Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Reuters At least 11 people were killed after a suspected car ramming attack in the Canadian city of Vancouver on Saturday. The incident, which took place at the annual Lapu Lapu festival which celebrates Filipino culture, also left dozens of people injured. A 30-year-old male suspect has been taken...
BBC A “number of people have been killed” after a car was driven into a crowd in the Canadian city of Vancouver, local police have said. Vancouver Police said “multiple others” were injured during an incident at a street festival on Saturday evening. The force said the driver is in custody. It is not yet...
Russian security forces say they have detained a Ukrainian spy accused of killing a senior Russian general in a car bomb attack in Moscow’s suburbs on Friday. The FSB secret service said they had apprehended “Ukrainian special services agent Ignat Kuzi” who had “planted explosives in a Volkswagen Golf” to kill Gen Yaroslav Moskalik. Gen...
A senior Russian general has been killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow, officials have confirmed. Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK) – the main federal investigating authority in the country – confirmed Gen Yaroslav Moskalik died when a Volkswagen Golf car exploded after an improvised explosive device stuffed with pellets went off. Local media reported...
James W Kelly & Matt Graveling BBC News BBC HCS Furniture’s van had not left the carpark stack since December 2022 A family business has regained its van after it was trapped in a central London car park for nearly two and a half years. Steve Davies and Mark Lucas collected the vehicle from Rathbone...
Shehnaz Khan BBC News, West Midlands Ewan Valentine Ewan Valentine’s black Honda Civic Type-R was stolen off his drive on 28 February A man who bought a £20,000 car to replace the one he had stolen has discovered he has accidentally bought back his own stolen car. Ewan Valentine, 36, from Solihull, woke up on...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signalled the UK could lower tariffs on US car imports as she tries to broker a trade deal with the Trump administration. Reeves said she wants “to see tariff and non-tariff barriers reduced between the UK and the US”. The UK is seeking to lower trade taxes imposed by President Donald...
A man has been arrested following reports a woman was sexually assaulted in a Plymouth car park. Devon and Cornwall Police said it received a call at about 09:45 BST on Friday saying a man had approached a woman in a parked vehicle at Devil’s Point and sexually assaulted her. On Tuesday, the force said...
Police are appealing for information following a reported sexual assault in a car park in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said the incident happened at 09:45 BST on Friday 18 April at Devil’s Point car park. Police officers said they received a call stating a man in his early 20s approached a woman in a...
Jonny Humphries BBC News, Liverpool Jonny Humphries/BBC Police are investigating the crash in Liverpool Bystanders begged a dying man to “please stay with us” after he was “deliberately” struck with a car outside a party, witnesses have said. Emergency services were called to Stonyhurst Road in the Woolton area of Liverpool after the 47-year-old was...
The driver of a car being chased by police died after a crash with two other cars in south London on Friday night. Six people who were in the two other vehicles were injured, one seriously, in the incident in Wickham Road, Croydon, close to the junction with Shirley Road, shortly before 21:00 BST, the...
Former Croatia international Nikola Pokrivac has died in a car accident in his home country, the Croatian Football Federation has confirmed. The 39-year-old midfielder played for Dinamo Zagreb, AS Monaco and RB Salzburg over his career and won 15 international caps from 2008 to 2010. Pokrivac was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015 which forced...
A British woman who was among four people killed in a cable car crash near Naples has been named by Italian officials as Margaret Elaine Winn. A second Briton killed in the accident has been identified by authorities but not yet named. The mountain cable car cabin plunged to the ground after one of the...
Four people have died after a mountain cable car cabin crashed to the ground near Naples in southern Italy, emergency services say. Another person was “extremely seriously injured” in the crash at Monte Faito and was being airlifted to hospital, officials said. Several Italian media outlets report one of the cables supporting the cabin had...
Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News Reporting fromWindsor, Ontario Ali Abbas Ahmadi/BBC Ford workers Kathryn Lawton (L) and Christina Grossi are afraid the tariffs could upend their lives A Lawton has worked in Canada’s auto sector for more than a century. Their children are “fifth generation Ford workers”, Kathryn Lawton said, and she and her husband...