BBC Correspondent Roxy Gagdekar reports from the scene of a plane crash in Ahmedabad, India. The London bound flight was reported to have been carrying 242 passengers. Air India said the flight was carrying 169 Indian nationals, as well as 53 Britons, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals. Read full article at source...
At least four people have died in a wave of bomb and gun attacks in south-western Colombia, according to local media reports. Two police officers were said to be among those killed in the attacks, which targeted Cali, the country’s third-largest city, and several nearby towns. Car bombs, motorcycle bombs, rifle fire and a suspected...
Riyah Collins BBC Newsbeat Shutterstock Kyle Ashman says he had “no involvement” in the violence A Love Islander axed from the show after it emerged he had been arrested over a fight at a funeral has suggested he could return to the series. Kyle Ashman, 23, was due to enter the villa on Monday for...
Vladimir Putin leads commemorations as Moscow marks its annual parade. Read full article at source...
Moyes also responded to recent comments by Abdoulaye Doucoure, who is one of 13 players out of contract at the club this summer. Midfielder Doucoure, who has two caps for Mali, spoke on former goalkeeper Ben Foster’s podcast this week and said there had been “no talks” over a new deal. The 32-year-old went on...
Donald Trump has ordered his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the infamous former prison on an island near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. President Trump said that “for too long America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders”, in a message on his Truth Social site on Sunday. The idea has...
Ukraine said it hit a drone command unit in the Kursk region, amid reports of fresh attempts to cross into Russia. Sunday’s attack on the unit was located near the Russian village of Tyotkino, according to the Ukrainian general staff. Multiple Russian military bloggers also reported that Ukrainian forces had attempted to cross into the...
The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has reported three alleged incidents of racism in a Republic of Ireland Under-15s match. The Republic were playing the United Arab Emirates at the Torneo Delle Nazioni tournament in Italy on Thursday. Archie Quinn scored twice in a 2-0 win, but the FAI says three separate comments, made to...
Police in Hong Kong have arrested the father and brother of US-based pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok for allegedly helping with her finances, according to media reports. It is the first time the relatives of an “absconder” have been charged under the territory’s security law, Reuters news agency said. The authorities accused Ms Kwok, 26, of...
US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is leaving his post with the Trump adminstration, according to media reports. Waltz, who was the president’s principal adviser on national security issues, has had a difficult tenure amid accusations that senior officials used insecure methods of communication to conduct government business. Last month, he took responsibility for a...
Harvard University President Alan Garber has apologised following the release of internal reports into antisemitic and anti-Muslim prejudice at America’s oldest university. The reports included testimony from students who described feeling alienated and pressured to conceal their identity from their peers and educators. In response to the findings, Harvard pledged to review its academic offerings...
The vast majority of people diagnosed with a measles infection this year were unvaccinated, the CDC reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced late last week that the number of measles cases across the United States is approaching 900, with most of those who have contracted the virus being unvaccinated children. Measles...
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information about US air strikes on Yemen in a second private group on the Signal app, the BBC’s US partner CBS has confirmed with sources familiar with the messages. The messages, sent on 15 March, included flight schedules for American F/A-18 Hornets carrying out strikes on Houthi targets. The...
Ukraine’s military has reported Russian drone attacks on several regions overnight, just hours after the end of a 30-hour “Easter truce” declared by Moscow. Ukraine’s air force issued raid alerts for the Kyiv region, as well as Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia. In the southern city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said “explosions were...
The scheduled dates and location of Fyre Festival 2 have been thrown into doubt, according to US media reports. The reboot of the 2017 Fyre Festival – which made international headlines, sparked a hit Netflix documentary and resulted in organiser Billy McFarland going to jail for fraud – was due to take place in Mexico...