Sarah Rainsford Eastern and Southern Europe correspondent EPA Sergei Tikhanovsky was so ematiated after his release that even his daughter didn’t recognise him Sergei Tikhanovsky has barely spoken for more than five years. All that time he was held in solitary confinement in a high security Belarusian prison for daring to stand up to a...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an observer and escort for people with immigration hearings in recent weeks. In this case, while accompanying...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Shakira Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour has taken more than $150m in ticket sales Deep in the bowels of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, a note is taped to the door of Shakira’s production office. “Please come back later… unless you’re actually on fire.” The handwritten pink scrawl suggests a...
Trent Alexander-Arnold is unveiled as a Real Madrid player and impresses the crowd, including club president Florentino Perez, by speaking Spanish and saying “it’s a dream come true”. READ MORE: Why Alexander-Arnold is not allowed to wear number 66 for Real Madrid Read full article at source...
Watch: Leisure centre set on fire in third night of violence in Northern Ireland A man who was inside a leisure centre in County Antrim as it was attacked on Wednesday night has spoken of the fear felt by customers and staff. Northern Ireland Assembly Member Danny Donnelly said Larne Leisure Centre was being used...
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had a “good conversation” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a call about Ukraine’s recent drone attack and Iran. Following Ukraine’s major drone attack deep inside Russia, Trump reported that Putin told him Russia “will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields”. Trump also...
Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find distressing. A Kenyan activist has told the BBC that he is “struggling to be alive” after allegedly being sexually tortured in detention in Tanzania last month. Boniface Mwangi said he had decided to speak despite the “shame and guilt of being sodomised with all manner...
Vinnie O’Dowd & Adam Hale BBC News Marianna Spring BBC Disinformation reporter BBC Peter Cunningham had his picture circulated online in the aftermath of the incident A man wrongly identified on social media as being the driver of a car which ploughed into crowds of people in Liverpool says he has moved his children out...
Peter Harris BBC Look North BBC Bruce Springsteen said he had been following news coverage about the strike Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has spoken for the first time about his decision to donate thousands of dollars to the families of striking miners. The singer invited women from support groups backstage at a concert at St...
That “little bit” of progress was the start of a long journey. Suppiah, with help from the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), a team of experts and his girlfriend and her family, realised something had to change. “You do know that you have to eat and you have to get better, otherwise your organs will fail...
Pope Leo XIV’s brother Louis says nothing will be the same again after his appointment. Read full article at source...
Coleen Rooney has spoken of her “relief” after the latest part of her legal battle with Rebekah Vardy came to an end, saying she looks forward “to moving on” with her life. On Tuesday, a judge said Mrs Vardy must pay more than £1.4m of Mrs Rooney’s legal costs after the pair’s “Wagatha Christie” libel...
Leicester striker Jamie Vardy tells Match of the Day host Gary Lineker what his time at the club has meant to him after he scored his 199th goal for the Foxes. Vardy, who will end his 13-year stay with Leicester when his contract expires in the summer, has three games left this season to reach...
I have to say that was one of the best hours I’ve ever had glued to the tube. We watch Jesse Watters every night – he really is pretty entertaining – but we had no idea that the little secret assignment he’d alluded to when explaining his absence was going to make for such an...
BBC Eni Aluko said she was “past the point of asking nicely” for women and girls to be treated with respect A broadcaster who was targeted on social media by ex-footballer Joey Barton has said she hoped a judgement that his posts were defamatory would make people think twice about what they said online. Former...