Nomsa Maseko in Bujumbura & Natasha Booty in London BBC News BBC President Évariste Ndayishimiye made the comments in an exclusive interview with the BBC Burundi’s president has told the BBC he has seen “credible intelligence” that Rwanda plans to attack his country. Évariste Ndayishimiye also said that Rwanda had tried to launch a coup...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London Met Police The iPad Mini was found buried one inch under the sand of the River Thames and linked to a near fatal shooting five-and-a-half years earlier A Ming vase stolen from a Swiss museum. A shooting at a comedian’s house in Woodford, east London. The robbery of a luxury...
BBC Stuart Youens Lucy Adams Education correspondent, BBC Scotland Stuart Youens says that when he became a secondary school teacher 20 years ago he loved the job. But gradually the effect of budget cuts, the reduction in classroom assistants, the increase in additional support needs, and a rise in bureaucracy took its toll. Two years...
Anna Meisel and Paul Kenyon BBC File on 4 Investigates Getty The UK ends up with about 50 million waste tyres in need of recycling every year Millions of tyres being sent from the UK to India for recycling are actually being “cooked” in makeshift furnaces causing serious health problems and huge environmental damage, the...
BBC “The world has changed” is the mantra we are hearing from the government. It is a phrase designed to explain and justify the chancellor’s argument on Wednesday in what is known as her Spring Statement. The Conservatives are branding it an “emergency Budget”, which ministers insist is nonsense, but it is certainly true it...
Mohamed Salah is known for playing there, but did you know Gary Lineker was also put out on the wing during his time at Barcelona? Let’s just say he didn’t like it – and made it known to manager Johan Cruyff… Listen to Match of the Day Top 10 on BBC Sounds or watch of...
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service BBC Engineers from Gridless create makeshift computer labs to maintain their bitcoin mines The roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble down rapids. But there’s another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush – the unmistakable...
The status of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine leads in Tuesday’s Metro, under the headline “Putin’s brutal peace offering”, as air strikes directed by the Kremlinb continue. The paper cites Ukrainian reports that the Russian military injured 74 people – among them 14 children – in strikes on homes and a hospital, on the...
A man who fell into a large sinkhole in South Korea’s capital Seoul has been found dead, according to the local fire department. The man was riding his motorbike in the Gangdong district when the road caved in at about 6.30pm local time (9.30am GMT) on Monday. Rescuers found his body underground on Tuesday morning...
Watch: President Trump says he knows ‘nothing’ about journalist in Houthi strike group chat There are few US presidential actions more sensitive, more fraught with peril, than when and where to use American military force. If such information were obtained by American adversaries in advance, it could put lives – and national foreign policy objectives...
A magician tries to uncover the secret of how his rival performs the ultimate trick. Read full article at source...
Ian Youngs Culture reporter Netflix Owen Cooper has been praised for his performance as 13-year-old Jamie One of the most talked-about TV shows of recent years, Netflix’s hard-hitting drama Adolescence, has been the hot topic of discussion this week, from the House of Commons to US talk shows to the gates of the scriptwriter’s son’s...
Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be Britain’s most valuable spy in living memory inside Russia’s intelligence agencies. Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious. He died peacefully at his home in Surrey, the...
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has returned to the club after sustaining a “suspected concussion” on international duty with Brazil. The 32-year-old was substituted late on in the 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Colombia on Friday after a nasty clash of heads with former Tottenham defender Davinson Sanchez. Alisson will now return to Merseyside for...
It seems astounding that a single fire at an electricity source shut down one of the world’s busiest airports. The disruption to the journeys of thousands of passengers and millions of tonnes of trade goods on Friday has prompted a series of questions over the resilience of the UK’s major infrastructure. Disaster recovery plans keep...