PA Media The family of MP Sir David Amess have said their hearts are shattered as they called on people to “set aside hatred and work towards togetherness”. The Conservative MP was stabbed multiple times during a meeting with his constituents in Essex on Friday. A 25-year-old British man is being held under the Terrorism
Former US President Bill Clinton has been discharged from a Californian hospital after spending five nights under care. Mr Clinton had been receiving treatment for a urinary tract infection that developed into sepsis. The 75-year-old gave a thumbs up to waiting news crews as he walked out of hospital with his wife, former presidential candidate
Getty Images Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Sunday to outlaw prostitution in the country. Speaking to supporters at the end of his Socialist Party’s three-day congress in Valencia, Mr Sanchez said that the practice “enslaves” women. Prostitution was decriminalised in Spain in 1995 and in 2016 the UN estimated the country’s sex industry
Getty Images More than 20 people have been killed in floods in southern India after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, cutting off towns and villages. Several houses were washed away and people became trapped in the district of Kottayam in Kerala state. Video from the area showed bus passengers being rescued after their vehicle
MPs should remain “accessible to the public”, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said after Sir David Amess’s killing. The death of the Essex MP has raised concern over the safety of politicians and the abuse they receive online. Ms Patel said she and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle were working on “practical” measures to protect
AFP via Getty Images A group of US missionaries and their family members, including children, are reported to have been kidnapped by an armed gang near Haiti’s Port-au-Prince. At least 15 people were taken off a bus after visiting an orphanage, Haitian security sources have told news media. Few details are known, but US officials
Andrew Parsons / No10 Downing Street HANDOUT The Speaker of the House of Commons has said he is working “at pace” with police and the home secretary to find ways to improve safety for MPs. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who oversees MPs’ security, said he had reflected on their vulnerability but did not want them to
A pig patrol has been recruited by one of Europe’s busiest airports to keep geese away from farmland in between the runways. The team of 20 drafted in by Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is part of a range of measures being used to reduce bird-strikes. The BBC’s correspondent in the Netherlands Anna Holligan has been to
Getty Images Medical science has transformed the pandemic, and the experimental technologies that helped develop vaccines in record time have strapped rocket boosters to scientific ambitions. Could we be entering a golden age of new vaccines? If you head to the cutting edge of vaccinology you will find Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, from the Jenner
US real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary series The Jinx, has been hospitalised with Covid-19 just days after he was sentenced to life in prison. Durst was found guilty on Thursday of killing his best friend Susan Berman in 2000. He murdered her to stop her talking to police about his
PA Media A man detained after MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death on Friday is 25-year-old Ali Harbi Ali, Whitehall officials have confirmed to the BBC. Police said the British man was being held at a London police station under the Terrorism Act 2000 and officers have until 22 October to question him.
AFP Opponents of Sudan’s transition to democracy took to the streets of Khartoum on Saturday to call on the army to take control of the country. Several thousand demonstrators gathered outside the presidential palace as the country’s political crisis deepens. Military and civilian groups have been sharing power since the toppling of President Omar al-Bashir
Getty Images Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has had a job offer from the United Nations withdrawn. Mr Hancock announced this week that he had been given a role helping Africa’s economy recover from Covid. The UN said he would bring valuable experience – but Mr Hancock now says a rule has come to light
PA Media The home secretary has said politicians cannot be cowed following Friday’s fatal attack on MP Sir David Amess. Priti Patel’s comments came after she laid flowers, alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, at the scene of the stabbing in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Police are treating the attack as a
Getty Images The army general who seized power in Myanmar in February has been excluded from an annual summit of regional leaders later this month. The Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) agreed to invite a non-political representative from Myanmar instead of Gen Min Aung Hlaing. It is a unprecedented move for the 10-member
Reuters Russia on Saturday recorded 1,000 Covid-related deaths in a single day for the first time since the pandemic began. The figure had been rising all week, with the Kremlin blaming the Russian people for not taking up vaccination. Only about a third of the population has had a jab, amid wide distrust of the