Marianna Spring Social media investigations correspondent BBC/Getty Images Gabriel and Sebastian Shemirani watched with concern as their mother Kate rose to notoriety during the pandemic, eventually getting struck off as a nurse for promoting misinformation about Covid-19. Then, their sister Paloma was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors told her she had a high chance of survival...
A toddler was saved when her 11-year-old sister pulled her out of the path of a runaway electric cabin scooter in central China’s Henan town. CCTV footage obtained by Chinese state-run national broadcaster China Central Television shows the cabin scooter smashing through the glass doors of a restaurant, narrowly missing the toddler and smashing into...
The sister of a man who went missing nearly 22 years ago has resumed her mother’s hunt for answers after she died last year. Neil Nortrop, from Devon, was 32 when he disappeared from London on 10 June 2003. He had left his mother’s house in Brixham and travelled to Greenwich and Dartford to visit...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Reuters Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas was born in 1908 The world’s oldest person, Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, has died at the age of 116. Born on 8 June 1908 in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Inah Canabarro Lucas became a Catholic nun in her early...
Anna Varle BBC South West health correspondent The Barrett family Alice Barrett, 27, was fit and healthy until her third year of university when her condition deteriorated The sister of a woman with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is calling on the government to adequately fund its plan to overhaul care for patients with the debilitating...