Google Police said there were two men and a woman reported in the area at the time of the assault. Three witnesses to an attack on a teenage girl on a Devon walking trail are being urged to come forward. Devon and Cornwall Police said they received reports of a man trying to pull the...
A seventh person has been charged with murder in connection with an acid attack. Danny Cahalane suffered a serious assault involving acid at his home on Lipson Road, Plymouth, in February and died in hospital on 3 May. The 38-year-old was described by his family as an “outstanding father and son”. Jude Hill, 43, of...
A man who stabbed his wife to death in front of their infant son after tracking her to a refuge has been found guilty of murder. Habibur Masum stabbed Kulsuma Akter more than 25 times after confronting her in Bradford city centre in April 2024. The baby was unharmed. Bradford Crown Court heard Ms Akter,...
A young Syrian national has been charged by German authorities with supporting a foreign terror group over a foiled plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last August. Mohamed A, who is described as a juvenile and still at liberty, is accused of following the ideology of jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and...
Three Palestinians have been shot dead after dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities say. Video footage from Kafr Malik, near Ramallah, on Wednesday night showed a car and a home on fire and Palestinians running away as gunfire is heard. The Israeli military said forces deployed...
She’s not the Mayor or Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, but she is the Deputy Mayor of a “city” that is basically in the middle of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Cudahy is, for all intents and purposes, other than the nominal governmental unit, Los Angeles. The dead center of Cudahy is 6 miles, as...
“Another appalling attack” on a hospital in Sudan has seen more than 40 people killed, many of them children and medics, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. “We cannot say this louder,” wrote Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X on Tuesday, “attacks on health must stop everywhere!” Al-Mujlad Hospital was struck on...
Brian Farmer BBC News, Bedfordshire Reporting fromLuton Crown Court Bedfordshire Police Humar and Hannan Mahmood left their victim with a stab wound to the chest Two robbers have been jailed after attacking an off-duty police officer with a machete who confronted them while out shopping. Brothers Hannan Mahmood, 20, and Humar Mahmood, 19, attacked PC...
At least four people have been killed in an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the interior minister says. In a post on social media, Ihor Klymenko says residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure were hit. “An entire section of a residential high-rise building was destroyed” in the worst-hit Shevchenkivskyi district,...
A bride was shot dead on her wedding night in a village near the south-east French city of Avignon after masked gunmen opened fire, local officials say. One suspected attacker was also killed in an apparent exchange of fire, and the groom and a child of 13 were seriously wounded during the incident in the...
It took months of planning and included over 125 planes, a submarine and 14 “bunker buster” bombs. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas describes how the US mission “Operation Midnight Hammer” took place and analyses new satellite imagery that reveals the damage at Iran’s nuclear sites Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo. Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut...
Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran, but has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country, the BBC’s US partner CBS reports. The US president held off on initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme, a senior intelligence source told CBS. Trump is reportedly considering a...
EPA Retailer Co-op is to offer its members £10 off a minimum shop of £40 following disruption caused by a recent cyber attack. The grocery chain said it had not yet completely recovered from being targeted by hackers last month, which resulted in a significant amount of customer data being stolen. Although the offer appears...
Matt Murphy, Thomas Spencer & Alex Murray BBC Verify Getty Images At least 30 US military planes have been moved from bases in America to Europe over the past three days, flight tracking data reviewed by BBC Verify has shown. The planes in question are all US military tanker aircraft used to re-fuel fighter jets...
It has only been less than a month since two Israeli embassy staffers were murdered in Washignton, DC by a guy shouting “Free Palestine.” It has been just over two weeks since another deranged freak attacked a group of Jewish people in Boulder, Colorado and tried to set them on fire. He was shouting about...