On Monday evening, Donald Trump spoke to BBC News in an exclusive telephone interview, answering questions on Vladimir Putin, Nato, and his reflections on the 2024 attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania. The BBC’s Chief North America Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue says Trump was in a reflective mood, even sounding vulnerable when discussing the assassination...
Discussions surrounding England’s inability to play spin are beginning to sound like a broken record. Without a doubt, however, it is their most pressing concern. In 2022, England averaged 42.3 against spin in T20s, losing 25 wickets. The following year, they lost 46 wickets at an average of 18, and so far in 2025 they...
Curtis Lancaster BBC News, South Getty Images The Department for Education has 14 days to respond to the letter Two fathers have announced they will seek a judicial review of government guidance as part of a campaign to get smartphones banned in schools. Will Orr-Ewing from Oxford and Pete Montgomery, who lives near Lancaster, have...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Critics of President Donald Trump’s announcement of a planned Ultimate Fighting Championship event on White House grounds to celebrate the United States Semiquincentennial next year took to social media Friday to call the proposal...
A petition signed by nearly 900 residents calling for the preservation of an ambulance station in Devon will be presented to the board of an ambulance trust. The Totnes Road station in Paignton houses four emergency ambulances and shares its premises with St John Ambulance, said campaigners. However, the building’s lease is set to expire...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court has suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who has come under mounting pressure to resign over her leaked phone conversation with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen. The clip, in which Paetongtarn called him “uncle” and criticised a Thai military commander, sparked public anger and a petition for her dismissal, which the court is...
Reuters Thousands of protestors have gathered in the Thai capital Bangkok, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra after a phone call she had with the former Cambodian leader Hun Sen was leaked. In the call, she addressed Hun Sen as “uncle” and said a Thai military commander handling a recent border dispute...
In Test cricket, umpire’s call can be used to decide an outcome as part of the wider Decision Review System (DRS). Umpire’s call refers to the original decision made by an on-field official and is used in scenarios where no conclusive outcome is reached by technology. One example would be a potential leg before wicket...
It’s hard to believe that there would be a light-hearted moment at a NATO summit, but, as with all things Trump, this one is turning out to be extraordinary in all regards. Actually, on all fronts, the Europeans are all acting a little…weird. For instance. Far from Brussels and the NATO big-wig get-together, a member...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Mark Allan / BBC Rod Stewart is the first artist to headline Glastonbury and play the Sunday afternoon “legend” slot “Did you know I can run 100 meters in 19 seconds?” Rod Stewart, Sir Rod Stewart, is boasting about his physical prowess. And why not? At the age of 80, he’s...
What does it say that a professor at Georgetown University–an Episcopalian, no less–is calling for Iran to strike US bases in the Middle East? Nothing good. And he is not alone. Other professors at American universities have expressed similar or worse sentiments. At first, it would seem an odd flex until you understand that it...
Peter Walker BBC News, Essex PA Media John Palmer was convicted at the Old Bailey in 2001 of a timeshare fraud that had about 16,000 victims Detectives have renewed their appeal for information 10 years after the murder of notorious and once wealthy criminal John “Goldfinger” Palmer. The 65-year-old was shot six times in the...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Over the objections of critics who say a landmark cryptocurrency bill lacks adequate consumer and financial system protections, among other concerns, several Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to pass the legislation that would establish a regulatory...
Scott Bingham BBC News, South West BBC The mine near Plymouth is designated as a strategic project under the EU’s critical mineral strategy A mining company looking to extract one of the world’s largest deposits of the critical mineral tungsten has said it has taken another step to getting back into production. Tungsten West said...
Divya Talwar & Tammi Walker BBC Tassie Weaver says she was treated like “a hysterical woman” by a midwife When Tassie Weaver went into labour at full term, she thought she was hours away from holding her first child. But, by the time she was giving birth, she knew her son had died. Doctors had...