Emma Hallett BBC News, Glastonbury Festival BBC Jonathan Rothery, Alison Howe, Emily Eavis, Zoe Ball and Lorna Clarke (L-R) are all instrumental in bringing the festival experience into people’s homes More than 90 hours of live streamed performances with coverage across TV, radio, iPlayer, online and social media… all from a dairy farm in Somerset....
New soldiers should be offered a £10,000 bonus to rapidly boost troop numbers to deal with an increasingly unpredictable world, the Lib Dems have said. The government should also distribute pamphlets to make sure every British home is “war-ready” and able to deal with blackouts and chaos caused by the outbreak of conflict or cyber-attacks,...
Mark: Great appointment after being relegated. Shows ambition to go straight back up with the new early signings. Need a top striker, with [Ryan] Hardie we will be flying. Leonardo: Rooney 2.0? Wish we had gone for an older, wiser, experienced manager to steady the good ship Argyle after recent seasons of turmoil and upheaval,...
The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has suggested “Muslim countries” should give up some of their land to create a future Palestinian state. In an interview with the BBC, Huckabee said “Muslim countries have 644 times the amount of land that are controlled by Israel”. “So maybe, if there is such a desire for...
Since 2017 our movement has faced repression of a scale and intensity previously unseen. The main distinctive feature of the situation is the massive use of torture by the Federal Security Service (FSB). Previously, cases of beatings and torture of anarchists in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were rather isolated exceptions. We heard that radical Islamists...
Mark Rutte is determined to give Donald Trump a win at the forthcoming Nato summit. The alliance’s secretary general wants to avoid the scenes of 2016 when, while in his first term, the US president berated European allies for not spending enough on defence and taking advantage of the American taxpayer. Trump views relationships, even...
Makuochi Okafor BBC Africa health correspondent, Lagos Getty Images At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of becoming just another statistic in Nigeria, where a woman dies giving birth every seven minutes, on average. Going into labour during a doctors’ strike meant that, despite being in hospital, there was no expert help...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates says that most of his $200bn (£150bn) fortune will be spent on improving health and education services in Africa over the next 20 years. The 69-year-old said that “by unleashing human potential through health and education, every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity”. Speaking in Ethiopia’s capital...
Cameron Weldon & George Thorpe BBC News, Devon BBC The Red Arrows are set to feature during this year’s English Riviera Airshow Pilots hope they can inspire future generations to take to the skies as they soar above the crowds of the English Riviera Airshow. The 2025 edition of the event which takes over the...
US President Donald Trump has appeared to set a two-week deadline for Vladimir Putin, threatening a different response if the Russian counterpart was still stringing him along. As the Kremlin escalated its attacks on Ukraine, Trump was asked in the Oval Office on Wednesday if he thought Putin wanted to end the war. “I can’t...
Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent PA Media King Charles met Canadian PM Mark Carney soon after he arrived in Ottawa King Charles III will deliver a significant speech in Canada’s parliament later on Tuesday that is expected to offer his support in the country’s dispute with US President Donald Trump. The King and Queen Camilla received...
Rachel Corsie, Scotland captain Inevitably there has to be goals. While it’s hard to see any other outcome beyond Celtic winning against Aberdeen, especially when in Glasgow, there is always a tiny bit of optimism when it comes to fandom! That said, making it through extra-time and enjoying a couple of goals is the best...
Good enough? Not for me, and likely not for Benjamin Netanyahu. But neither of our votes count much these days, it seems. The same day that Donald Trump declared the “Neocon era” was over, the Iranians decided to make him an offer that Trump might not refuse. The mullahs’ representatives presented Steven Witkoff with a...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he intends to give away 99% of his vast fortune over the next 20 years. Gates said he would accelerate his giving via his foundation, with plans to end its operations in 2045. “People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that...
There’s another book coming out this summer which sheds some light on Joe Biden’s mental state as he campaigned for a 2nd term in 2024. It’s titled “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America” and was co-written by three journalists from three different news outlets. Yesterday the NY Times published...