Sarah Rainsford Southern Europe correspondent BBC As protesters marched through central Barcelona on Sunday, they shouted at the tourists who were filming them to “Go Home!”. Bemused couples sitting in street cafés got squirted with water pistols and a luxury clothes store was pasted with stickers declaring the tourists who’d shut themselves inside unwelcome. Tourism...
A 57-year-old Australian police officer has been shot dead on a rural property in Tasmania while serving a warrant to repossess a home, say police. The officer had arrived at a house in North Motton, near the town of Ulverstone, on Monday morning when he was fired at by “a member of the public”, Tasmania...
After days of uncertainty and negotiations, the funeral arrangements for Zambia’s former president have been finalised. Edgar Lungu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died 11 days ago in South Africa where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. According to his family, he had left instructions that his political rival and current...
Mike Wendling BBC News Reporting fromMinneapolis Yvette Hoffman / Facebook Yvette and John Hoffman A survivor of Saturday’s deadly attacks on two Minnesota lawmakers says she and her husband are both “incredibly lucky to be alive” after they were hit by 17 bullets. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were gunned down at...
Getty Images US President Donald Trump may have called tariffs his favourite word in the dictionary. But when it comes to obsessions, business investment has got to be close. As of last month, he said more than $12 trillion (£8.8tn) had been “practically committed” on his watch. “Nobody’s ever seen numbers like we have,” he...
“Stuck”. That is the word most people who have spoken to the BBC use to describe life in Iran right now. After three days of Israeli attacks, “everyone is trying to escape” Tehran “one way or another,” one resident told BBC News Persian. On Sunday, long queues formed at petrol stations across the city. Many...
The manhunt for a suspect in deadly attacks on Minnesota lawmakers continued into its second day on Sunday, as police extended the search over state lines to nearby South Dakota. Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home early Saturday morning . Another lawmaker, state Senator John...
Renewed Iranian missile attacks on Israel have killed at least ten people overnight. More than a hundred others were injured and several people are missing. Iran’s foreign minister has said that strikes on Israel would end once it halts its military campaign. In Iran, state media has made no mention of casualties from Israeli attacks,...
Fardowsa Hanshi BBC News, Mogadishu Anthony Irungu / BBC Fathi Mohamed Abdi (L) and Saadia Ahmed Omar (R) have overseen more than 30 multimillion-dollar projects Construction is booming in Somalia’s capital city and as Mogadishu literally rises from the ashes of its violent past it is also giving unexpected opportunities to women like Fathi Mohamed...
Tom Bennett BBC News Reporting fromRishon LeZion, central Israel Anadolu via Getty Images Two people were killed when a missile hit Rishon LeZion early on Saturday As sirens rang out across Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning, Ifat Benhaim and her family ran into their basement. “We closed the door, and suddenly there...
An Italian museum has called on patrons to “respect art” after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei, in Verona, shows a man and woman taking pictures of each other while pretending to sit on the so-called “Van Gogh” chair. The man then...
The homes of two Minnesota state lawmakers have been targeted in shootings early on Saturday morning, CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner, reported. They were the homes of State Senator John Hoffman and Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, both from the Democratic-Farmer-Labour (DFL) Party, in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, neighbouring cities near Minneapolis....
There has been a night of intense fighting between Israel and Iran, with the two sides trading fire and explosions heard in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Tehran. Ballistic missiles hit parts of Israel, with at least two people killed and dozens injured, according to Israeli emergency services. Iran launched its attack in retaliation for Israeli...
Reuters Friday night saw Israel and Iran exchange a barrage of air strikes For now the fighting between Israel and Iran seems restricted to the two nations. At the United Nations and elsewhere there have been widespread calls for restraint. But what if they fall on deaf ears? What if the fighting escalates and expands?...
Bethany Bell & Hugh Schofield In Graz and Paris Matej Povse/Getty Images The attacks within two hours of each other in Graz and Nogent have left two countries in shock Two shocking attacks within two hours of each other, in France and Austria, have left parents and governments reeling and at a loss how to...