Andrew Harding BBC Paris correspondent Getty Images Protesters outside the court in Vannes have turned out to show their support for Le Scouarnec’s victims It was supposed to be a defining, catalytic moment for French society. Horrific, but unmissable. Unignorable. The seaside town of Vannes, in southern Brittany, had carefully prepared a special venue and...
A 37-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction after a police search in Devon and Cornwall. Devon and Cornwall Police issued an appeal on Tuesday for information to help locate the man, from West Yorkshire, and two children, who are known to each other, following concerns for their welfare. The force said the...
Mayeni Jones BBC News, Johannesburg Getty Images Illegal miners work in mines once owned by large multinationals, which abandoned them because they were no longer profitable This story contains details, including a video, that some people may find distressing. The most shocking thing for Jonathan, who had endured six gruelling months living and working underground...
Jane Douglas BBC News, South West BBC Ernesettle Community School has been running a pilot project for five years A programme helping educate pupils at a Plymouth school about child sexual abuse is “helping to stop the silence” on the issue, according to children’s charity the NSPCC. Ernesettle Community School is the first in the...
Rachel Stonehouse BBC West Investigations Emma Hallett BBC West Investigations Megan, not her real name and with her back to the camera, has been working with the police to help identify children at risk and prosecute criminals WARNING: This article contains details of a sexual nature and child sex abuse. If you have been affected...
A child has been taken to hospital after getting into difficulty in a canal, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said emergency services were called to Clapperbrook Lane East, in Exeter, at about 16:35 BST on Monday, following a “concern for welfare for a child in the canal”. The child was pulled from the...
An Illinois landlord who fatally stabbed a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy and severely wounded his mother has been sentenced to 53 years in prison. Joseph Czuba, 73, was convicted in February for murder and hate crimes for the death of Wadee Alfayoumi, and the wounding of his mother Hanan Shaheen in 2023 shortly after the start...
Aad Hoogendoorn/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen A child has damaged a painting worth millions of pounds by the American artist Mark Rothko at a museum in Rotterdam. A spokesperson for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen said it was considering the “next steps” for the treatment of Rothko’s Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8. The damage occurred...
George Thorpe BBC News, Devon BBC Stephen Sanders’ sentencing hearing was held at Exeter Crown Court A man who used paganism and chocolate to help him sexually abuse and rape children has been jailed. Stephen Sanders, 62, of Raleigh Avenue, Torquay, was sentenced to 27 years in prison and told to sign the sex offenders...
BBC Mother-of-two Fathiya Mohammed says she was mugged while fleeing to the town of Tawila The 700,000 residents of Sudan’s Zamzam camp were already among the world’s most destitute people when they were attacked by paramilitary fighters last week. Two decades of conflict in the Darfur region, which intensified after civil war broke out across...
Getty Images Dott won the World Snooker Championship in 2006 Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has appeared in court for the first time over alleged child sex offences. The 47-year-old Scot, who won the world championship in 2006, is accused of two historical charges relating to two children both aged about 10 at the...
What a find! We now know without doubt that the Teotihuacan culture, the “prehistoric heart” of what is now Mexico, was a thriving community dedicated to helping men ascend the spiritual ladder to become gods. How do we know? Archaeologists have discovered a temple where priests sacrificed children. Ancient altar found in Guatemala jungle apparently...
Dominic Hughes Global health correspondent Getty Images Escherichia coli bacteria – also known as E. coli, the bug that causes food poisoning – is one of the bacteria that is showing greater resistance to front-line antibiotics More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent Kevin Church/BBC News Researchers are using specially designed games and brain-scanning ‘hats’ to work out how children develop key skills Two-year-old Henry is completely transfixed by the iPad in front of him. Every time a smiley face appears he taps the screen – and his tap transforms the face into a...
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been charged with child sex offences. The 47-year-old Scot, who won the world title in 2006, faces historical charges relating to two children who were understood to be around 10 years old at the time. Prosecutors claim the first attack happened in the Glasgow area between 1993 and...