Australian Jay Vine won the Tour Down Under - despite being knocked off his bike in a crash caused by a kangaroo.Britain's Matthew Brennan took the fifth and final stage of the race in Australia, on a day dominated by drama in the peloton.The kangaroo ran across the road with under 100km of the race to go and launched itself into the peloton, knocking several riders to the ground before tumbling into more who were trying to avoid…
Polls in Myanmar have closed after a third and final stage of voting in what are widely viewed as sham elections.Many popular parties are banned from standing and voting has not been possible in large areas of the country because of a five-year-long civil war.The dominant party backed by the ruling military junta is expected to win a landslide victory.The current regime has rejected international criticism of the election, maintaining that it is free and fair.Around one-fifth of…
Family handoutAlex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis on SaturdayA man who was shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis has been identified by his family as 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti.He has been described as an avid outdoorsman who loved mountain biking and is understood to have joined protests after Renee Good, also 37, was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in her car earlier this month.Conflicting accounts have emerged about the moments…
Yasmin MalikandSrosh Khan,BBC NewsbeatBBC/Sarah Louise BennettSinger Troye Sivan hit out at a cosmetic doctor who gave him "unsolicited medical advice" on InstagramA cosmetic doctor who faced a backlash over a video picking apart pop star Troye Sivan's appearance says he "feels terrible" for upsetting the singer - but will continue to post.London-based Dr Zayn Khalid Majeed posted a two-minute clip drawing attention to the 30-year-old's "problem" areas following an appearance at a recent event in Australia.Fans criticised the…
Getty ImagesTully spent much of his journalist career covering IndiaThe broadcaster and journalist Sir Mark Tully - for many years known as the BBC's "voice of India" - has died at the age of 90.For decades, the rich, warm tones of Mark Tully were familiar to BBC audiences in Britain and around the world - a much-admired foreign correspondent and respected reporter and commentator on India. He covered war, famine, riots and assassinations, the Bhopal gas tragedy and…
American climber Alex Honnold has successfully scaled a Taiwan skyscraper without a rope, harness or safety equipment. The building, named Taipei 101 for the number of its floors, stands at 508m (1,667ft) of steel, glass and concrete and is designed to resemble a stick of bamboo.Honnold is renowned for being the first person to climb El Capitan, the vertical granite cliff in California's Yosemite national park - also without ropes or safety gear. The climb was originally set…
Crowds gathered in freezing temperatures in Minneapolis, near the scene where a man was shot dead during an altercation with federal agents on Saturday.People who gathered to lay flowers and light candles chanted Alex Pretti's name, and there were also angry scenes as protesters voiced their anger.The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed less than three weeks after Renee Good was shot dead by an immigration agent in the city.The BBC's Tom Bateman is in Minneapolis. Source link
Aoife Walsh,WashingtonandOlivia IrelandWatch: Video shows moments around fatal shooting in MinneapolisFederal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, the second person to be fatally shot in the city during the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown this month.Local officials identified the man as 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a US citizen who lived in Minneapolis and worked as a nurse. Videos have emerged showing a scuffle between Border Patrol agents and the man in the lead up to…
EPA/ShutterstockThe Republic Day parade is a display of India's culture, achievements and military mightIndia will mark its 77th Republic Day on 26 January - the day when the country adopted its constitution and formally became a republic, breaking from its colonial past.The annual grand parade will take place along Delhi's iconic central boulevard, with military tanks rolling past and fighter jets roaring overhead as thousands watch. The parade is a spectacle in itself, but attention is also focused…
2026 has brought a huge range of important news stories from Venezuela and Greenland to Minneapolis and Washington DC. The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins has been looking at how Americans feel about what's been happening and about their president.Produced by Katerina Karelli. Graphics by Jacqueline Galvin. Filmed by Meiying Wu and Alex Foster. Source link
Allan LittleSenior correspondentBBCI had been asked to give a key-note speech at a conference at Columbia University's Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre months earlier and you could still feel how wounded the city felt. You could read it in the faces of New Yorkers you spoke to.In my speech I made a few opening remarks about what the United States had meant to…
A 37-year-old Minneapolis man, who is believed to be a US citizen, has been killed by a federal agent.Greg Bovino, Border Patrol commander said that officers tried to disarm an individual who "violently resisted".Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he spoke to the White House after "another horrific shooting by federal agents".More on this story. Source link