Rob Cameron BBC News in Prague Getty Images A state of emergency allowing bears to be shot has been extended across much of Slovakia (file pic) The Slovak cabinet has approved a plan to shoot around a quarter of the country’s brown bears, after a man was mauled to death while walking in a forest...
BBC Paramedic Munther Abed survived the attack that killed 15 emergency workers by diving to the floor in the back of his ambulance “I’m the only survivor who saw what happened to my colleagues,” Munther Abed says, scrolling through pictures of his fellow paramedics on his phone. He survived the Israeli attack that killed 15...
An 84-year-old man has died more than a month after being attacked by an XL bully dog. He suffered serious injuries when he was attacked while walking home in Warrington on 24 February, Cheshire Police said. The force said he died in hospital on Sunday and his relatives were being supported by specialist officers. Sean...
From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service — and the nation’s largest union employer — against privatization and DOGE attack. “Whose Postal Service?” workers chanted in New York: “The people’s Postal Service.” “U.S. Mail Is Not for...
A British man has been praised for tackling a suspected knifeman to the ground in central Amsterdam. The tourist, who does not wish to be named, restrained the suspect after five people were stabbed near the Dutch capital’s Dam Square on Thursday. Video of the incident shows the Briton, wearing jeans and a black hoodie,...
Four people have been killed and another 19 injured in a mass Russian drone attack on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional head has said. Serhiy Lysak said a restaurant complex and several residential buildings were ablaze after the attack late on Friday. He said that “the enemy sent more than 20 drones”...
The head of the Prevent counter-terrorism scheme, Michael Stewart, has left his role. It follows a damning review in February that found the scheme “prematurely” closed its case on Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana three years before he went on to murder three children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three...
I was heading to the venue as usual on a fight night, meeting my team in reception and getting ready to go to the venue. Suddenly, I got hit with a can of paint and when I looked up there was a guy running back to his car. You could call it a hit and...
Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan: WBO welterweight champion on Sandy Ryan paint attack before first fight
The incident took me by surprise but I was in fight mode and it didn’t happen to me, so I wasn’t flustered. If someone had thrown paint on me I would have slapped paint on the ass of my fight shorts and got on with it. I was concerned that she was going to pull...
Reuters Three weeks ago, Palestinian film-maker Hamdan Ballal stood in front of the world’s cameras in Hollywood, picking up an Oscar for best documentary film. The cameras were watching him again on Tuesday, a hand to his bruised face, as he walked awkwardly away in bloodstained clothes after almost 24 hours in Israeli detention. The...
Sebastian Usher Middle East correspondent Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Hamdan Ballal poses with Rachel Szor after they won Best Documentary Feature Film for No Other Land at the Oscars A Palestinian Oscar winner has been attacked by Israeli settlers, activists who witnessed the event say, before being detained by the Israeli military. Hamdan...
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...
Daniel De Simone Investigations correspondent Family handout/PA Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack in 1993 Reports suggest that one of Stephen Lawrence’s murderers now accepts being involved in attacking the black teenager, the Parole Board has said. David Norris was jailed for life in 2012 after he had denied being part of the...
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are waging a multi-front war on nutrition benefits for children, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture moving this week to end programs that provided over $1 billion in funding for schools and charity organizations to buy food from local farmers as GOP lawmakers simultaneously take aim at school...