More than 50 pilot whales have died and authorities are racing to save dozens more after a mass stranding on a beach in Western Australia. The pod was first spotted about 100 metres off the coast at Cheynes Beach on Tuesday, local time, tightly clustered in what witnesses say was an unusual sight. Once the
By Vanessa Clarke Education Reporter The government’s plan to expand funded childcare for working parents “will not work” unless the amount paid to providers is right, MPs have warned. Underfunding had left the sector “straining to provide” enough places for children, the Education Committee report found. Early-years charities have welcomed the inquiry’s focus on the
Getty Images By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis has been charged with “orchestrating a brazen insider trader scheme”, US attorney Damian Williams has said. Mr Williams used a video announcement to accuse the British billionaire of using inside information to “shower gifts on his friends and lovers”. Mr Lewis
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Laura Gozzi BBC News Extreme weather has been battering Italy from north to south. Wildfires are raging in Sicily after weeks of record-breaking temperatures, with local media warning that the city of Palermo is “encircled” by
Getty Images By Nadine Yousif BBC News Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis was involved in a car accident in Tennessee on Tuesday morning but is unhurt, a spokesperson for his campaign said. The governor was in Chattanooga, Tennessee for campaign fundraisers. His spokesperson, Bryan Griffin, said the accident happened when Mr DeSantis
Reuters By Paul Kirby BBC News A court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city’s airport and a metro station in March 2016. After a long trial and 19 days of jury deliberations, the court in Brussels returned
Reuters By Stephen McDonell in Beijing & Simon Fraser & Kelly Ng BBC News China has removed Qin Gang as foreign minister less than seven months after he was appointed to the post. Mr Qin had been seen as a close associate of President Xi Jinping. The role will be taken up by Communist Party
US Justice Department By Sam Cabral BBC News An Arkansas man who used the pole of an American flag to batter a fallen police officer during the US Capitol attack has received a 52-month jail term. Peter Francis Stager helped drag the officer down the steps of the Capitol, then “forcibly and repeatedly” struck him,
By Michael Buchanan and Judith Burns BBC News The number of people living in temporary accommodation in England has hit a 25-year high, according to the latest official figures. Almost 105,000 households were in temporary accommodation, including more than 131,000 children, on 31 March this year. This figure is 10% up on the same day
Workers taking down the Twitter sign at its San Francisco headquarters paused their work after police arrived at the scene. The sign change came after Twitter owner Elon Musk rebranded the social media company to X. Police in San Francisco told the news site Insider that officers at the HQ were responding to “a possible
Getty Images By Georgina Rannard BBC Climate & Science reporter The heatwaves battering Europe and the US in July would have been “virtually impossible” without human-induced climate change, a scientific study says. Global warming from burning fossil fuels also made the heatwave affecting parts of China 50 times more likely. Climate change meant the heatwave
Goktay Koraltan/BBC By Orla Guerin BBC News, Yemen If suffering had an address, it might be al-Rasheed Street, in Taiz, a Yemeni city ringed by mountains and rebel Houthi fighters. On this narrow street of rough-hewn homes, the young can’t escape a grinding conflict the world tends to forget. A slight boy with a mop
Getty Images By File on 4 BBC News The number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year. There were 109 potential victims, exploited for personal or financial gain, between January and March – twice as many as the same period in 2022. BBC File
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 DC The Biden administration has sued Texas over a floating barrier installed by the state in the Rio Grande river to deter migrants on the US-Mexico border. The barrier, made
Yahoo Sports Mini-camp mirage or Training camp tea leaf? + Mark Andrews interview Matt Harmon is joined by Kate Magdziuk to go through all of the mini camp storylines and determine if they’re worth following up on in training camp or simply a mirage. Later, he talks with Baltimore Ravens TE Mark Andrews about the
By Emma Saunders Entertainment reporter George Alagiah, one of the BBC’s longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer. A statement from his agent said he “died peacefully today, surrounded by his family and loved ones”. “George was deeply loved by everybody who knew him, whether it