An 81-year-old man drove his car down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome before getting stuck on the way down. One of Italy’s most recognisable monuments, the Spanish Steps have never been intended for vehicles to travel down. The driver tested negative for alcohol and told officers that he was on his way to work....
Stuart Maisner BBC News, South East RSPCA An RSPCA inspector used a car jack to try to free the deer A deer has been rescued after getting wedged between the metal railings of a garden gate. The animal got stuck after attempting to squeeze through the gate at a property in Banstead, Surrey, according to...
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes Reporting fromHo Chi Minh City BBC/ Lulu Luo Tung Linh, a 20-year-old Vietnamese college student, says she is excited for Vietnam’s future On a searing afternoon in Vietnam, Tung Linh declared she “basically knows nothing” about the bloody, decades-long war that pitted her country’s Communist-run North against the United States-backed South. “My grandparents...
George Sandeman and Giulia Imbert BBC News AFP Wikie, swimming with her calf in 2011, needs to be moved out of Marineland Antibes The French government has been urged to reconsider rehoming two stranded killer whales in Canada. Wikie, 23, and her 11-year-old son Keijo are currently held at Marineland Antibes, a marine zoo in...
Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images To leave or not to leave? China, home to more than a billion consumers, is Apple’s second-largest market Every iPhone comes with a label which tells you it was designed in California. While the sleek rectangle that runs many of our lives is indeed designed in the United States,...
The start of Sale’s Champions Cup tie against Toulouse was delayed by 40 minutes after a parachutist had to be rescued from the roof of the stadium. Two parachutists delivering the match ball landed safely on the pitch at the Stade de Toulouse, but their colleague went off course and was left dangling from the...
McLaren’s one chink of light in the race was the pit stops. Norris was about 1.5 seconds behind Verstappen as they neared, just about within theoretical range of the ‘undercut’, where a driver gains a position by stopping first and using the time gained on fresh tyres to be ahead by the time his rival...
Society’s move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say – fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins. The Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) experts looked back over hospital records in England since the Millennium. Procedures to remove foreign objects, including coins, from children’s throats, airways and...
A paraglider has been rescued after his wing got stuck in a tree. Police officers from Ottery St Mary and Exmouth responded to the incident after an experienced paraglider was caught by a gust of wind. In a post on Facebook, police confirmed that the man, who had taken off from White Cross on East...
James Delaney BBC Scotland News BBC Gavin Keith and Edith Stewart said they were not confident they would get home by tomorrow. Scotland fans have been stuck in Athens following the side’s 1-0 win over Greece after a fire near London’s Heathrow grounded all flights. Supporters returning to Scotland from the Greek capital have had...