Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram praised the “effort” that went into his newly unveiled statue, despite it being mocked on social media. The statue is situated outside the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad and depicts Akram in Pakistan’s 1999 World Cup kit, where they were runners-up. It captures Akram in his slingy bowling action but...
Kenya’s independent police oversight body has launched an investigation into the death of a man who had been detained “for false publication”, the police have said. Albert Ojwang was arrested in the western town of Homa Bay and then driven 350km (220 miles) to the capital, Nairobi, his father Meshack Opiyo told journalists. “While in...
The government is considering introducing tougher online safety measures to limit the amount of time children can spend on social media, the BBC understands. Proposals include a two-hour cap on the use of individual social media apps and a 22:00 curfew, as first reported by the Sunday People and the Mirror. Appearing on the BBC’s...
Defenders of Social Security are responding with critical anger to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that sides with the Trump administration in a legal battle over access to sensitive data of tens of millions of Americans by the Department of Government Efficiency, the government-eviscerating group first spearheaded by right-wing libertarian and...
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Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Getty Images Complaints about substandard living conditions in social housing are now more than five times higher than they were five years ago, a new report says Complaints about substandard living conditions in social housing in England are more than five times higher than five years ago, according to the housing...
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Bloomberg via Getty Images On Tuesday, Harvard University students held a protest in support of international students US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered embassies to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social media vetting of such applicants. In a copy of a memo...
Rubio pointed to Trump’s supposed “antisemitism” orders in a cable announcing upcoming guidance. The Trump administration has put a pause on new student visa application interviews as it prepares to expand its surveillance of the social media activity of those seeking to study in the U.S., Politico reports, in the latest instance of the administration’s...
SPECIAL REPORT Campaigners compel Exeter City Council to reconsider Northbrook pool closure with 2,250-strong resident petition Exeter City Council is under pressure to reconsider its plan to close Northbrook Swimming Pool after community campaigners triggered a full council debate on the closure by raising a petition imploring it to keep the pool open that was...
Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the official police account was compromised, with sexually explicit material and false information that the president had died being posted. The police dissociated itself from the information and...
Verminous, lame-dumb cluck New Jersey governor Phil Murphy – he of the rodential, yellow-fanged overbite, off-shore wind obsession, and illegal migrant home sanctuary – was in an expansive mood at the end of April. He got to participate in a bit of performative theatrics that allowed the Green grift-addicted chief executive to pretend he gave...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC The Seabury Hotel in Torquay is being demolished to make way for social housing A derelict hotel in a seaside resort is being demolished, with social housing to be built in its place. Torbay Council agreed to borrow up to £20m to fund the Hotels to Homes project....
An internal document bolsters warnings that the hunt for fraud is a pretext for slashing Social Security benefits. An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000 — a rate of 0.0018%....
Mid Devon District Council has been charging thousands of social housing tenants the wrong rents for over twenty years in what a government regulator has judged are “serious failings” that have resulted in dozens of evictions. A judgement by the Regulator of Social Housing found that Mid Devon District Council had incorrectly applied the Rent...
A failure to fix England’s social care system is costing the country in financial and human terms, cross-party MPs have warned. Doing nothing to reform social care for older and disabled adults is an “active” and “untenable” decision, according to a report from Health and Social Care Select Committee. It says successive governments have put...