Kirk England Environment and tourism correspondent, BBC South West BBC The South West has experienced droughts in recent years, including in 2022 As the South West experiences its second official heat-alert in two weeks, “the evidence for climate change has never been clearer”, an expert has said ahead of a week-long event. The Exeter Climate...
AFP/Getty At his 1,200-person cleaning business in Maryland, chief executive Victor Moran carefully screens new recruits to make sure they are authorised to work in the US. Even so, President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants is starting to chip away at his workforce. About 15 people have left his company, Total Quality, since Trump won...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News EPA Colombians have taken part in marches in support of Uribe after he was shot Doctors treating Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay have warned that he is in an “extremely critical condition” after being shot in the head 10 days ago. Uribe underwent emergency surgery on Monday to stem a...
It’s hard to exaggerate the sheer audacity – or ingenuity – that went into Ukraine’s countrywide assault on Russia’s air force. We cannot possibly verify Ukrainian claims that the attacks resulted in $7bn (£5.2bn) of damage, but it’s clear that “Operation Spider’s Web” was, at the very least, a spectacular propaganda coup. Ukrainians are already...
Getty Images Dr Alaa al-Najjar (2nd L) at her husband’s bedside in Nasser hospital The husband of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza whose children were killed in an Israeli strike on Friday remains in critical condition, according to the hospital treating him. Hamdi al-Najjar’s “life remains in danger”, Dr Milena Angelova-Chee, a Bulgarian doctor working...
Roughly 500,000 Palestinians are experiencing “catastrophic” hunger levels, the latest food insecurity report finds. The Gaza Strip is at a “critical risk” of famine, with the entire population projected to face crisis levels of hunger as a result of Israel’s total humanitarian aid blockade, UN-backed food researchers have found in their latest assessment. As of...
A UN-backed assessment has said that Gaza’s population of around 2.1 million Palestinians is at “critical risk” of famine and faces “extreme levels of food insecurity” as an Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid continues. The latest report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said there had been a “major deterioration” since October 2024,...
First things first What is critical thinking… Some writers and philosophers have approach defining it broad strokes: Robert Ennis, who spent six decades writing about the topic, claimed that critical thinking is simply “reasonable reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do.” (1991, p. 8). Similarly, Sharon Bailin and her colleagues...
Both the US and Ukraine have said they are broadly ready to sign a deal which would give American firms access to Ukraine’s minerals. “We are ready to sign this afternoon if they are,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday, adding that Ukraine “decided to make last minute changes” to the agreement. Ukraine’s...