BBC News A member of US Vice-President JD Vance’s security team has been suspended and is under investigation for allegedly leaking sensitive information, the US Secret Service (USSS) has said. The specifics of what was leaked have not been released, but the Secret Service said their agent faced a “potential criminal inquiry”, involving allegations of […]
BBC News “There is deep economic dissatisfaction and distress, which has translated into a lack of hope about the future,” Aiyar says. “This could reflect growing exhaustion with a government that has been in power for a long time. Its failure to deliver on the promises it built its reputation on may have reached a […]
BBC News Charli XCX was supposed to be taking a break. Her sixth album, Brat, was the sort of record you could genuinely call era-defining, without being accused of overstating its significance. Experimental but accessible songs like Guess, Apple and 360 propelled the star to new heights of fame. Her album was co-opted into Kamala […]
BBC News Scientists in France say they have discovered the building blocks of the incredible diversity of birdsong. A team analysed the songs of more than 100,000 songbirds and revealed that the world’s birdsongs are composed of eight fundamental types of sound that the researchers call “motifs”. Birdsong all around the world, they say, is […]
BBC News Luke Littler’s World Matchplay title defence continued with a straightforward 16-7 quarter-final win over Josh Rock in Blackpool. Rock initially kept pace with the world number one as the players traded breaks to reach 5-5. But after 19-year-old Littler reeled off five legs in a row, there proved to be no way back […]
BBC News “It was a complete honest mistake,” Christopher said. “I obviously didn’t mistakenly leave it up there, I didn’t forget – it was a mistake in the fact I thought I was doing the right thing with people telling me it was ‘awesome’ and ‘cool’. “I should never have left anything up the mountain. […]
