BBC News Rescue teams in Indonesia have been searching for survivors of Saturday’s major earthquake which left at least 47 people dead. The magnitude 7.7 quake struck the island of Flores shortly before 05:00 (22:00 GMT on Friday) and had a depth of 15km, Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency stated. Preliminary reports indicate hundreds of […]
BBC News It feels inconsiderate of Ariana Grande to bring her Eternal Sunshine tour to the UK at the tail end of the year’s fifth heatwave. Haven’t we suffered enough already? But the fans packed into London’s O2 arena on Saturday night didn’t seem to care about the heat and the sweat. They came ready […]
BBC News Australian woman Erin Patterson was found guilty last year of murdering three relatives and attempting to kill one other by serving them a meal containing death cap mushrooms. She was sentenced to life in prison, but now she’s back in court this week trying to get her conviction overturned. The BBC’s Australia correspondent […]
BBC News Incidents of sharks biting humans are incredibly rare, but at least three influencers have been bitten by the animals in less than a year. Scientists say they’re increasingly concerned about the rise in social media videos showing people swimming too close to sharks, touching or even riding them. “I’m seeing these videos every […]
BBC News Prof Vaibhav Modgil, an andrologist and consultant urological surgeon for the NHS in Manchester, has seen these men coming into hospital after botched procedures. “When it does happen, it can be devastating for the patient,” he says. He recalls seeing men with “skin necrosis, where an area of the skin dies off it […]
BBC News Journalism student Kieran Miller was worried about money, but he compared student bank accounts and chose one that gave him a free 16-25 Railcard, and signed up for student discount schemes. Though it might be exciting to see your first maintenance loan payment hit your bank account in one big lump sum, Kieran, […]
BBC News No 10: Full Confidence is not the only game based around Westminster’s wheeling and dealing. Fantasy Parliament, external is a browser-based game designed by another UK-based developer, Evan Roberts, which lets players draft their own fantasy league of real-world MPs, scoring points based on their real-life media coverage. With the strategy game’s Policy […]
BBC News Barnard, who’s from Norwich, says the driving bug was passed down from his father, who was a karting driver in his younger years. He rose through the ranks of British and European karting, before his talent helped him secure backing to get through Formula 3 and 2. Barnard finally secured a seat in […]
BBC News The number of unauthorised Gypsy and traveller sites is on the rise, with developments often carried out over Bank Holiday weekends. Since April, sites in Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and elsewhere have been transformed, prompting legal battles and local dismay. In January, the number of unauthorised traveller caravans – those without planning permission […]
