Several people are believed to have died after a small plane crashed into a residential street in San Diego on Thursday morning. No residents were seriously injured, but there was “more than one fatality” among the passengers on board, Assistant Fire Chief Dan Eddy said. Several homes were destroyed and cars caught fire after the...
Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News Noaa/Reuters Hurricane Milton, in October 2024, was one of the Atlantic’s strongest recorded storms The coming Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be busier than usual, US science agency NOAA has warned, just as cuts to American research are raising fears about the ability to track and prepare for...
On Tuesday 13 May, Israeli strikes on the European Hospital in Gaza killed 28 people and injured dozens, according to the Hamas-run civil defence agency. BBC Verify analysed footage, gathered witness testimony and spoke to munitions and legal experts to examine how one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals came under Israeli attack. Expert analysis and...
House Republicans have passed a sweeping multi-trillion dollar tax breaks package, a narrow victory for President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson after weeks of negotiations with conservative hold-outs. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed with a vote of 215 votes to 214, with two Republicans joining Democrats to oppose it and one voting present....
Peter Mwai, Matt Murphy, Jake Horton & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify BBC Donald Trump confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa during a tense exchange in the White House on Wednesday, with a series of contested claims about the killings of white farmers in South Africa. The meeting – at first warm and light-hearted – quickly changed tone...
EPA More aid lorries entered Gaza through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing on Thursday More than 90 lorry loads of humanitarian aid have been collected by UN teams inside the Gaza Strip, three days after Israel eased an 11-week-long blockade. The aid, which included flour, baby food and medical equipment, was picked up from the...
The man who organised a display of white crosses in South Africa, an image of which was shown by Donald Trump on Wednesday, has said that the US president was wrong when he described it as a “burial site”. Rob Hoatson said the crosses were put up on the roadside in KwaZulu-Natal province as a...
A top Maoist leader has been killed fighting with Indian security forces in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Nambala Keshava Rao, who is also known by several alias, including Basavaraju, was among 27 rebels killed on Wednesday, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said. One police officer was also reported to have died in the fighting....
Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Reuters Boniface Mwangi was arrested in Dar es Salaam on Monday An activist detained in Tanzania for three days has been released shortly after Kenya’s foreign ministry demanded his release. A top official in the ministry, Korir Sing’oei, said on X that Boniface Mwangi was “now back in the country”....
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images Sir Jony Ive, the hugely influential British designer responsible for the look of Apple’s most iconic and successful products, is joining OpenAI. Boss Sam Altman said he was “thrilled” to be partnering with the man he called the “greatest designer in the world”. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is...
Nike is set to raise prices on some trainers and clothing from 1 June, weeks after rival Adidas warned it would have to hike the cost of products due to US tariffs. The BBC understands Nike’s decision was taken due to a number of internal and external factors and the sportswear giant said it regularly...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Reuters Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, was separated from Mauritius along with the rest of the Chagos Islands in 1965 and now houses a US military base The government has temporarily been banned from concluding talks on the Chagos Islands deal by a last-minute injunction by a High...
André Rhoden-Paul BBC News Watch: BBC at the scene of shooting outside Jewish museum A couple who worked for the Israeli Embassy have been shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC. Police say the victims, who have been named as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were killed by a man who shouted...
Video appears to show suspect Elias Rodriguez being taken away by police and shouting ‘free Palestine’. Read full article at source...
Two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in downtown Washington DC by a man who police say shouted “free, free Palestine” after the attack. The victims, a young couple, were shot while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, DC police said, adding that the incident appears targeted. The shooting...