Warning: This article contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died. His family has given permission to use his name and image. Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering an Aboriginal schoolboy, in a case that shocked Australia. Cassius Turvey died of head injuries after a brutal assault...
Content warning: Video contains discussion of suicide. UFC star Paddy Pimblett speaks with BBC Sport’s Sam Harris about dealing with mental health issues, and his supportive friendship with now-retired fighter Molly McCann. Visit www.bbc.co.uk/actionline for more information and help with issues raised in this video. READ MORE: Aspinall upgraded to undisputed UFC champion as Jones...
Helen Bushby Culture reporter at Sheffield Documentary Festival Fish+Bear Pictures Li (left) is posed for a photograph by Hao, during his week-long course in how to attract women To say China’s women are outnumbered would be an understatement. With a staggering 30 million more men than women, one of the world’s most populous countries has...
Rules that effectively banned all sexually active gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma are being lifted in Australia. The rules, originally introduced to decrease the risk of blood donations from groups with a higher chance of HIV exposure, will begin being revoked from next month, following similar moves in the UK and...
Seven men from California have been charged in the “largest jewellery heist in US history”, involving the theft of $100m (£75m) worth of gold, gems, and luxury watches. The heist has been a mystery in California for nearly three years after a Brinks company truck transporting the jewellery was robbed at a remote stop as...
Two men have been jailed for the theft of a £4.8m gold toilet from from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the functional 18-carat, solid gold toilet, hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019. James ‘Jimmy’ Sheen, 40, pleaded guilty...
BBC Scott Johnston and Michael May deny a charge of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the UK Two men who deny smuggling more than 200kg of cocaine into the UK have gone on trial. Five other men previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle the drugs, worth more than £6m, into Cornwall, Truro Crown Court...
Police have appealed for witnesses after a single-vehicle crash in North Devon. Devon and Cornwall Pollice attended the scene on the B3233 near Instow, Bideford at about 10:50 BST on 6 June. Police said the collision involved a grey VW Golf GTI which collided with a tree. Two men in their 20s were subsequently taken...
Three men charged in connection with arson attacks on two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer will face trial in April of next year, a court has heard. Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Stanislav Carpiuc, 26 appeared together via video link from the high security Belmarsh prison in south-east London. Petro Pochynok, 34,...
Police have launched an appeal to identify two men after racially aggravated graffiti was sprayed onto a building. Devon and Cornwall Police said the graffiti in Totnes town centre was reported as criminal damage on 27 April. The force said the graffiti has since been cleaned off and the incident has been recorded as a...
Four men have appeared in court charged with murdering a man who died in a garden in Devon. The 24-year-old man died from a stab wound in the garden of a property at Ashfield Close, Exmouth, on Saturday. Police were called at about 00:45 BST to reports of an assault. The man died at the...
David Wallace-Wells is an opinion writer at the NY Times. He has a newsletter up today titled “Our Regression on Gender Is a Tragedy, Not Just a Political Problem.” Some of what he says is worth considering but ultimately he’s writing this from a solidly progressive point of view so I think he mostly winds...
Lucy Clarke-Billings BBC News London Fire Brigade Damage caused by a fire at an industrial unit in Leyton Arsonists were “livestreamed” as they set fire to a business supplying Starlink satellite equipment to Ukraine after being recruited by agents for the Russian mercenary group Wagner, a court has heard. Around £1m of damage was caused...
If you spend any amount of time on X, it’s impossible to miss the pattern. Democrats are angry. Depressed. They scream at the camera. They fantasize about violence against “oppressors.” They film themselves weeping, wailing, and gnashing their teeth. Just as you can be reasonably certain that anybody who flies an American flag is a...
Two Scottish men have been killed in a shooting at a bar in southern Spain, according to Spanish officials. A gunman fired several shots at Monaghans Bar in Fuengirola in Andalusia on Saturday evening. Javier Salas from the central government in the Malaga province, confirmed to BBC News both men were believed to be Scottish....