BBC News A Tory MP has been suspended for misusing campaign funds after claims he made a late night phone call to ask for money to pay off “bad people”. The MP called an elderly party volunteer at 03:15 saying he was locked in a flat and needed £5,000 as a matter

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Holly Honderich BBC News Ukraine’s prime minister has told the BBC there will be a “Third World War” if Ukraine loses its conflict with Russia, as he urged the US Congress to pass a long-stalled foreign

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By David Gritten & Francesca Gillett BBC News Heavy rain has been battering Gulf states, causing flash floods that have killed 20 people and disrupted flights at the world’s second-busiest airport. Dubai International Airport says it is

Getty Images By Mark Poynting & Marco Silva BBC News Dubai has been hit by record floods over the past 24 hours, sparking misleading speculation about cloud seeding. So how unusual was the rainfall and what were the reasons behind the extreme downpours? How extreme was the rainfall? Dubai is situated on the coast of

PA Media By Christian Fuller BBC News, South East The families of two schoolgirls murdered in 1986 have received an apology from Sussex Police over mistakes in its investigations. Russell Bishop killed nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in a woodland den in Brighton in 1986. In 1987, he was cleared of their murders, but

Reuters By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Actor Hugh Grant has settled a privacy case against the publisher of the Sun newspaper, saying he could have faced a bill of up to £10m even if he had won. The star was suing News Group Newspapers (NGN), claiming journalists had used private investigators to tap his phone

Getty Images By Lora Jones Business reporter, BBC News Price falls for some food items like meat, crumpets and chocolate biscuits helped drive inflation down to its lowest level in two-and-a-half years. The rate consumer prices have been rising at fell to 3.2% in the year to March, down from 3.4% the month before, according

By Olga Ivshina, Becky Dale & Kirstie Brewer BBC Russian Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark – the BBC can confirm. In the second 12 months on the front line – as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy – we found the body count was nearly 25% higher

Getty Images By Kate Whannel & Sam Francis Political reporters, BBC News MPs have backed plans to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, effectively ensuring it will become law. The measures, championed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, survived despite opposition from several leading Tory figures – including two ex-PMs. Health Secretary Victoria Atkins

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Paul Kirby BBC News Denmark’s historic old stock exchange building in the centre of Copenhagen has been engulfed by fire. The 17th Century Børsen is one of the city’s oldest buildings and onlookers gasped as its

Getty Images By Branwen Jeffreys & Jess Warren Education editor A Muslim student at a London school has lost a High Court challenge against its ban on prayer rituals. Michaela School in Brent was taken to court by the girl over the policy, which she argued was discriminatory. The non-faith state secondary school previously told

Getty Images By Jeremy Bowen BBC international editor It wasn’t many days ago that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under enormous pressure. After seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed by the Israeli army in Gaza on 1 April, US President Joe Biden seemed finally to lose patience with his troublesome ally.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog chief yesterday expressed concern about possible Israeli targeting of Iranian nuclear facilities. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi said Iran closed its nuclear facilities on Sunday over “security considerations”, and that while the facilities reopened on Monday, IAEA inspectors were being kept away “until we see that the

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Madeline Halpert & Kayla Epstein BBC News, New York Donald Trump’s unprecedented criminal trial has begun with half of a group of potential jurors ruled out within minutes on impartiality grounds. Mr Trump denies falsifying business

Israeli government handout By Ido Vock BBC News Israel’s war cabinet has met to discuss its response to Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack. Israel did not make public whether a decision had been reached. Its allies have strongly condemned Iran’s actions, but urged Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to show restraint. While Iran has signalled it

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Georgina Rannard BBC climate reporter Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll. It has triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to