A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering his one-month-old son. Tony Bartlett, 38, is accused of killing Atticus Bartlett in Chard, Somerset, in July 2022. Mr Bartlett, from Axminster, Devon, appeared at Bristol Crown Court on Friday. Judge Julian Lambert fixed a trial date of June 11 next year, with a trial estimate of...
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has denied his involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the country’s current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Speaking for the first time in court, Bolsonaro, who ruled the country between 2019 and 2022, said a coup was an “abominable thing” and there was “never even a possibility of...
Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice has insisted the party knows “exactly what it is doing” following a 48 hours in which its chairman Zia Yusuf resigned, before returning in a different role. On Thursday, Yusuf dramatically quit, saying in a social media post that trying to get the party elected was not “a good...
BBC Tahla Redwan, 20, of Hackney, London, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in Plymouth. Tahla Redwan, 20, of Hackney, London, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday and denied murdering Shane Sweet. The 36-year-old was found stabbed to death in...
The Kremlin has rejected claims of potential Russian involvement in alleged arson attacks at properties connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, calling them “ludicrous”. It comes after media reports that UK security officials are investigating a potential link following three incidents earlier this month. In response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday: “London...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denied he is trying to change the constitution so that he can stay on when his term ends in three years’ time. Erdogan has led Turkey for 22 years, first as prime minister from 2003 and then as its elected president since 2014. But he cannot run again unless...
Motown legend Smokey Robinson has denied allegations of sexual assault that were made by several former employees. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, four female housekeepers accused the singer-songwriter of sexual battery including rape, plus false imprisonment and a number of labour violations. In a statement to the BBC, Robinson’s lawyer Christopher Frost called the...
Barcelona defender Inigo Martinez has denied spitting at Inter Milan’s Francesco Acerbi during the Champions League semi-final defeat. The alleged incident occurred when defender Acerbi ran past Martinez while celebrating Hakan Calhanoglu’s penalty to put Inter 2-0 ahead shortly before half-time in the second leg at the San Siro on Tuesday. “He celebrated in my...
Tesla has denied reports that it has contacted recruitment firms to launch a search for a replacement for Elon Musk as chief executive. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the electric car firm’s board began looking for a successor to Mr Musk last month. It said this was because of frustration around Mr...
Constance Marten has denied carrying her baby in a supermarket bag while on the run and said she considered handing the newborn to authorities, a court has heard. Asked if her baby, Victoria, had been carried in a red bag for life at any point, Marten said “absolutely not” and added: “No-one is going to...
Laurence Fox has denied sharing an intimate image of TV star Narinder Kaur without her consent on social media. The actor-turned-politician is alleged to have shared the ‘upskirting’ image of Kaur, a broadcaster who appears on Good Morning Britain and GB News, on X in April 2024. Fox, 46, of Peldon in Essex, appeared at...
Kemi Badenoch has rejected claims of a rift with shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick over whether the party should form a pact with Reform UK. The Conservative leader has always ruled out such a deal, arguing that Nigel Farage’s party is seeking to destroy the Tories. In a leaked recording obtained by Sky News, Jenrick...
Yolande Knell BBC Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem Reuters Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 51,200 Palestinians have been killed At al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Alam Hirzallah resigns himself to a grim task: registering the deaths of the wife and two children of his grieving cousin. His family brought the bodies here on an...
“I will continue to fight every day for Mahmoud to come home to us,” Noor Abdalla said, shortly after giving birth. Former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, who was abducted by immigration officials for his activism against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was barred from attending the birth of his firstborn child on Monday after Immigration...
I would not be surprised to see a denial of this report, probably before I’m done writing about it. NPR is reporting that, according to an anonymous US official, the White House is now looking for a new Secretary of Defense to replace Pete Hegseth. The White House has begun the process of looking for...