Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, at the White House Getty Images Donald Trump’s week began with an on-air expletive as he lost his cool over his mounting frustrations with Iran and Israel’s shaky ceasefire. It ended with a beaming US president holding court at the White House – not once, but twice – as he...
Actor Brad Pitt’s home in Los Angeles has been ransacked by a trio of thieves. Three suspects broke into the home in the Los Feliz late on Wednesday through a front window and “ransacked the location,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police did not confirm the home belonged to the Oscar-winning actor, but...
Relegated Luton Town will open the League One season against promoted AFC Wimbledon, while Cardiff City will host Peterborough United a day later. The Hatters, who dropped into the third tier after back-to-back relegations, host League Two play-off final winners AFC Wimbledon on Friday, 1 August (20:00 BST). Plymouth, who were also relegated from the...
Plymouth will begin their return to League One with the visit of Barnsley to Home Park on Saturday, 2 August. The game will be the first for new head coach Tom Cleverley since taking over earlier this month after Miron Muslic left the club. The Pilgrims will be reunited with former manager Steven Schumacher –...
Two bears escaped their enclosure, found the honey store and after a feast, returned home Read full article at source...
A controversial South African politician central to a row over race relations in the country has been denied entry to the UK. The Home Office said Julius Malema had been deemed “non-conducive to the public good” and that it was “undesirable” to grant him entry. In a letter published by local media outlet News 24,...
BBC Martina Navratilova, left, tells Amol Rajan, right, that she feels the US has become “totalitarian” Fifty years ago, Martina Navratilova left everything she knew in communist Czechoslovakia to start a new life in the US. Then an 18-year-old high school pupil, she was one of the Cold War’s most high-profile defectors – and she...
Azadeh Moshiri and Fiona Nimoni BBC Pakistan correspondent Social media A picture of a Tehran resident’s home posted on social media Many Iranians have reacted with fear and dismay at Donald Trump’s instruction to “immediately evacuate Tehran”. The capital’s almost 10 million residents have now been left to decide whether to shelter in their homes...
Ticket prices were lower in the WTA week, which will not yet be able to raise anything like the revenue of the long-established men’s event. Over 66,000 tickets were sold for the women’s tournament with the final three days sold out completely. The LTA says this makes it one of the highest attendances for a...
GCHQ GCHQ works alongside MI5 and MI6 to protect the country from security threats A GCHQ intern endangered national security, risked exposing 17 colleagues, and “threw away” thousands of hours of work when he took top secret data home, a court has heard. Hasaan Arshad, 25, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Computer Misuse...
A woman obsessed with K-pop group BTS has been caught trying to break into band member Jungkook’s home just hours after he completed military service. The Chinese woman in her 30s was seen punching random numbers on a combination lock outside Jungkook’s apartment in Seoul at about 23:20 local time (14:00 GMT) on Wednesday, police...
Reuters Police officers walk towards the flat of the 21-year-old’s suspect Abandoned plans for a bomb attack have been found at the home of the suspected gunman in a school shooting in Austria, police have said. Police in the city of Graz also found a non-functional pipe bomb, and a “farewell” letter and video during...
Arsenal will stage all 11 of their Women’s Super League home matches at Emirates Stadium in the 2025-26 season. The Gunners made the Emirates their main home last season, hosting nine WSL games there with an average attendance of 34,110. Arsenal, who became European champions in Lisbon last month, will start the defence of their...
James Melley and Alison Holt BBC News, Social Affairs Family handout Alice’s family say she had a big personality and a passion for art WARNING: This article contains upsetting details and reference to suicide There didn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary when Jane Figueiredo spoke to her daughter that night on the...
Joel Gunter Reporting from Bucha, Ukraine BBC Tatyana Popvytch’s son was taken to Russian. “He is so vulnerable,” she said. “I worry that he will lose his sanity there.” Tatyana Popovytch had contacted every agency she could think of. She had walked every step her son Vladislav could have taken after the Russians opened fire...