Ticket prices were lower in the WTA week, which will not yet be able to raise anything like the revenue of the long-established men’s event. Over 66,000 tickets were sold for the women’s tournament with the final three days sold out completely. The LTA says this makes it one of the highest attendances for a...
A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. The airline says 241 people on the plane were killed – one passenger, a British national, survived and is receiving treatment in hospital. Dramatic footage shows the aircraft taking off before coming down in a...
When protests flared up in Los Angeles over immigration raids, US President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the Californian city. Security forces and protesters faced off against each other in clashes that at times turned violent. Video from the unrest shows batons being used and armoured vehicles being deployed. Read full article at...
A man arrested over a “suspected act of terrorism” in Boulder, Colorado, has been charged with a federal hate crime and 16 state counts of attempted murder after officials say he started “setting people on fire”. The attack took place on Sunday when a group was gathered for an event called Run for their Lives,...
BBC Verify has examined videos of the incident in which a car drove into a crowd during Liverpool FC’s Premier League victory parade on Monday evening. Dozens have been injured, including four children, according to authorities. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has more. Verification by Benedict Garman, Joshua Cheetham, Richard Irvine-Brown and Tom Spencer. Graphics by...
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won the Canadian election. In his victory speech, Carney told supporters that “President Trump is trying to break” Canada so that “America can own” the country. In his concession speech, defeated Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said “hard lessons” had been learned from the election. This is how the unprecedented election...
EPA Customers wait at Lisbon’s airport The first sign of trouble Peter Hughes noticed was when his train to Madrid starting to slow down. Then the TV monitor and lights went off. Emergency lights switched on, but did not last, and the locomotive ground to a halt. Four hours later, Mr Hughes was still stuck...