Rahil Sheikh and Jenny Parks BBC Panorama Jade Harrison speaks about her accident at Hull Fair, in 2019 “I could feel myself slip. I just woke up and I was laid on the floor on my back and I remember thinking, what am I doing here? I started panicking.” Jade Harrison is describing the moment...
Doctors in India say 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of Thursday’s plane crash in Ahmedabad. The London-bound aircraft crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off killing all but one of the 242 passengers, a 40-year-old British man. Officials have been trying to establish how many people were killed on the ground...
With chaos and violence persisting “by design” at aid sites set up by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed organization in Gaza, the death toll at the distribution points rose Wednesday, as did the overall number of deaths in the enclave since Israel began bombarding the civilian population 20 months ago. At least 120 Palestinians were killed...
The death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than 200, officials say. There are still 500 people missing in the town in north-central Niger State, as a search mission continues. The deputy chairman of Mokwa Local Government, Musa Kimboku, told the BBC that rescue efforts...
AFP Firefighters were still working to extinguish blazes at the port on Monday, two days after the blast Iran’s interior minister has said negligence was a factor in the massive explosion and fire at the country’s largest container port, as the death toll rose to at least 70. Eskandar Momeni said Saturday’s blast at Shahid...
Vancouver’s Filipino community has been left in shock and mourning after a car ramming attack left 11 people dead on Saturday. The attack, which took place at the annual Lapu Lapu festival which celebrates Filipino culture, also left dozens wounded. The event’s organisers said the city’s tight-knit Filipino community is “grieving” and that the attack’s...
Yolande Knell BBC Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem Reuters Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 51,200 Palestinians have been killed At al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Alam Hirzallah resigns himself to a grim task: registering the deaths of the wife and two children of his grieving cousin. His family brought the bodies here on an...
A nine-year-old boy who got trapped between rocks at a New South Wales beach on Sunday has become the seventh person to drown in Australia over the Easter weekend. The majority of deaths were caused by strong swells washing people into the ocean from rocks. Two people remain missing. Steven Pearce, the CEO of Surf...
Has the last call come at the federal trough for public broadcasters? It depends on whether Congress acts to take the first steps outlined by DOGE, even though it may amount to baby steps at the moment. At issue are funds already appropriated by Congress for various agencies and purposes. The US DOGE Service has...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Dominican Republic: Search for survivors continues after nightclub roof collapse Hundreds of rescue workers in the Dominican Republic have been searching through the night for survivors of a roof collapse at a nightclub in the capital, Santo Domingo. At least 113 people died and more than 150 were injured in the...
Hattie McCann BBC News, Devon Nicholas Horne for Tamar Crossings The stories will be compiled into an exhibition about the Tamar Bridge A social history project is aiming to tell the stories of people who work in the toll booths on the Tamar Bridge. Fotonow CIC, based in the Royal William Yard in Plymouth, want...
Myanmar earthquake: Moment rescuers pull woman alive from rubble The number of people known to have died following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar has risen to more than 1,600, with people in some areas telling the BBC they had been left to dig through rubble for their loved ones with their bare hands. An acute...
The Secretary of State for Transport has approved increased charges for the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry. Tolls will rise for all vehicles, with fares for cars and vans to go up from £2.60 to £3.00, and fares for Tamar Tag holders to rise from £1.30 to £1.50. The decision was reached after a public...