MPs vote to back a bill legalising assisted dying in England and Wales. Read full article at source...
Donald Trump’s call for Iran to surrender in its escalating conflict with Israel dominates Wednesday’s papers. The Financial Times reports that Trump’s patience is “wearing thin” as he leaves the door open for the US to join the conflict. The i focuses on the US president’s warning to Iran’s supreme leader, saying “we are not...
Soutik Biswas & Ishleen Kaur BBC Eye Investigations BBC Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead in a hail of bullets in 2022 It was a killing that shocked India: Punjabi hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead through the windscreen of his car by hired gunmen. Within hours, a Punjabi gangster named Goldy Brar had...
Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent NASA/Johns Hopkins The heart-shape on Pluto was captured by a spacecraft that will be turned off mid-mission if Nasa cuts are approved The row between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over a major spending bill has exacerbated uncertainty over the future of Nasa’s budget, which is facing deep cuts. The space...
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Pundole Art Gallery The paintings were locked away in bank vaults since 2008 Nearly two dozen paintings by one of the world’s most celebrated modern artists – once part of a record-breaking art deal – are set to hit the auction block for the first time next week. On 12...
At least two people have been killed and another 17 injured in the biggest Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, the mayor says. Ihor Terekhov says that overnight Russia launched 48 drones, as well as two missiles and four gliding bombs. “We have a lot of damage,” he says, adding that three...
Thames Water has been fined £122.7m for breaching of rules relating to its wastewater operations and dividends payments. It is the biggest ever penalty issued by the water regulator Ofwat. The regulator said the fines followed its “biggest and most complex investigation” and confirmed it would be paid paid by the company and its investors,...
Russia and Ukraine were set to take part in a major prisoner swap on Friday, described as the biggest since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. Officials from both countries agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, during otherwise fruitless peace negotiations in Istanbul a week ago. US President Donald Trump...
CNN has a story up today which summarizes some of the contents of the newly released book by Tapper and Thompson. You’ve probably heard some of it before but it really is striking seeing all of it in one place. There was just so much evidence that Biden wasn’t fit for office, much less re-election....
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Reuters Residents survey the damage to their homes after a Russian drone strike on Saturday night on suburbs outside of Kyiv Ukraine says Russia has launched its biggest drone attack since the full-scale invasion began, targeting several regions including Kyiv, where one woman died. Russia had launched 273 drones by...
An internal document bolsters warnings that the hunt for fraud is a pretext for slashing Social Security benefits. An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000 — a rate of 0.0018%....
The Lisbon derby is one of the fiercest in Europe and before the game fans of the away team will march the couple of miles through the city to the opposition ground. It is a rivalry that dates back more than a century, with the sides who would become officially known as Sporting Clube de...
And, Professor Dame Jenny Harries joins Newscast as she steps down as head of the UKHSA Read full article at source...
McDonald’s has suffered its biggest drop in US sales since the height of Covid, a fall that it said was driven by wider concerns about the US economy. The world’s largest burger chain’s revenue at US stores open at least a year sank 3.6% in the first three months of 2025 compared with the same...
BBC If you say the name Donald Trump in the halls of wholesale markets and trade fairs in China, you’ll hear a faint chuckle. The US president and his 145% tariffs have not instilled fear in many Chinese traders. Instead, they have inspired an army of online Chinese nationalists to create mocking memes in a...