Model Kate Moss testified on Wednesday in the US defamation trial involving actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Mr Depp’s legal team asked her questions about their relationship during the 1990s and a claim that he had once pushed her down the stairs. Appearing by video link, Ms Moss denied he ever “pushed me, kicked
Getty Images As the US reels from another school shooting, more details are emerging of the horror that unfolded in Texas near the border with Mexico. Witnesses have described traumatised children covered in blood being hugged by parents. Others had to come to terms with devastating news of the deaths of loved ones. But Tuesday
Cumbria Police A woman who murdered a baby boy she wanted to adopt has been jailed for at least 18 years. Laura Castle shook 13-month-old Leiland-James Corkill at their home in Barrow, Cumbria, in January 2021. She had admitted manslaughter but at Preston Crown Court was found guilty of murder and child cruelty. Castle, 38,
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When their dogs started digging insistently at a spot in the woods, villagers in Zavalivka called in the authorities. A Ukrainian military team were soon at the scene in white protective suits, carefully removing the topsoil. They
The head coach for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, a team based in San Francisco, refused to talk about basketball during a news conference and instead delivered an emotional speech condemning gun violence in the United States. On Tuesday, 19 young children and two adults died in a shooting in south Texas, after a gunman
Getty Images North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles early Wednesday morning, South Korea’s military has said. Authorities in Seoul said the missiles were fired in the space of less than an hour from the Sunan area in Pyongyang. It comes just a day after US President Joe Biden left the region, following a trip
Speaking on the floor of the US Senate moments after news of the deadly Texas school shooting broke, Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy accused his colleagues of complacency and begged them to pass gun control legislation. The 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the state he represents shocked Americans. Twenty of the 26
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fifteen people have died in a shooting at a primary school in Texas, says Governor Greg Abbott. The 18-year-old gunman killed 14 students and one teacher at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde. The governor
Reuters Sue Gray – the senior civil servant tasked with investigating Downing Street lockdown parties – will hand her completed report to No 10 on Wednesday. The final work on the inquiry is being finished on Tuesday evening, before the report is expected to be emailed over. It will then be up to No 10
Andy Behrens and I teamed up on an episode of the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast this week to offer up the five most interesting teams for 2022 leagues. A great idea by our producer, I decided it might be good to unpack my top five a little further here. A lot is going to change
Science Photo Library The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has became the first Gulf state to record a case of monkeypox. The Czech Republic and Slovenia also reported their first cases on Tuesday, joining 18 other countries to detect the virus outside its usual Africa base. That number is expected to rise further still, but experts
Getty Images A government plan to help support people with the rising cost of living could come as soon as Thursday, the BBC understands. The PM and chancellor have been under growing pressure to act as prices for fuel, food and energy continue to soar. But BBC political editor Chris Mason said the government was
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Insiders who attended events at Downing Street during lockdown have told the BBC how staff crowded together and sat on each other’s laps and how party debris was left out overnight. For the first time, insiders who
Getty Images The typical household energy bill is set to rise by about £800 a year in October, the energy regulator warns. Ofgem boss Jonathan Brearley said the energy price cap, which limits how much providers can raise prices, is expected to increase to £2,800 a year, due to continued volatility in gas prices. Mr
Vladimir Putin is “weaponising Ukraine’s crops” as “a blackmail tool” for the rest of the world, Poland’s prime minister said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Mateusz Morawiecki told the BBC it was like what “Stalin did in 1933”. In a wide-ranging interview, he also warned that “only Putin” would be “happy” with a
TV: TNT, 9 p.m. ET BetMGM line: Mavericks -1.5 After a thrilling conference semifinal round produced a pair of Game 7s, the West finals have crashed with a resounding thud. We have the peaking Golden State Warriors and outmatched Dallas Mavericks to thank. History suggests the Mavericks are toast. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to