Henry Zeffman Chief Political Correspondent Leela Padmanabhan BBC News BBC By the time polls closed at 10pm on 4 July 2024, the Labour Party knew they were likely to return to government – even if they could not quite bring themselves to believe it. For Sir Keir Starmer, reminiscing 10 months later in an interview...
Madeline Halpert BBC News in New York court Watch: The BBC’s Nada Tawfik explains how prosecutors went after Diddy in his sex trafficking trial Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team rested their case in his sex trafficking trial on Tuesday after making arguments for only about 20 minutes. Their short presentation followed nearly seven weeks of...
Getty Images A part of a US national suicide prevention hotline that caters for LGBTQ young people says it will soon close, after the Trump administration cut its funding. The administration has accused the service of “radical gender ideology”. It says it will still fund the wider 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – of which...
Rob Flett and Adam Harcus BBC Scotland News Getty Images Options for greater autonomy were found to be too expensive or too difficult Orkney Islands Council has accepted it must remain part of the UK – after spending two years exploring opportunities for greater autonomy. Officials looked into various models for “alternative governance”. These included...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Amy Wadge and Ed Sheeran won the Grammy Award for song of the year in 2016 The US Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to revive the long-running copyright trial over his hit song Thinking Out Loud. On Monday, the court refused to hear an appeal from Structured Asset...
Carlota Ciganda finished one stroke clear of Choi Hye-jin to claim her first LPGA Tour victory in almost nine years at the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan. The Spaniard birdied the final two holes at the Blythefield Country Club to card a five-under-par 67 to end at 16 under overall, with a bogey at the...
The fresh search for Madeleine McCann has ended after investigators spent three days in areas near to where the three-year-old disappeared 18 years ago in Portugal. German investigators left the search area at about 17:15 local time before Portuguese counterparts then removed the outer cordon from the site. Madeleine disappeared while on holiday with her...
The World Bank says it is lifting a ban on loans to Uganda that it had put in place two years ago when the country passed a draconian new law against LGBTQ people. In 2023, Uganda voted in some of the world’s harshest anti-homosexual legislation meaning that anybody engaging in certain same-sex acts can be...
When Cristiano Ronaldo scored the winner in Portugal’s Nations League semi-final against Germany, he completed a rare career first. Read full article at source...
The Trump administration has moved to end Harvard’s ability to enrol international students, escalating a row with America’s oldest university. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X that the administration has revoked Harvard’s “Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law.” “Let this serve as...
Exeter’s former England forward Poppy Leitch is retiring from playing to take up a coaching role. The 27-year-old is to become the club’s first women’s Under-23s coach and will oversee young players coming into the club. Leitch became the first woman to play 100 times for Chiefs, who set up their women’s side in 2020....
Harlequins: T Green; Isgro, Beard, Waghorn, Murley; Smith, Porter; Baxter, Walker, Lamositele, J Green, Hammond, Kenningham, Evans, Dombrandt (capt). Replacements: Riley, Els, Streeter, Launchbury, Lawday, Care, Kerr, David Exeter: Hodge; Wyatt, Slade, Tua, Brown-Bampoe; Skinner, Townsend; Blose, Yeandle, Iosefa-Scott, Tuima, Jenkins (capt), Vermeulen, Capstick, Roots. Replacements: Frost, Keast, Street, Tshiunza, Moloney, Cairns, Haydon-Wood, Lilley. Yellow...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has temporarily stepped down until a sexual misconduct probe against him is concluded. Karim Khan will take leave until the end of the external investigation, which began late last year, and his deputy prosecutors will run the office in his absence, the ICC said in a...
Hamburg have earned promotion back to the Bundesliga to end a seven-year absence from the German top flight. Needing a win to confirm their return, the six-time German champions thrashed Ulm 6-1 at home on Saturday and fans engulfed the pitch at the Volksparkstadion at the final whistle to celebrate. Hamburg, who are one of...
Germany’s parliament is set to elect conservative Friedrich Merz as its new Chancellor. The 69-year old is promising to revitalize the country’s flagging economy and boost its voice on the world stage. It brings an end to Germany’s recent political limbo after the last government collapsed. But Merz takes office at a time of huge...