Kasra Naji Special Correspondent, BBC Persian BBC After spending nearly two weeks in a secret bunker somewhere in Iran during his country’s war with Israel, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, might want to use the opportunity of the ceasefire to venture out. He is believed to be holed up, incommunicado, for the fear...
Jo Floto Middle East bureau chief Trump says Iran must make peace or face future attacks after US strikes As Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the podium in the Israeli prime minister’s office this morning, he did not at first address the Israeli people in Hebrew, to update them on the latest, dramatic development in this,...
Watch: BTS members finish South Korean military service “I missed them so much,” says Stephanie Prado, a die-hard BTS fan who has been desperately waiting for the group to reunite after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. Her love for the boy band inspired her to move from Brazil to South Korea – so it was no surprise...
On the pitch, it took less than a minute for Bellamy to demonstrate how he had transformed Wales. Within seconds of kick-off in his opening game, last September’s Nations League match at home to Turkey, it was abundantly clear that things were going to be different. Players were taking up new positions and changing them...
Dawn Limbu BBC News, West of England Getty Images Glastonbury Festival has become a world famous event Glastonbury Festival has evolved significantly from its humble beginnings in 1970. Back then, tickets cost £1 and included camping and a free pint of milk from the farm. More than 50 years later, Glastonbury Festival has become a...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House A chainsaw, two hats and Lil X: Musk’s eventful time at Doge Elon Musk’s time in the Trump administration is coming to an end after a tempestuous 129 days in which the world’s richest man took an axe to government spending – stirring ample controversy along the way....
Kevin Hay BBC News, South West BBC Stephen Keighley swapped sharp suits for “tatty clothes” after walking away from the hustle and bustle of city life Flashy cars, a prestige job and plenty of money – high-flying estate Stephen Keighley had it all. Underneath, he knew “something was badly wrong”. “One morning I was driving...
As it turned out, Tottenham could not keep Conte happy. He left by mutual consent in March 2023 after calling his players “selfish” and criticising the culture of the club. They finished eighth, and lost in the Champions League last 16 to Milan. There were big changes the following summer as in came Celtic manager...
Researchers at the University of Exeter were chosen to help with a new film and book. Read full article at source...
I see bowlers in the domestic game who have the raw materials to be international players. Sonny Baker and John Turner are two of them, both of Hampshire (although Turner has been on loan at Lancashire), and have been identified by England despite having almost no first-class cricket behind them. Baker, Turner and others who...
Phil Leake, Alison Benjamin, Daniel Wainwright and Jess Carr Data journalism team Reuters While the government of Canada may not have changed hands, the federal election results are anything but business as usual. Party leaders lost their own seats, the New Democratic Party (NDP) now faces the possibility of life on the sidelines and the...
One hundred days? In some ways, it feels as though we are 100 years away from the Joe Biden presidency. In others, it feels as though the new administration and Congress have barely gotten started. And for some, it feels as though they haven’t changed a bit. Donald Trump took the oath of office exactly...
North Devon Council The council said it is writing to those affected to advise of the change of polling station Residents of a Devon village have been advised of a change of polling station ahead of the local elections on Thursday. Due to “unforeseen circumstances”, voters who were due to attend the polling station at...
In nearly 25 years in daily journalism, I have never known another issue quite like it. The arguments over sex and gender, trans and women’s rights have a passion, an anger and often a toxicity on both sides greater in their intensity than those over the Iraq war two decades ago, or Brexit in more...
David Willey, who spent decades reporting from Rome for the BBC, reflects on the transformation of the Vatican under Francis – the eighth Pope of our former correspondent’s lifetime. I have suddenly realised with something of shock that I am already not only four years older than the late Pope Francis, but that my own...