Abu Bakar Yasin BBC Newsbeat BBC/Hungry Bear Media Ltd/David MacCormack Aneila Afsar made history as the first contender to appear on Gladiators wearing a hijab When Aneila Afsar first appeared on Gladiators, she made history. The popular BBC One show which pits gladiators against contenders in a series of physical challenges was rebooted last year...
Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent Getty Images On Friday, South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled Yoon Suk Yeol had abused his power by declaring martial law last December, and permanently removed him from office. Before that, South Korea was not somewhere you might expect a military takeover – a peaceful and proud democracy, admired across the globe...
The Prince of Wales’ Earthshot Prize will be held in Brazil later this year, Kensington Palace has announced, in the same month the country hosts the COP30 UN climate change conference. The main awards ceremony, along with several days of events for nominees, investors and environmental leaders, will be held in Rio de Janeiro in...
Lily Jamali BBC tech correspondent, San Francisco Getty Images President Donald Trump says he is “very close” to brokering a deal to find a buyer for TikTok, which faces a US ban if its Chinese owner does not sell the app by the weekend. A bipartisan law passed by Congress last year mandates TikTok’s Chinese...
Vertigo Releasing Deba Hekmat plays Ziba, an ambitious British Iranian teen, in Sasha Nathwani’s first feature film The director of a new film set in a sweltering London over 24 hours on A-Level results day says that the city he grew up in is now “inaccessible” to many Gen Z young adults. Last Swim, Sasha...
Fergus Walsh Medical editor Camilla Horrox Global health producer BBC April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year. She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying under Canada’s increasingly liberal laws. Warning: This article contains details and descriptions...
Getty Images Donald Trump has upended global trade with his tariffs announcement Fundamentally wrong, was how Germany’s outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described the new Trump tariffs. A unilateral attack – that was the view of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. French President Emmanuel Macron called them brutal, unfounded and certain to have a “massive impact”...
Most papers on Friday morning are splitting their front pages between updates on Donald Trump’s “tariff turmoil” that’s wiped “trillions off global stock markets” and the latest in the Duke of Sussex’s charity row. Dozens of downward sloping charts on the front page of the Guardian illustrate the hit financial markets took after Trump announced...
The boss of US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly says there is no looking back from Donald Trump’s decision to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from the rest of the world. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, David Ricks described it as a watershed moment in US economic history, “I think it’s a pivot in...
David Silverberg Technology Reporter Kelsey Krakora Kelsey Krakora made a career shift into live shopping After graduating college Kelsey Krakora worked full time in a steakhouse, bartending and serving meals. She had dabbled with selling clothes online, but only part-time. But in 2021 that all changed for Cleveland-based Ms Krakora. She switched to selling clothes...
Tom Espiner & Emma Smith BBC business reporters Getty Images Cosmetics company Lush and car repair chain Kwik Fit are among firms which have warned they will raise prices due an increase in employers’ National Insurance (NI). Other firms have told the BBC they will reduce how much profit they make, freeze hiring or in...
Catherine Morrison BBC News NI BBC Fatima said her recovery “is not good” A homeless woman with lung cancer is sleeping on a makeshift bed in her friend’s living room because she says the accommodation offered by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is unsuitable for her needs. Fatima, who is from Sudan, found out...
Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou is looking more isolated than ever. The Australian directed a brief clap towards the furious travelling away fans from near the halfway line following his side’s 1-0 loss at Chelsea but, by then, it could be argued the damage had already been done. Enzo Fernandez’s second-half header was enough to...
Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa): He has grown from strength to strength and become one of the best centre-backs in English football. This is really hard to say because I am a Birmingham fan and he is a Villa player, but he has been exceptional. Murillo (Nottingham Forest): He was a monster for Nottingham Forest, an...
Denmark will not give up Greenland to the US, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said during an official visit to the Arctic Island. Responding to repeated threats from Donald Trump, Frederiksen offered closer collaboration on security but told the US president: “You can’t annex other countries.” Frederiksen stood alongside Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen...