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Lili Sheppard, Andy Bennett & Mel Everett BBC News, Glastonbury Festival Nile Rodgers: ‘All killer and no filler’ Music legend Nile Rodgers has said playing Glastonbury Festival means “everything” to him. Thousands of people watched Nile Rodgers and Chic perform hit after hit on the Pyramid Stage earlier. Rodgers has written and produced songs for...

Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment. The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the “Twitter killer”, had shocked the country and triggered debate over how suicide was discussed online. Shiraishi, then 30, lured his victims – most of...

Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Watch: Killer whales use kelp to ‘massage’ each other Orcas in the North Pacific have been seen “massaging” each other – rubbing pieces of kelp between their bodies. Using drones, researchers filmed the animals selecting and biting off the kelp, then placing the tube-shaped piece of seaweed onto the...

Brian Farmer BBC News, Buckinghamshire Reporting fromLuton Crown Court Alice Cunningham BBC News, Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Police Joanne Pearson (left) and Teohna Grant (right) died at the scene in Santa Cruz Avenue in Bletchley in December A paranoid father who stabbed two women to death on Christmas Day while high on drugs has been jailed...

NSW Police Jade Young’s mother said her daughter’s death was the result of “cumulative failures” For many, Saturdays are something to look forward to – relaxed times, enjoyed with family and friends. But Elizabeth Young “dreads” them. It’s a weekly reminder of her daughter Jade’s violent murder at Westfield Bondi Junction. “On a lovely autumn...

Opponents say the bill “threaten[s] the foundational rights of free speech,” especially targeting pro-Palestine speech. Republicans have revived an effort to pass legislation deemed the “nonprofit killer” following warnings from left-wing and civil society groups that the move would give President Donald Trump broad leeway to crush dissent and attack his political opponents. The proposal...

Prosecutors have dropped some of the charges against an Australian woman accused of killing three relatives and seriously injuring another with a toxic mushroom lunch. Erin Patterson will not face trial over allegations she also attempted to murder her husband, after those charges were withdrawn. She still faces four charges: three counts of murder and...