BBC News The chairman of corporate giant SK Group has been ordered by a South Korean court to pay his ex-wife 944bn won (£483m; $644m) in a case that local media has called the “divorce of the century“. The award, which still needs to be finalised, is below the initial 1.38tn won that chairman Chey […]
BBC News In 2014, when the Commonwealth Games were last in Glasgow, a little-known teenage gymnast, Claudia Fragapane, became one of Britain’s breakthrough stars as she won four gold medals on her debut. Twelve years on, with the competition returning to the same city, another Bristol-born teenager is hoping to one day follow in Fragapane’s […]
BBC News The US military says it has launched strikes on Iran for the 13th consecutive night, with Iranian state media saying four people have been killed and five injured. It comes as US President Donald Trump said he would use Iranian assets held by the US to pay for “any damages to Ships, Cargo, […]
BBC News Authorities in France have ordered the evacuation of the entirety of the Cap Ferret peninsula (Lège-Cap Ferret) in the south-west of France, with hundreds of people escaping the area by boat. The tourism hot spot is being evacuated as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire that has raged in the Gironde region for […]
BBC News Socceroos World Cup star Cristian Volpato has allegedly tested positive for cocaine after police twice stopped him for speeding in Sydney on the same night. The 22-year-old Australia midfielder was stopped in a BMW Coupe on the Anzac Bridge at 11:05pm local time on Thursday night after he was caught travelling between 86-94km/h […]
BBC News Witnesses say a heroic day-tripper managed to haul two children back to shore during an incident where a mother and daughter drowned. Beverly Smit, 60, described the unnamed rescuer swimming out to sea three times as the tragedy unfolded in West Mersea, near Colchester, on Wednesday evening. Shally Rahman, 41, and Samiha Rahman, […]
BBC News The biggest complaint from fans is scheduling. In 2025-26, the WSL replaced the Sunday 18:45 kick-off time with more noon matches, but this also proved unpopular. “For an away day it’s horrible,” explains Arsenal fan Major. “You’ve got fans leaving at three o’clock in the morning or you’re going the night before and […]
BBC News Families in Venezuela are still searching for the remains of their loved ones, lost amid the rubble of flattened apartment buildings that line the coast of La Guaira, the region worst-hit by twin earthquakes on 24 June. Government officials say the death toll has surpassed 5,300, though estimates of the number still missing […]
BBC News Almost 15 years ago, Canada agreed to fully pay for the bridge’s construction to bypass US political resistance and get the project, seen as necessary infrastructure to fix a trade bottleneck, moving. The bridge will help support more than C$1bn ($710m; £530m) worth of goods that pass through Windsor-Detroit crossing each day. When […]
