EPA The BBC says it has decided not to broadcast a documentary about doctors working in Gaza, due to impartiality concerns it has surrounding the production. Gaza: Doctors Under Attack was commissioned by the BBC but produced by an independent production company. It was originally scheduled for broadcast in February, but has not yet aired...
PA Media The Princess of Wales has pulled out from a planned attendance at Royal Ascot. Catherine, who is making a gradual return to public life after her cancer diagnosis last year, was said to be disappointed to miss the sporting occasion in Berkshire, where she would have appeared in the carriage procession. She was...
Baroness Louise Casey’s report into group-based sexual exploitation pulls no punches in its description of the failures at all levels to tackle what it calls one of the most horrendous crimes in our society. Now the question many will be asking is will her report bring about meaningful change? Certainly, for survivors of abuse, who...
Guy Delauney BBC Balkans correspondent Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images Festival organisers say their support for student protests has led to funding being pulled One of Europe’s largest music festivals is pulling out of Serbia with organisers blaming “undemocratic pressures”. Exit festival will hold its 25th anniversary edition in the country between 10 and 13 July, but...
Rwanda has said it is pulling out of a central African regional bloc after a diplomatic row over its involvement in the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country was supposed to take up the chairman role of the Economic Community of Central African States (Eccas), which rotates between its...
Major U.S. firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has pulled out of its involvement in the U.S. and Israel’s supposed humanitarian aid scheme in Gaza as human rights groups have warned that the operation is actually a “death trap” that has led to hundreds of casualties so far. BCG withdrew its ground operation team from Tel...
Aylo, the company which runs a number of pornographic websites, including Pornhub, is to stop operating in France from Wednesday. It is in reaction to a French law requiring porn sites to take extra steps to verify their users’ ages. An Aylo spokesperson said the law was a privacy risk and assessing people’s ages should...
Thames Water has suffered a major setback in its attempt to secure its future after US private equity giant KKR pulled out of plans to buy the company. KKR had been selected as the preferred partner to inject £4bn of much-needed cash into the UK’s biggest water company. The setback increases the possibility that the...
Emma Saunders Culture reporter BBC/Hera/Enda Bowe Byron is played by Ellis Howard, who has also appeared in Netflix teen horror Red Rose What It Feels Like For A Girl. A fairly innocuous title for a teen TV series, right? But the stars of BBC Three’s new drama say it’s taken on a deeper resonance since...
Did you know that the FDA approval process for the COVID vaccines does not require that the shots be safe and effective? It doesn’t, and never has. All that has been required is that the vaccines be proven to increase antibodies, which is a very low and atypical standard. Vaccine approval for people over 65–those...
Credit my friend and colleague Katie Pavlich for this disappointing scoop. Rather than continue to fight down to the wire and risk a judicial appointment for US Attorney in Washington DC, Donald Trump has decided to throw in the towel. Ed Martin, a favorite among Trump’s MAGA followers, will instead land in another role at...
Bukayo Saka pulls a goal back for Arsenal against PSG during their Champions League semi-final second leg defeat. Read full article at source...
Ong Ye Kung/TikTok Health minister Ong Ye Kung (centre, in purple shirt) is known for his social media savviness The TikTok video begins with Singapore’s health minister Ong Ye Kung smiling at the camera while sitting on a park bench. “So no-one told you life was gonna be this way,” the instantly recognisable theme song...
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Nintendo Nintendo says it will no longer open pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the United States next week, following the introduction of steep tariffs on exports from Japan. The firm unveiled the much-anticipated console on Wednesday, the same day US President Donald Trump announced his sweeping new global tariffs. It...