BBC News Police said they received numerous calls after multi-storey scaffolding along Cheung Sha Wan Road collapsed in powerful winds on Saturday. No injuries have been reported. Typhoon Noul made landfall in southern China on Sunday morning, lashing the region with strong winds and heavy rain and forcing Hong Kong airport to cancel around 360 […]
BBC News Andy Burnham has told the BBC “the NHS will collapse” if social care is not reformed but said he could not put a timeline on changes. In his first major interview since becoming prime minister, Burnham said he would not want to leave office without bringing in “substantial change” to the social care […]
BBC News UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham told Laura Kuenssberg his dog Axel will be staying in Greater Manchester and will not be moving to No 10 Downing Street. Burnham revealed he does not think his poodle-mix would get along with Larry the cat, who has lived at the residence for 15 years. Watch Panorama […]
BBC News But when it comes to the gravest matters that prime ministers have to deal with – security, power around the world, or the country’s long-term economic stability, we’re perhaps yet to see if Burnham’s ambition for No 10 is accompanied by truly new big ideas that match the scale of his rhetoric. There […]
BBC News Around 77,000 hectares have been affected by the fires in Spain, minister for ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, said on Sunday. She added that the wildfire burning in the Ávila region is the largest in the country’s recent history. Among the residents evacuating surrounding areas is Olga Congacha, 50, who had to flee her […]
BBC News Four men have been charged with murder after a 24-year-old man was killed in Leicester. Arad Niakan died after being stabbed on Wednesday in De Montfort Place, off London Road, Leicestershire Police said. The four men charged with murder are Talha Satar, 21, of Stoughton Street South, Spinney Hills; Said Mahamed, 20, of […]
BBC News Shein says it swung to a quarterly loss as its sales slowed after US President Donald Trump removed an import duty exemption on small packages. It also comes as uncertainty remains over the tit-for-tat US-China tariffs wars, which is currently paused. The fast-fashion giant, which has its headquarters in Singapore but was founded […]
BBC News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he planned to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City this autumn, despite the city’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, making threats to arrest him. Mamdani walked back that threat last week, acknowledging he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu on a warrant issued by the […]
BBC News He works as a digger driver in the family construction business when not surfing. “I’ve learned how to do everything with one leg, except to be able to use a wheelbarrow,” said Williams with a wry smile. “When I turned 18 I wheelchaired my way into the kitchen and said we’re heading off […]
BBC News By the early 2000s, British Asian culture was breaking into the mainstream. In the middle of that shift was Bobby Friction, who now presents on BBC Asian Network. “The revolutions of the 1990s paved the way for the riches of the early noughties,” he remembers. ” ‘Goodness Gracious Me’, for us, was monumental […]
