Reuters Italian ex-interior minister Matteo Salvini has gone on trial in Sicily, accused of preventing a migrant boat from docking in August 2019. The right-wing politician denies kidnap and dereliction of duty charges. Prosecution witnesses include Hollywood actor Richard Gere, who was on board. Mr Salvini closed ports to rescue boats, leaving dozens of migrants
Getty Images Government plans for social media regulation need “far more clarity”, a Twitter boss has told the BBC. Katy Minshall said the draft Online Safety Bill failed to answer key questions such as how to define legal but harmful material. Instead of simply targeting those who post offensive content, the bill would put more
Getty Images Ministers are to fund a network of “family hubs” in England as part of a £500m package to support parents and children. The centres in 75 different areas will provide a “one stop shop” for support and advice, the government said. The funding, to be announced by the chancellor in Wednesday’s Budget, will
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Lakers teammates Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard were involved in an heated verbal exchange during a timeout in the first half of a 115-105 loss to the Phoenix Suns on Friday night. “I don’t want nobody to try to make this into an issue between me and AD,” Howard said
Reuters The US says more than 1.7 million migrants were detained along its border with Mexico in the past 12 months – the highest number ever recorded. More than one million of them were expelled to Mexico or their native countries, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection. Agents apprehended people from more
The gun that actor Alec Baldwin fired on set, killing a woman, was handed to him by an assistant director who told him it was safe, court records show. The unnamed director did not know the prop contained live ammunition and indicated it was unloaded by shouting “cold gun!”, the records say. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
Getty Images England’s city regions are set to receive billions of pounds to improve public transport in next week’s Budget. Chancellor Rishi Sunak will commit £6.9bn towards train, tram, bus and cycle projects when he sets out his spending plans on Wednesday. Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire are among the regions that
The Klamath river is becoming too warm for salmon to live. If it dries up, a Native American tribe could face its doom. The extreme drought in California has made the river shrink and heated it up. The fish couldn’t swim upstream because of the dams. Officials are removing them to save over a million
A Bristol artist has been making casts of women’s bodies to help them to reconnect themselves physically after facing trauma. Bristol artist Ellen Downes has been inviting women to her studio in Barton Hill to cast their torsos and paint them gold. When the cast is done, the models are then shown alongside their words.
The walls of three-year-old Sachu’s house collapsed when it was hit by heavy rain and flooding in Kerala this week. Sachu was buried in mud – his family couldn’t save him. The BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the communities that have been torn apart by the floods in the southern India state. Filmed and edited by
Jim Weber/The New Mexican Actor Alec Baldwin has expressed his shock and sadness after fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a New Mexico film set. He tweeted that he was in touch with her husband and had offered support. “My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who
Last week I waited in a packed press pen for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to descend the stairs at the Egmont Palace in Brussels. She’d already had lunch with King Philippe and later would go to a farewell concert featuring the works of Mozart and Beethoven. In other words, they were laying it on for
Magnolia Independent School District/YouTube Seven students are suing a Texas school district over its dress-code policy banning boys from having long hair. School officials suspended a 9-year-old boy for a month, barred him from recess and normal lunch breaks as punishment for long hair, the lawsuit claims. He and the other students, aged 7 to
AFP Nurses in Eswatini are refusing to treat police officers as they accuse them of shooting colleagues during a pro-democracy rally on Wednesday. Pro-democracy protests in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, formerly known as Swaziland, have swept the country since June. The government, which denies that security forces used live ammunition, has now banned all demonstrations.
Getty Images A new mutated form of coronavirus that some are calling “Delta Plus” may spread more easily than regular Delta, UK experts now say. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has moved it up into the “variant under investigation” category, to reflect this possible risk. There is no evidence yet that it causes worse
Getty Images Scientists advising the UK government say plans for reintroducing stricter Covid measures should be undertaken now and be ready for “rapid deployment”. Advising people to work from home could have the greatest impact on stopping viral spread, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) says. It comes as ministers in England resist pressure