BBC Africa Eye By Njeri Mwangi in Nairobi & Tamasin Ford in London BBC Africa Eye Vulnerable residents at an elderly care home near Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, have been mistreated and neglected, a BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed. Secret filming shows staff members physically mistreating residents, dumping food directly onto tables without any plates,
PA Media By Matt Murphy BBC News Fines for businesses and landlords who knowingly support illegal migrants are set to triple under new rules announced by the government. Firms who are found to have repeatedly employed illegal migrants could face fines of up to £60,000 per breach. The Home Office argues “illegal working and renting
Gemma O’Doherty Telegram Channel By Marianna Spring BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent A grieving mother and her lawyer have been targeted by an extreme campaign of abuse after suing a conspiracy theory newspaper which falsely claimed her son died from a Covid vaccine. The Irish Light repeatedly abused Edel Campbell online and its supporters
Reuters By Ece Goksedef BBC News Donald Trump has said he will ask the judge in his election fraud case to step aside on what he called “very powerful grounds”. He claimed that “there is no way I can get a fair trial” unless she does. His call came after the prosecution requested a court
MELBOURNE, Australia — Megan Rapinoe’s storybook World Cup career ended “just like a sick joke.” It gave her the highest of highs, trophies and celebrity, memories and indescribable joy, but it ended here at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium with what she later called “dark humor.” She’d stepped up to a penalty spot, a location she’d
Google A 12-year-old boy has died in a hit-and-run crash on a motorway in West Yorkshire. The child was struck by a vehicle on the eastbound carriageway of the M62 near Cleckheaton shortly before 22:00 BST on Saturday. West Yorkshire Police said he had been trying to make his way from the central reservation to
AFP By Aoife Walsh BBC News At least 30 people have been killed and 100 injured when a train derailed in southern Pakistan, a police spokesman has confirmed. Several carriages of the Hazara Express overturned near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, about 275km (171 miles) from the largest city Karachi. Wounded passengers were moved to
Gift Ufuoma/BBC By Chris Ewokor BBC News, Sokoto Niger’s military junta has just hours to restore ousted President Mohamed Bazoum to power or face the possibility of military action from the regional bloc Ecowas. Last Sunday, West African leaders gave the coup leaders a week to comply with its demands or it would “take all
Getty Images By Aoife Walsh BBC News Actor Jamie Foxx has apologised for an Instagram post that was accused of being antisemitic. Foxx, 55, has deleted the post, which read: “They killed this dude name Jesus… what do you think they’ll do to you???! #fakefriends #fakelove”. Some social media users said Foxx’s post echoed an
Border Patrol agents found seven spider monkeys in a backpack when they detained a man trying to smuggle the animals into the US from Mexico. At least six spider monkey species living in Central and South America are considered endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. The monkeys were
Getty Images By Matt Murphy BBC News Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s upcoming trial have asked for limits on what the ex-president can publicly say about the case, after he shared a threatening message online. In a filing late on Friday night, the prosecutors said they feared Mr Trump might disclose confidential evidence. They justified the
Getty Images Storms bearing unusually torrential rain and ferocious winds this early in the north Pacific typhoon season have flooded large swathes of East Asia, with China among the countries worst hit. In the capital of Beijing alone, the amount of rain over the past week has broken a 140-year-old record. People in Beijing and
PA Media By Sean Seddon BBC News A controversial rule which deducted living costs from compensation paid to wrongly imprisoned people has been scrapped. The government announced the change on Sunday after the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit, prompted calls for it to
By Adam Robinson, Erwan Rivault and Olga Robinson BBC Verify It is one year since the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was largely destroyed by Russian forces and captured. It is now being transformed and presented as a showcase for rule from Moscow – and some Russians are even hoping to buy homes there. Russia claimed
Telegram/Volodymyr Zelensky By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News A Russian guided air bomb has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing and injuring people, Ukraine’s president has said. Volodymyr Zelensky said rescuers were now trying to tackle a blaze after the strike on the Kupiansk community in the Kharkiv region on Saturday night. “Defeating
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Chandrayaan-3, India’s latest Moon mission, has entered the lunar orbit, the country’s space agency has said. The spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off on 14 July. It